A Latin American Existentialist Ethos : Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy.

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merrin, Stephanie
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Ser.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252482
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translations
  • Chapter One Engaging Existentialism: Transformative Possibilities and Local Agendas
  • An Engaging Existentialism
  • A Literature of Possibilities
  • Mexican Platforms
  • A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy
  • Chapter Two The Mexican Existentialist Ethos
  • Part One
  • Movers and Shakers
  • The Mexican Existentialist Arena
  • Part Two
  • Hiperión and Values
  • Conclusion: Weaponizing Lo Mexicano?
  • Chapter Three The Seminal Mexican Existentialism of Rodolfo Usigli's Theater
  • Existentializing Dynamics
  • Philosophical Drives
  • Political Drives
  • From the Family to the Revolutionary Family
  • The Mexican Existentialist Hero: Pragmatic Authenticity and Emilio Uranga's Zozobra
  • Chapter Four Excavating Comala: The Existentialist Juan Rulfo, the Grupo Hiperión, and Lo Mexicano in Pedro Páramo (1955)
  • An Existentialist Rulfo?
  • An Unresolved Past
  • Excavating Lo Indígena
  • Deep Mexico and Racial Politics
  • Deep Magic: Finale
  • Chapter Five "Christs for All Passions": José Revueltas's El luto humano [Human Mourning]
  • "Le daban duro con un palo y duro" [They struck him hard with a stick, so hard] (César Vallejo, Poemas humanos, "Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca")
  • "Su cadáver estaba lleno de mundo" [His corpse was full of world] (César Vallejo, España, aparta de mí este cáliz, "III")
  • "propensiones de trinidad" [propensities for trinity] (César Vallejo, Trilce, "V")
  • "¡Ay la llaga en color de ropa antigua, / cómo se entreabre y huele a miel quemada!" [Ay, wound in the color of ancient garb, how it opens just a bit and smells of burnt honey] (César Vallejo, Los heraldos negros, "Absoluta").
  • "¡Ah querer, éste, el mío, éste, el mundial, / interhumano y parroquial ... !" [Ah to love, this, mine, this, the world's, interhuman and parochial] (César Vallejo, Poemas humanos)
  • "quiero / saber de estar siquiera" [I want at least to know about being here] (César Vallejo, Trilce "XLIX")
  • Chapter Six Rosario Castellanos's Freedom
  • The Eternal Feminine
  • Castellanos-Guerra-Sartre
  • Simone-Jean-Paul-Olga
  • Castellanos-Beauvoir-Sartre
  • Coda: Mexican Mitsein
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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