Contemporary Mexican Chronicle

Ignacio Corona is Assistant Professor of Spanish at The Ohio State University and the author of Después de Tlatelolco: Las narrativas políticas en México (1976–1990). Beth E. Jörgensen is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester and the author of The Writing of Elena Poniatowska: Engaging Dialogues.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionIgnacio Corona and Beth E. Jorgensen Part I. Chronicle Writing: Reflections on Contemporary Practice 1. On the Chronicle in MexicoCarlos Monsivais 2. How I Started Writing Chronicles and Why I Never StoppedElena Poniatowska 3. Patience and UrgencyDante Medina 4. Border(line) Texts: The Chronicle, Writing in the OpenRossana Reguillo 5. Questioning the ChronicleJose Joaquin Blanco, Vicente Lenero, and Juan Villoro Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre 6. Matters of Fact: The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle and/as Nonfiction NarrativeBeth E. Jorgensen 7. Play on Words: Chronicling the EssayLinda Egan 8. At the Intersection: Chronicle and EthnographyIgnacio Corona 9. Modernismo, Journalism, and the Ethics of Writing: Manuel Gutierrz Najera's "La hija del aire"Anibal Gonzalez 10. Writing the City: The Chronicles of Salvador NovoMary K. Long 11. Walking in the Modern City: Subjectivity and Cultural Contacts in the Urban Cronicas of Salvador Novo and Carlos MonsivaisJuan G. Gelpi 12. Christina Pacheco's Narratives: Multimedia ChroniclesDawn Slack Afterword IntroductionIgnacio Coronoa and Beth E. Jorgensen The Rainforest Chronicles of Subcomandante MarcosCynthia Steele Contributors' BiographiesIndex

"It is amazing that there are almost no studies of the genre of the 'crónica.' The radical reformulation of the essay format and sharp analytic commentaries about contemporary Mexico have made crónica one of the most signal genres of the late twentieth century. This book provides a thorough introduction, tracing the crónica's historical roots, giving a very well conceived argument about the contributions of the contemporary crónica, along with close readings of specific texts. This volume fills an important gap and will become a standard reference." — Debra A. Castillo, author of Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction