{"product_id":"stories-that-make-history-9781478014645","title":"Stories That Make History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLynn Stephen examines the writing of Elena Poniatowska, showing how it shaped Mexican political discourse and provides a unique way of understanding contemporary Mexican history, politics, and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStories That Make History\u003c\/i\u003e brings us one of Mexico's most admired anthropologists examining the impact of one of Mexico's most prominent public intellectuals. A cross between Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, Elena Poniatowska has been one of the central chroniclers of Mexican social, cultural, and political life. Lynn Stephen shows us the powerful influence Poniatowska has had in shaping our understanding of modern Mexican history.” -- Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e“The fortuitous pairing of perhaps Mexico's most beloved, enduring, and influential writer with one of its most prolific and accomplished international scholars of social and cultural movements gives rise to an extraordinary collaboration. This engrossing volume will be required reading for anyone seriously interested in Mexican journalism and literature, history and history-making, and the formation of social memory.” -- Gilbert M. Joseph, coeditor of * The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen enriches each chapter with extensive interviews with Poniatowska (whom she describes as a good friend) and the writer’s close associates. . . .  Setting aside the skepticism characteristic of postmodern social science, Stephen wholeheartedly embraces Poniatowska’s engaged and immersive style of reporting and its contributions to building a 'strategic emotional political community' of social justice advocates who identify with the victims of Mexican history.\" -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen illustrates Poniatowska’s unique position of being both a participant and an activist, a duality present in her \u003ci\u003ecrónicas\u003c\/i\u003e, which has placed her in a position of privilege, one she uses to critically inform her predominantly working-class readers. As an accomplished author and public intellectual, \u003ci\u003ela Poni’s\u003c\/i\u003e firsthand accounts of important historical events in Mexican history fill a lacuna in which state-sponsored violence or government neglect were the official and inadequate responses. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals.\" -- C. A. Hernandez * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStories That Make History\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, historians of Latin America and, in terms of use in the classroom, it would work well with fourth year undergraduate students and graduate students more broadly.\" -- María L. O. Muñoz * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. On Testimony, Social Memory, and Strategic Emotional Political Communities in Elena Poniatowska's Crónicas  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mexico City's Growing Critical Public: News and Publishing, 1959–1985  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. The 1968 Student Movement and Massacre  60\u003cbr\u003e 3. A History We Cannot Forget: The 1985 Earthquake, Civil Society, and a New Political Future  110\u003cbr\u003e 4. Engaging with the EZLN as a Writer and Public Intellectual  151\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eAmanecer en el Zócalo\u003c\/i\u003e: Crónica, Diary, and Gendered Political Analysis  197\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003e¡Regrésenlos!\u003c\/i\u003e The Forty-Three Disappeared Students from Ayotzinapa  228\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Telling Stories, Making History  247\u003cbr\u003e Notes  257\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  281\u003cbr\u003e Index  303","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408996442455,"sku":"9781478014645","price":19.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014645.jpg?v=1730505019","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stories-that-make-history-9781478014645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}