Description
Book SynopsisThe first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.
While Paz’s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro’s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and po
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Introduction: Uncivil Wars
- Chapter Two. All in the Family: Paz and Garro Rewrite Mexico’s Cultural Memory
- Chapter Three. War at Home: Betrayals of/in the Mexican Revolution
- Chapter Four. Love and War Don’t Mix: Garro and Paz in the Spanish Civil War
- Chapter Five. Tlatelolco: The Undeclared War
- Chapter Six. From Civil War to Gender War: The Battle of the Sexes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
