Subterranean space in contemporary Mexico city literature 1st ed.

Author

• François, Liesbeth

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030694562

Series

Hispanic urban studies

Subject(s)

• LITERATURE, MODERN
• MEXICO--MEXICO CITY
• UNDERGROUND AREAS IN LITERATURE

Notes

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Abstract

This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published after 1985, the year of the deadliest earthquake in the capital’s history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the crónica) and demonstrate the crucial role played by the underground in contemporary imaginings of the megalopolis, as it condenses and confronts the tensions that run through them. This central idea is developed through four analytical chapters focusing on the political, ecological, historical, and aesthetic dimension of subterranean imaginaries.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xi, 260 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction --
2. Theorizing the Urban Underground in Latin America --
3. Subsoil Politics: Rewriting Resistance --
4. Underground Forces: Being in and of the Earth --
5. Excavating Time: Literary Archeologies of the Present --
6. Writing from Below: The Aesthetic Abyss --
7. Conclusion.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00847/21	809.93355 Fra S	Online !	Available