Stories that make history : Mexico through Elena Poniatowska's crónicas /

Stories that make history : Mexico through Elena Poniatowska's crónicas /

"From covering the massacre of students at Tlatelolco in 1968 and the 1985 earthquake to the Zapatista rebellion in 1994 and the disappearance of forty-three students in 2014, Elena Poniatowska has been one of the most important chroniclers of Mexican social, cultural, and political life. In St...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephen, Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Poniatowska, Elena.
Poniatowska, Elena > Influence.
Poniatowska, Elena > Criticism and interpretation.
Since 1900
Journalism and social justice > Mexico.
Women authors, Mexican > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, Mexican > 20th century > Biography.
Women journalists > Mexico > Biography.
Women political activists > Mexico > Biography.
Political activists > Mexico > Biography.
Reportage literature, Mexican > History and criticism.
Social movements > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Mexico > History > 1988-
Mexico > History > 20th century.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On testimony, social memory, and strategic emotional political communities in Elena Poniatowska's crónicas
  • Mexico City's growing critical public : Mexican news and publishing, 1959-
  • The 1968 student movement and massacre in Mexico
  • A history we cannot forget : the 1985 earthquake, civil society, and a new political future
  • Engaging with the EZLN as a writer and public intellectual
  • Amanecer en el Zócalo : crónica, diary, and gendered political analysis
  • ¡Regrésenlos! The forty-three disappeared students from Ayotzinapa
  • Conclusion: Telling stories, making history.

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