Subterranean space in contemporary Mexico City literature / Liesbeth François.
2021
PN56.U52
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Title
Subterranean space in contemporary Mexico City literature / Liesbeth François.
Author
François, Liesbeth, author.
ISBN
9783030694562 (electronic bk.)
3030694569 (electronic bk.)
9783030694555
3030694550
3030694569 (electronic bk.)
9783030694555
3030694550
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-69456-2 doi
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PN56.U52
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.93355
Summary
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 capitals history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the cronica) 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.
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Includes index.
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Hispanic urban studies.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.