The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Chronicle Writing: Reflections on Contemporary Practice
On the Chronicle in Mexico	p. 25
How I Started Writing Chronicles and Why I Never Stopped	p. 37
Patience and Urgency	p. 47
Border(line) Texts: The Chronicle, Writing in the Open	p. 51
Questioning the Chronicle	p. 61
Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre
Matters of Fact: The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle and/as Nonfiction Narrative	p. 71
Play on Words: Chronicling the Essay	p. 95
At the Intersection: Chronicle and Ethnography	p. 123
Modernismo, Journalism, and the Ethics of Writing: Manuel Gutierrez Najera's "La hija del aire"	p. 157
Writing the City: The Chronicles of Salvador Novo	p. 181
Walking in the Modern City: Subjectivity and Cultural Contacts in the Urban Cronicas of Salvador Novo and Carlos Monsivais	p. 201
Cristina Pacheco's Narratives: Multimedia Chronicles	p. 221
Afterword
Introduction	p. 243
The Rainforest Chronicles of Subcomandante Marcos	p. 245
Contributor's Biographies	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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