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The National Body in Mexican Literature : Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (1st ed. 2015)

Part of the Literatures of the Americas series
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The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity.

It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Leñero, Juan Rulfo, among others.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
1349576611 / 9781349576616
Paperback / softback
23/01/2016
United Kingdom
199 pages, X, 199 p.
140 x 216 mm