Plaza of Sacrifices, Mexico ‘68. Review of Elaine Carey's <em>Plaza of Sacrifices. Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico</em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2005)

Authors

  • Ryan Long University of Oklahoma

Keywords:

Latin American History

Abstract

Elaine Carey’s study of the Mexican Student Movement of 1968 and the government’s brutal response to it provides English language readers with their first book-length account of arguably the most important single event of Mexico’s post-Revolutionary history. As Carey convincingly demonstrates, both the massive public demonstrations, which brought hundreds of thousands of Mexican students and sympathizers to the streets and plazas of their nation’s capital, and the government’s shocking reaction, which culminated in the murder of hundreds and the imprisonment of at least a thousand more on October 2 in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza, transformed Mexican society and politics.

Author Biography

Ryan Long, University of Oklahoma

Ryan Long es profesor en el Departamento de Lenguas Modernas en la Universidad de Oklahoma. Obtuvo su doctorado en Duke University en 2002.
Tiene en preparación un libro Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel and the National-Popular State, en el que estudia construcciones literarias de la totalidad
nacional mexicana en el contexto de la transición política. Ha publicado varios artículos, entre ellos “Lecumberri, Fact, and Fiction: The Prison Writings of
Álvaro Mutis and Luis González de Alba,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (40.2 2006), “Narrative, Criticism, and Politics: Negotiating Latin American Transition,” Latin American Research Review (40.2, 2005), y con Hester Baer, “Transnational Cinema and the Mexican State in Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también,” South Central Review (21.3 2004, en un número especial sobre “Memoria y Nación en México contemporáneo” que coordinó con José Villalobos.

Published

2007-01-01

How to Cite

Long, R. (2007). Plaza of Sacrifices, Mexico ‘68. Review of Elaine Carey’s <em>Plaza of Sacrifices. Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico</em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2005). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 4(2), 279–282. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/292

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