Exorcising the Lettered City: The Literature of the Villista Revolution. A Review of Max Parra's <em>Writing Pancho Villa’s Revolution: Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico</em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2005)

  • Pedro García-Caro University of Oregon
Keywords Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American History, Latin American Politics
Keywords Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American History, Latin American Politics

Abstract

Parra’s study of the competing representations of the Villista camp by the lettered city is a necessary cultural intervention that carefully sifts through a variety of mediated imageries to offer new mappings and a new critical approach to post-revolutionary Mexican culture.

Author Biography

Pedro García-Caro, University of Oregon
Pedro García-Caro se doctoró en la Universidad de Londres en 2004 con una tesis titulada “Dismantling the Nation: History as Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon”. Tras enseñar literatura y traducción en la Universidad de Oxford (2000-2003) dio clases en el MIT (2003-2005) y actualmente es Visiting Assistant Professor en la Universidad de Oregon. Está trabajando en un manuscrito sobre la crítica al nacionalismo institucional y comercial en México y Estados Unidos. Ha publicado diversos artículos sobre la novela histórica y la sátira, incluyendo “Damnosa Hereditas: Sorting the National Will in Fuentes’s The Death of Artemio Cruz and Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49” en How Far Is America From Here? Proceedings of the International American Studies Association. Paul Giles, Theo D’Haen, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson Zamora, eds. (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi Publishers, 2005) y “‘America was the only place...’, American Exceptionalism and the Geographic Politics of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon,” in The Multiple Worlds of Mason & Dixon, Jane Hinds, ed. (New York: Camden House, 2005).
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Published
2007-08-01
Issue
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2007): Fall 2007
Section
Reviews: Outlaws and Bandits