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The Mexico City reader / edited by Rubén Gallo ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox and Rubén Gallo

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press , c2004.Description: xvii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780299197148

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DDC classification:

LAS 917.253 MEX

LOC classification:

F1386 .M654 2004

Summary: Gallo (Latin American literature, Princeton U.) and contributors "theorizes" this five- century-old city in the process of modernization, describing places and elements old and new, the Metro, monuments, eating and drinking, urban renewal and its disasters, the earthquake, maids, corruption and bureaucracy, and the city at its margins--namely its garbage dumps and its morgue. In their street talk, street style, and street wisdom, it appears the people of Mexico City are getting by with the help of several million friends and strangers, making at least some of the contributors aware of their distance as observers; others dive in, affirming their roles as artists and participants first, then as theorists about a city that by its very nature may remain perpetually in transition.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 917.253 MEX (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000759

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-329) and indexes.

Gallo (Latin American literature, Princeton U.) and contributors "theorizes" this five- century-old city in the process of modernization, describing places and elements old and new, the Metro, monuments, eating and drinking, urban renewal and its disasters, the earthquake, maids, corruption and bureaucracy, and the city at its margins--namely its garbage dumps and its morgue. In their street talk, street style, and street wisdom, it appears the people of Mexico City are getting by with the help of several million friends and strangers, making at least some of the contributors aware of their distance as observers; others dive in, affirming their roles as artists and participants first, then as theorists about a city that by its very nature may remain perpetually in transition.

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