Beth E. Jörgensen is Professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester. Her books include (with coeditor Ignacio Corona) The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre, also published by SUNY Press; The Writing of Elena Poniatowska: Engaging Dialogues; and a new rendition, with notes, of Mariano Azuela's The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Distinction of Nonfiction: Toward a Theoretical Framework
2. Writing the Mexican Revolution of 1910
3. Living Stories, Telling Lives: Autobiographical Writings of José Vasconcelos and María Luisa Puga
4. Life Writing from a Popular Perspective
5. Chronicling Crisis: Late Twentieth-Century Manifestations of the Literature of Encounter
6. Making History: Subcomandante Marcos in the Mexican Chronicle
Conclusions: Thinking Back, Looking Ahead
Notes
Works Cited
Index