Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
1. Engaging Existentialism: Transformative Possibilities and Local Agendas
2. The Mexican Existentialist Ethos
3. The Seminal Mexican Existentialism of Rodolfo Usigli's Theater
4. Excavating Comala: The Existentialist Juan Rulfo, the Grupo Hiperión, and Lo Mexicano in Pedro Páramo (1955)
5. "Christs for All Passions": José Revueltas's El luto humano [Human Mourning]
6. Rosario Castellanos's Freedom
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Stephanie Merrim is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books including Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture.