Rebecca E. Biron is the Chair of Latin American/Latino/Caribbean Studies Program at Dartmouth College.

Acknowledgments

1.Ex-centricities
2.The Political is Personal
3.Critical Confrontations
4.Contradictions and (In)Comprehensions
5.Life Writing
6.Nation Writing
7.Modern Dreams
8.The Anxiety of Desire

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Blending cultural studies, literary analysis, and political history, this bookshows how Elena Garro's life and work expose the impasses inherent to the concept of Mexican modernity. This study explores her critique of Mexican modernity and its apologists, as well as her critique on the nation's crisis of globalization, state power, and violence.