Acknowledgments Introduction Ignacio Corona and Beth E. Jorgensen Part I. Chronicle Writing: Reflections on Contemporary Practice 1. On the Chronicle in Mexico Carlos Monsivais 2. How I Started Writing Chronicles and Why I Never Stopped Elena Poniatowska 3. Patience and Urgency Dante Medina 4. Border(line) Texts: The Chronicle, Writing in the Open Rossana Reguillo 5. Questioning the Chronicle Jose Joaquin Blanco, Vicente Lenero, and Juan Villoro Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre 6. Matters of Fact: The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle and/as Nonfiction Narrative Beth E. Jorgensen 7. Play on Words: Chronicling the Essay Linda Egan 8. At the Intersection: Chronicle and Ethnography Ignacio Corona 9. Modernismo, Journalism, and the Ethics of Writing: Manuel Gutierrz Najera's "La hija del aire" Anibal Gonzalez 10. Writing the City: The Chronicles of Salvador Novo Mary K. Long 11. Walking in the Modern City: Subjectivity and Cultural Contacts in the Urban Cronicas of Salvador Novo and Carlos Monsivais Juan G. Gelpi 12. Christina Pacheco's Narratives: Multimedia Chronicles Dawn Slack Afterword Introduction Ignacio Coronoa and Beth E. Jorgensen The Rainforest Chronicles of Subcomandante Marcos Cynthia Steele Contributors' Biographies Index
Ignacio Corona is Assistant Professor of Spanish at The Ohio State University and the author of Despues de Tlatelolco: Las narrativas politicas en Mexico (1976-1990). Beth E. Jorgensen is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester and the author of The Writing of Elena Poniatowska: Engaging Dialogues.
"It is amazing that there are almost no studies of the genre of the 'cronica.' The radical reformulation of the essay format and sharp analytic commentaries about contemporary Mexico have made cronica one of the most signal genres of the late twentieth century. This book provides a thorough introduction, tracing the cronica's historical roots, giving a very well conceived argument about the contributions of the contemporary cronica, along with close readings of specific texts. This volume fills an important gap and will become a standard reference." - Debra A. Castillo, author of Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction
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