Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life

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URBAN CHRONICLERS IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA The ShAred InTIMACy of everydAy LIfe Viviane Mahieux UnIverSITy of TexAS | AUSTIn Copyright © 2011 by University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2011 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin,TX 78713–7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ∞ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48–1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Mahieux,Viviane. Urban chroniclers in modern Latin America : the shared intimacy of everyday life / Viviane Mahieux. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-292-72669-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-292-73544-6 (e-book) 1. Latin American literature—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Reportage literature, Latin American—History and criticism. 3. Literature and society—Latin America. 4. City and town life—Latin America. 5. Literature and society—Latin America. 6. Marginality, Social, in literature. 7. Latin America—Intellectual life. 8. Latin America—In literature. I.Title. pq7082.r46m335 2011 868'.60309—dc23 2011027162 For Susana Mahieux, mother and friend THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...