Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State

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Contents ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 15 Chapter One The Revolution Will Be Novelized: Carlos Fuentes’s La región más transparente Constructs a Compensatory Totality 49 Chapter Two Animating the Popular: Fernando del Paso’s José Trigo and the Ruins of Totalizing Thought 81 Chapter Three The Stained Plaza: María Luisa Mendoza’s Con Él, conmigo, con nosotros tres and the Origins of the Mestizo Nation 117 Chapter Four Totality in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico: Subjectivity and Interpellation in Jorge Aguilar Mora’s Si muero lejos de ti 151 Chapter Five The “Machine of Savage Stories”: State, Fiction, and Totality in Héctor Aguilar Camín’s Morir en el golfo 183 Conclusion 187 Notes 203 Works Cited 217 Index vii ...