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• W2201440108 abstract "OROPESA, SALVADOR A. The Contemporaneos Group: Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties. Austin: U of Texas P, 2003.175 pages.This timely and welcome study is focused on Mexican (or, perhaps more accurately, Mexico City) literary culture of the 19305 and 19405. With its rich coverage of relatively under-studied texts and writers, Oropesa's innovative and imaginative work promises to provoke renewed interest in the interplay of history, literature, gender, sexuality, and popular culture in mid-century Mexico. Readers still interested in the specificity of literary studies will appreciate the thoughtful blend of literary, rhetorical, theoretical, and cultural preoccupations at work here: the book is a noteworthy contribution not only to Mexican studies, but to the theory of the baroque as well. Oropesa knows his baroque literary history and uses it effectively to trace active connections (rather than merely genealogical filiations) between texts by Mexican writers and the broader literary universe that forms their intentional and unconscious horizons.The Contemporaneos Group joins several other recent studies which together mark a growing interest in creating new interpretations of the Contemporaneos' work. In the last few years, responding to Octavio Paz's and Guillermo Sheridan's seminal studies in the 19705 and 19805, works by critics such as Jose Quiroga, Robert Irwin, and Evodio Escalante have pointed toward new directions for the study of the Contemporaneos, often with the laudable effect of deterritorializing the writers in question from certain institutional closures of literary history. Quiroga devotes a chapter of his Tropics of Desire (New York UP, 2000) to a theoretically nuanced treatment of Villaurrutia within contemporary queer theory; Escalante's Elevacion y caida del estridentismo (Mexico: Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003) raises interesting questions about the uninterrogated exclusion of the Estridentista writers in the national canonization of the Contemporaneos; and Robert Irwin's Mexican Masculinities (U Minnesota P, 2002) studies the vicissitudes of masculinity in Mexican history, devoting significant attention to writers such as Jorge Cuesta and Xavier Villaurrutia.With its focus on gender and sexuality, and its occasional-and entertaining-predilection for the literature of erotic scandal (particularly that of Salvador Novo), Oropesa's work closely resembles the general character of Mexican Masculinities. Eike Irwin's study, The Contemporaneos Group is a very good read, although Irwin's narrative style might have a slight edge in this regard. Nonetheless, in contrast to Irwin's generally historicist approach, Oropesa gives greater emphasis to questions of literary history, critical theory, and textual analysis, and his study is therefore the more critically comprehensive of the two. This is the case, at least, with the first three of the six chapters of Oropesa's work, which focus on the cultural role of Novo's writing (and, although to a much lesser extent, Villaurrutia's) through the lens of satire and baroque literary theory. Oropesa usefully employs the problem of satire in his discussion of how these writers helped open up a more polyphonic Mexican literary culture beyond the post-revolutionary rhetoric of muralism and the novels of the revolution. His focus is primarily on Novo's extraordinary, genre-bending journalism (Novo, in fact, is the central figure in the book as a whole), although significant portions of the initial chapters examine Novo's burlesque poetry and its relation to the baroque satire and wit of writers such as Gongora, Quevedo, and Sor Juana.A reader not acquainted with the politics of Mexican literary criticism might fail to note the significance of Oropesa's emphasis on the history of the Hispanic baroque back to the 17th century. Despite a lively tradition of Mexican criticism that is highly engaged with its relation to everything non-Mexican, the contemporary institutions of Mexicanism often tend to discourage the treatment of the Mexican literary topics within a broader literary context that would give Spanish literature a prominent role. …" @default.
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