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Dancing on the Sun Stone: Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

Dancing on the Sun Stone: Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

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General World HistoryMexican History

ISBN10: 0826364187
ISBN13: 9780826364180
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Dec 1 2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women's lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz's signature poem, Sun Stone--allowing a new gendered history to emerge.

Through this dialogue, the women reveal intimate and intellectual complexities of Mexican women's gendered voices, their histories, and their intimate and public lives. The work further demonstrates the ways these women, in dialogue with Paz, transformed history itself. Becker's multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial Michoacán females, experiences that culminate in their complex revolutionary dance, which itself emerges as a transformative revolutionary language.

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