Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968

Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the true history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and complex series of historical narratives. The initial representations of the events of 1968 were essentially limited to that of the State and that of the Consejo Nacional de Huelga (National Strike Council) and only later incorporated novels and films. Juan J. Rojo examines the manner in which films, posters, testimonios , and the Memorial del 68 expanded the boundaries of those initial articulations to a more democratic representation of key participants in the student movement of 1968.

Auteur
Juan J. Rojo is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Lafayette College, USA.

Contenu

Introduction: Silencing the Storm: The Never-Ending Search for Truth after Tlatelolco.- Testimonio as Metahistory in González de Alba's Los días y los años.- At the Center of the Periphery: Arretche's El grito and the Rhizomatic Visual.- Discourse of the 1968 Student Movement.- Cárcel de mujeres : Gender and Gendering in La Tita Avendaño's De la libertad y el encierro. - The Specters Come Back to Life: Rojo amanecer and El Bulto. - Looking Back After 40 Years: El Memorial del 68.- Conclusion.