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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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Author(s): Becker, Marjorie
ISBN No.: 9780826366290
Pages: 152
Year: 202405
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 41.33
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Status: Available

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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