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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. Walking Into History: When Women Made Tortillas, Danced, and Reconfigured Time
Chapter Two. From Killing Stone to Gendered Time-Scape: Octavio Paz and the Making of the "Sun Stone"
Chapter Three. Dancing on the Sun Stone
Chapter Four. The Dance of Paz's Legacy
Coda. Dancing with the Dancers
Notes
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