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In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the ever-changing context of Mexican intellectualism.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Introduction: A New Kind of Public Intellectual?(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 The Democratic Dogma: Héctor Aguilar Camín, Jorge G. Castañeda, and Enrique Krauze in the Neoliberal Crucible(p. 15)
• Chapter 2 Engaging Intellectuals: Andrés Henestrosa and Elena Poniatowska(p. 45)
• Chapter 3 Monsiváis in a Nutshell(p. 71)
• Chapter 4 Guadalupe Loaeza's Blonded Ambition: Lip-Synching, Plagiarism, and Power Poses(p. 95)
• Chapter 5 It's My (National) Stage Too; Sabina Berman and Jesusa Rodríguez as Public Intellectuals(p. 117)
• Chapter 6 From Accounting to Recounting: Esther Chávez Cano and the Articulation of Advocacy, Agency, and Justice on the US-Mexico Border(p. 139)
• Chapter 7 Mayan Cultural Agency through Performance: Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya-Fomma(p. 163)
• Chapter 8 María Novaro: Feminist Filmmaking as Public Voice(p. 181)
• Chapter 9 The Masked Intellectual: Marcos and the Speech of the Rainforest(p. 197)
• Chapter 10 Javier Sicilia: Public Mourning for the Sons of Mexico(p. 217)
• Notes on Contributors(p. 237)
• Index(p. 241)

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This book comprises ten essays, and a concise introduction, assessing 15 public figures from Mexico working in diverse professional fields: journalism, nonfiction and fiction writing, poetry, theater, film, television, and political and social activism. The work includes famous international writers, e.g, Elena Poniatowska, and film director María Novaro along with less-known native Mayan authors and theater performers Petrona de la Cruz and Isabel Juárez, among others. They are appraised as "public intellectuals" according to a very ample definition of this term. Castillo and Day (Cornell Univ. and Univ. of Kansas, respectively) and some of the authors aim to establish that intellectuals are significant notables "in Mexican public life--in contrast to the proverbial decline of the public intellectuals in countries like the United States." This assertion is reiterated throughout, despite the fact most of the contributions are built on leading American Intellectual theorists such as Edward Said, Marjorie Garber, Doris Sommer, Roderic Ai Camp, et al. Most essays are laudatory vis-à-vis their subjects. Even though the original Spanish text is not cited, this book may be of greatest interest to those interested and involved in Mexican cultural studies. --J. S. Bottaro, Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York

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Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, USA. She is the president of the Latin American Studies Association and specializes in contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world (including the USA), gender studies, and cultural theory.
Stuart A. Day is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas, USA. He is Managing Editor of the Latin American Theatre Review and LATR Books. His research and teaching focus on Latin American theatre, specifically Mexican theatre.