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True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico

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True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico

Robert Buffington
Pablo Piccato

ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8263-4530-1

2009 by the University of New Mexico Press

All rights reserved. Published 2009

Printed in the United States of America

14 13 12 11 10 09 1 2 3 4 5 6

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

True stories of crime in modern Mexico / [compiled by] Robert Buffington, Pablo Piccato.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8263-4529-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Detective and mystery stories, MexicanHistory and criticism.

I. Buffington, Robert.

II. Piccato, Pablo.

PQ7207.D48T76 2009

863.087209972dc22

2008043155

Book design and type composition by Melissa Tandysh

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Crime Stories
Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato

CHAPTER ONE
Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construction of Porfirian Reality
Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato

CHAPTER TWO
I Was a Man of Pleasure, I Cant Deny It: Histories of Jos de Jess Negrete, a.k.a. The Tiger of Santa Julia
Elisa Speckman Guerra

CHAPTER THREE
A Sense of the Tragic in Life: Text and Context in Mexico Citys General Insane Asylum
Cristina Rivera-Garza

CHAPTER FOUR
The Girl Who Killed a Senator: Femininity and the Public Sphere in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Pablo Piccato

CHAPTER FIVE
Who Killed Roberto Gonzlez?: Murder, Radicalism, and Catholic Nationalism in Postrevolutionary Michoacn
Christopher R. Boyer

CHAPTER SIX
Of Intersections and Parallel Lives: Jos de Len Toral and David Alfaro Siqueiros
Renato Gonzlez Mello

CHAPTER SEVEN
The Case of the Murdering Beauty: Narrative Construction, Beauty Pageants, and the Postrevolutionary Mexican National Myth, 19211931
Vctor M. Macas-Gonzlez

CHAPTER EIGHT
Mothers of Invention: Narratives of Maternity, Paternity, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico
Katherine Elaine Bliss

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Despite our best intentions, this project has taken several years to complete. Along the way we have incurred many debts.

By way of acknowledgment, we would like to thank the following:

Our authors for their intellectual insights, for their hard work through several rounds of revisions, and, not least, for their patience.

General editor for the Dilogos series, Lyman Johnson, for his enthusiasm, thoughtful critique, and uncompromising standards.

The staff at the University of New Mexico Press for their encouragement, timely responses, and unfailing good cheer.

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