True stories of crime in modern Mexico
By: [compiled by] Robert Buffington, Pablo Piccato.
Contributors: Buffington, Robert.; Piccato, Pablo.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780826345295
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Mexican -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Crime stories / Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato; title: Tales of two women : the narrative construction of Porfirian reality / Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato; title: I was a man of pleasure, I can't deny it : histories of José de Jesús Negrete, a.k.a. "The tiger of Santa Julia" / Elisa Speckman Guerra; title: A sense of the tragic in life : text and context in Mexico City's general insane asylum / Cristina Rivera-Garza; title: The girl who killed a senator : femininity and the public sphere in postrevolutionary Mexico / Pablo Piccato; title: Who killed Roberto González? : murder, radicalism, and Catholic nationalism in postrevolutionary Michoacán / Christopher R. Boyer; title: Of intersections and parallel lives : José de León Toral and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Renato González Mello; title: The case of the murdering beauty : narrative construction, beauty pageants, and the postrevolutionary Mexican national myth (1921-1931) / Víctor M. Macías-González; title: Mothers of invention : narratives of maternity, paternity, and modernity in early Twentieth-Century Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss