Mexican Public Intellectuals

1. Introduction: A New Kind of Public Intellectual?
Debra A. Castillo, Stuart A. Day

2. The Democratic Dogma: Héctor Aguilar Camín, Jorge G. Castañeda, and Enrique Krauze in the Neoliberal Crucible
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

3. Engaging Intellectuals: Andrés Henestrosa and Elena Poniatowska
Debra A. Castillo

4. Monsiváis in a Nutshell
María Cristina Pons

5. Guadalupe Loaeza’s Blonded Ambition: Lip-Synching, Plagiarism, and Power Poses
Emily Hind

6. It’s My (National) Stage Too: Sabina Berman and Jesusa Rodríguez as Public Intellectuals
Stuart A. Day

7. From Accounting to Recounting: Esther Chávez Cano and the Articulation of Advocacy, Agency, and Justice on the US-Mexico Border
María Socorro Tabuenca C.

8. Mayan Cultural Agency through Performance: Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya-Fomma
Elvira Sánchez-Blake

9. María Novaro: Feminist Filmmaking as Public Voice
David William Foster

10. The Masked Intellectual: Marcos and the Speech of the Rainforest
Oswaldo Estrada

11. Javier Sicilia: Public Mourning for the Sons of Mexico
Javier Barroso

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Latin American Culture, Fiction, North American Literature