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The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Leñero, Juan Rulfo, among others.

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The Challenge of the Body is a major contribution to the study of Mexican Literature, and undoubtedly one of the most important books on Mexican cultural studies to emerge in recent years. Janzen's book shows how the Mexican State uses the body (illnesses, disabilities, or marginal experiences of the body) to convey a vision of the 'National body.' In studying literary works, the author is able to portray a thought-provoking book that challenges current interpretations and reads against the grain of the canonical representations of some of our major works of fiction (Jose Revueltas, Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, Rosario Castellanos' novels and even a glimpse into Post-'68 Mexico). - Pedro Parou, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Studies, Tufts University, USA

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Rebecca Janzen is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, USA.

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