Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Counter-Cultural Movements in Mexico: the sixties and seventies

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel presents an overview of countercultural thought in Mexico and considers the contribution of Mexican intellectuals to countercultural studies both in their own country as well as abroad (Price). It also focuses on literature (Janzen) and film (Pineda), and analyzes complex linkages between literary and filmic production to other expressions, such as religion and popular music. And also the political thought of José Revueltas and his influence on the young writers and the student activists of 1968 Mexico. The panel establishes the connection between countercultural production and major political developments in Mexico and Latin America during the sixties and seventies.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• Pedro A Palou, Tufts University

Chair

• Adela E Pineda-Franco, Boston University

Individual Presentations

• Of Jipitecas, Onderos, and Intelectuales: Countercultural Theory in Mexico - Brian L Price, Brigham Young University

• La visión contracultural de Raymundo Gleyzer y México. - Adela E Pineda-Franco, Boston University

• The Challenge of Religion and Counterculture in Mexican Literature: Vicente Leñero’s Oeuvre - Rebecca Janzen, Bluffton University

• José Revueltas, recordar lo no ocurrido. Una política de 68 - Pedro A Palou, Tufts University