Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature: Imagining the Megalopolis from Below (Hispanic Urban Studies)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	A Subterranean Biography of Mexico City
	Mexico City in Contemporary Literature and Culture
	Presentation of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: Theorizing the Urban Underground in Latin America
	Urban Cultural Studies
	The Vertical City: Maps Versus Volumes?
	Subterranean Modernities
	References
Chapter 3: Subsoil Politics: Rewriting Resistance
	Carlos Monsiváis on the Metro: Democracy by Squeezing
	Between Revolution and Empathy: Subway Struggles in Guadalupe Nettel’s El huésped11
	Revolutionary (Earth) Movements: Te vendo un perro by Juan Pablo Villalobos
	Rewriting Urban “Taupologies”
	References
Chapter 4: Underground Forces: Being in and of the Earth
	Laia Jufresa’s “El esquinista”: A Speculation on Ecology and Art2
	Earth Movements and the Role of the Anthropos in the Work of Ignacio Padilla
	Anthropocene Horror: Armando Vega-Gil’s Picnic en la fosa común
	Geologizing Mexico City: Can We Stay with the Trouble?
	References
Chapter 5: Excavating Time: Literary Archeologies of the Present
	Carlos Fuentes: From Eruptive Pasts to Patchy Futures
	History and Its Shadows in Ana Clavel’s Los deseos y su sombra
	Juan Villoro: Recycling Ruins
	Archeology and Collage
	References
Chapter 6: Writing from Below: The Aesthetic Abyss
	The Author as an Undermining God: La penumbra inconveniente by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras
	Massage in the Metro: Mario Bellatin and the Text as Rhizome12
	Underworld Zapping: Mantra by Rodrigo Fresán
	Deconstructing the City: Subterranean Informes and Their Limits
	References
Chapter 7: Conclusion
	References
Index