Table of contents

1. The Mexican Crack Writers
2. Chapter 1 Introduction: The Mexican Crack Writers—Toward a New Literary Aesthetics
3. Part I History
4. Chapter 2 The Crack: Generational Strategies in Mexico at the Turn of the Century
5. Chapter 3 The Crack Movement’s Literary Cartography (1996–2016)
6. Part II Criticism
7. Chapter 4 Narrative Techniques in Jorge Volpi’s Fictions
8. Chapter 5 Science, Art, and Magic: Totalization and Totalitarianism in Jorge Volpi’s In Search of Klingsor
9. Chapter 6 Soldiers and Shadows: The Post-national Militant in Ignacio Padilla’s Amphitryon and El daño no es de ayer
10. Chapter 7 Living in Las Rémoras. An Introduction to Eloy Urroz’s Fiction
11. Chapter 8 Toward a Philosophy of Love: Pedro Ángel Palou’s Qliphoth and La profundidad de la piel
12. Chapter 9 El dinero del diablo by Pedro Ángel Palou: A New Moral Dialogue
13. Chapter 10 Ricardo Chávez Castañeda: The Limits of Fiction
14. Crack Manifesto
15. The Crack’s Fair (A Guide)
16. ***Crack’s Genealogy
17. ***A Pocket Septet
18. ***The Risks of Form: The Structure of the Crack Novels
19. ***Where Was the End of the World?
20. Crack Postmanifesto (1996–2016)
21. Twenty Years Is Nothing
22. Twenty Snapshots from the Twenty Years
23. The Poetics of Crack
24. The New Pocket Septenary
25. The Crack: A Children’s Primer
26. Author Index
27. Subject Index
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