TY - BOOK AU - Buffington,Robert AU - Piccato,Pablo TI - True stories of crime in modern Mexico T2 - Dialogos series SN - 9780826345295 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - PQ 7207 T866 2009 U1 - 863/.087209972 PY - 2009/// CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Detective and mystery stories, Mexican KW - History and criticism KW - Novela policíaca mexicana N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Crime stories / Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato -- Tales of two women : the narrative construction of Porfirian reality / Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato -- I was a man of pleasure, I can't deny it : histories of Josâe de Jesâus Negrete, a.k.a. "The tiger of Santa Julia" / Elisa Speckman Guerra -- A sense of the tragic in life : text and context in Mexico City's general insane asylum / Cristina Rivera-Garza -- The girl who killed a senator : femininity and the public sphere in postrevolutionary Mexico / Pablo Piccato -- Who killed Roberto Gonzâalez? : murder, radicalism, and Catholic nationalism in postrevolutionary Michoacâan / Christopher R. Boyer -- Of intersections and parallel lives : Josâe de Leâon Toral and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Renato Gonzâalez Mello -- The case of the murdering beauty : narrative construction, beauty pageants, and the postrevolutionary Mexican national myth (1921-1931) / Vâictor M. Macâias-Gonzâalez -- Mothers of invention : narratives of maternity, paternity, and modernity in early Twentieth-Century Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss ER -