Uncivil wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the battle for cultural memory

treat her problems with the press and the public, and with her ex-husband, Octavio Paz, differently with regards to her difficulty in publishing her work from 1968 to 1980. Whether she was "silenced" or disappeared from the cultural scene because of her eccentricities, as Biron suggests ("The Eccentric Elena Garro"), or because of a conspiracy against her, as Rosas Lopátegui maintains (El asesinato de Elena Garro), what is evident from her own texts is that many of her characters reflect her concerns about being silenced in an alien world. As Marta Robles writes, "hay vidas y obras que se funden en idéntico destino. Elena Garro bien podría ser uno de sus personajes mayores" (133). Supporting this idea, Biron reminds us that Garro often adopted her literary characters from her life (Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams 8), and many readers assume that there is no distinction between her characters and her life. 1 I suggest, however, that although Garro resisted disappearing from public view, as a writer she imagined that there could be a positive side to absenting oneself from an unfavorable scene. One way that her characters deal with their disquiet or inconformity is to disappear, to absent themselves from the world they reject. Nevertheless, she also presents characters who are forced to absent themselves from their environment against their will, as Garro was forced to do after 1968. 2 While the most famous and well-studied examples of disappearing characters are from her narrative, in this study I focus on characters from her plays who literally disappear from sight. I suggest that the author uses these disappearances as a way of signaling that

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Modernismo puertas adentro: Género, escritura y experiencia urbana en Mi vida con Enrique Gómez Carrillo de Aurora Cáceres

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2016

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Uncivil wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the battle for cultural memory

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