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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>This powerful account chronicles the human drama of the devastating earthquake that rocked Mexico City<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566393447&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1205_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Nothing, Nobody</h1>
<H2>The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake</H2>
<h3>Elena Poniatowska, translated by Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, foreword by Arthur Schmidt</h3>
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</P><p>September 19, 1985: A powerful earthquake hits Mexico City in the early
morning hours. As the city collapses, the government fails to respond. Long a voice of social conscience, prominent Mexican journalist Elena Poniatowska chronicles the disintegration of the city's physical and social structure, the widespread grassroots organizing against government corruption and incompetence, and the reliency of the human spirit. As a transformative moment in the life of mexican society, the earthquake is as much a component of the country's current crisis as the 1982 debt crisis, the problematic economic of the last ten years, and the recent elections.
<p>In masterfully weaving together a multiplicity of voices, Poniatowska has reasserted the inherent value and latent power of people working together. Punctuated by Poniatowska's own experiences and observations, these post disaster testimonies speak of the disruption of families and neighborhoods, of the destruction of homes and hospitals, of mutilation and death—the collective loss of a city. Drawing the reader dramatically into the scene of national horror through dozens of personal stories, Poniatowska demonstrates the importance of courage and self-reliance in redeeming life from chaos.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p>Read a review on <a href="http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32508851301366" target="new">H-Net</a>, March 1996.
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Introduction to the Series, <I>Voices of Latin American Life</I> – Arthur Schmidt
<br>Foreword: The Shaking of a Nation – Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt
<br>Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake
<br>Glossary
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1205_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Elena Poniatowska</b>, a prominent and prolific Mexican journalist and novelist, has written twenty-five books. Several have been translated into English, including <i>Massacre in Mexico</i> about the 1968 student/worker uprising in Mexico City, and the forthcoming <i>Tin�sima</i>, which centers upon the life of Tina Modotti.</P></td></tr></table><table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1205_au2.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Aurora Camacho de Schmidt</b> is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College. She has worked as a writer and as the National Representative for the Mexico-U.S. Border Program of the American Friends Service Committee.</P></td></tr></table><table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1205_au3.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Arthur Schmidt</b> is Associate Professor of History and former Director of the Latin American Studies Center at Temple University. He is the author of <i>The Social and Economic Effect of the Railroad in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, 1867-1911</i>.</P></td></tr></table>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/general.html" TARGET="_top">General Interest</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/latin.html" TARGET="_top">Latin American/Caribbean Studies</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/voices.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Voices of Latin American Life</a></i>, edited by Arthur Schmidt.
</p><p><I>Voices of Latin American Life</I>, edited by Arthur Schmidt, aims to bring the texture and humanity of Latin American experiences to English-language readers through translations of works that impart direct voices. Through testimonial literature, interviews, and essays, the series will present important Latin American views from the famous and the anonymous that reflect the immense challenges of fundamental issues and of daily life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.</p>
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