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Guardians of Discourse
by Kevin M. Anzzolin
2024 · 227 pages · 1496239636
Honorable Mention for the 2025 LASA Mexico Section for Best Book in the Humanities During Porfirio Díaz's thirty-year rule, Mexico dealt with the press in disparate ways in hopes of forging an informed and, above all, orderly citizenry. Even as innumerable journalists were sent to prison on exaggerated and unfair charges of defamation or slander, Díaz's government subsidized multiple newspapers to expand literacy and to aggrandize the image of the regime. In Guardians of Discourse Kevin M. Anzzolin analyzes the role and representation of journalism in literary texts from Porfirian Mexico to ar…
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