Survivors in Mexico

"The carefully annotated result reads smoothly enough for stretches at a time, advancing profound (if often bizarrely off-topic) arguments as only West could have framed them. Scattered throughout are sentences as vigorous and rhythmically original as any she ever wrote. It's also true, though, that SURVIVORS IN MEXICO is guided by an overconfidence we might call hubris....But...if she is sometimes presumptuously wrong, she is not condescending. There is no opaque 'Other' in her writing. On the contrary: West took it as her duty to make cultures intelligible to each other, by way of the imagination."West, Rebecca is the author of 'Survivors in Mexico', published 2003 under ISBN 9780300098860 and ISBN 0300098863.