A history of Mexican literature / edited by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado (Washington University in Saint Louis), Anna M. Nogar (University of New Mexico), Jose Ramon Ruisanchez Serra (University of Houston).
The languages and literature of early print culture in the colonia / Heather J. Allen -- A chronicon of cronicas: the new Spanish prose narrative / Santa Arias -- Theatricality and public enactment of the Mexican colonial / Patricia Ybarra -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: the tenth muse and the difficult freedom to be / Catherine Boyle -- Jesuit enlightenment: interventions in Christianity and intellectualism / Ivonne del Valle -- Women in the print culture of new Spain / Mariselle Melendez -- The colonial literary scope: empire, letter, and power / Anna More -- New Spain's archival past and present materiality / Anna M. Nogar -- Early nineteenth-century nation-building prose / Amy E. Wright -- The emergence of the Mexican literary field (1833-1869) / Victor Barrera Enderle -- The rise of cultural institutions / Shelley Garrigan -- Liberal literati / Juan Pablo Dabove -- The conservative paradigm / Jose Ramon Ruisanchez -- Mexican modernismo / Adela Pineda Franco -- The Ateneo de la Juventud: the foundations of Mexican intellectual culture / Pedro Angel Palou -- Regimes of the avant-garde: colonialists, stridentists, proletarians, surrealists, contempraneos, and independent rupture (1920-1950) / Yanna Hadatty Mora -- The institution of fiction: from Yanez, Rulfo, and Fuentes to Pitol and Del / Paso Ryan Long -- Octavio Paz: literature, modernity, institutions / Maarten Van Delden -- Mexican poetry after the avant-garde / Rogelio Guedea -- Nonfictions: essays, criticism, and cronicle / Beth E. Jorgensen -- Balancing acts: twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican theater / Stuart A. Day -- Women writers in the land of 'virile' literature / Nuala Finnegan -- The hidden histories of gender: LGBTQ writers and subjectivities in Mexico / Michael K. Schuessler -- Mexican literature in the neoliberal era / Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado -- The literatures of greater Mexico / A. Gabriel Melendez -- Indigenous literatures of Mexico / Kelly McDonough and Gustavo Zapoteco Sideno -- Writing cinema: the communicating vessels of literature and film / Niamh Thornton -- Popular narratives: telenovelas, corridos, historietas, and other literary pursuits / Robert McKee and Maricruz Castro Ricalde.
Summary:
"A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Mexican literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mariano Azuela, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in Mexican literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike"-- Provided by publisher. "Over the past fifteen years, the field of Mexican literary and cultural studies has grown and evolved considerably in the English-language academy. While the shared border between Mexico and the United States has always precipitated cultural exchange and academic interest, the study of Mexican literature had for many years been eclipsed by Chicano studies or by the dominant interest in the Southern Cone within Latin American letters. In the last decade and a half, however, a new generation of scholars of Mexican literature and culture has achieved tenure-line positions in universities in the United States and Canada, most tellingly at institutions where the field had not previously been represented. This is also the case in Great Britain, where scholars of Mexican literature are found not only at flagship institutions like Cambridge or Oxford, but also, and increasingly, at universities from Sussex to Ulster"-- Provided by publisher.
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