Mexican Literature

Author : Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501374791

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Mexican Literature as World Literature by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pdf

Mexican Literature as World Literature is a landmark collection that, for the first time, studies the major interventions of Mexican literature of all genres in world literary circuits from the 16th century forward. This collection features a range of essays in dialogue with major theorists and critics of the concept of world literature. Authors show how the arrival of Spanish conquerors and priests, the work of enlightenment naturalists, the rise of Mexican academies, the culture of the Mexican Revolution, and Mexican neoliberalism have played major roles in the formation of world literary structures. The book features major scholars in Mexican literary studies engaging in the ways in which modernism, counterculture, and extinction have been essential to Mexico's world literary pursuit, as well as studies of the work of some of Mexico's most important authors: Sor Juana, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, and Juan Rulfo, among others. These essays expand and enrich the understanding of Mexican literature as world literature, showing the many significant ways in which Mexico has been a center for world literary circuits.

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292786530

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Mexican Literature by David William Foster Pdf

Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary phenomena that constitute Mexico's most significant and original contributions to literature. Recognizing that no one scholar can authoritatively cover so much territory, David William Foster has assembled a group of specialists, some of them younger scholars who write from emerging trends in Latin American and Mexican literary scholarship. The topics they discuss include pre-Columbian indigenous writing (Joanna O'Connell), Colonial literature (Lee H. Dowling), Romanticism (Margarita Vargas), nineteenth-century prose fiction (Mario Martín Flores), Modernism (Bart L. Lewis), major twentieth-century genres (narrative, Lanin A. Gyurko; poetry, Adriana García; theater, Kirsten F. Nigro), the essay (Martin S. Stabb), literary criticism (Daniel Altamiranda), and literary journals (Luis Peña). Each essay offers detailed analysis of significant issues and major texts and includes an annotated bibliography of important critical sources and reference works.

Author : Sandra Messinger Cypess
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292789609

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La Malinche in Mexican Literature by Sandra Messinger Cypess Pdf

Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernán Cortés, Doña Marina—La Malinche—Malintzin. The mother of Cortés's son, she becomes not only the mother of the mestizo but also the Mexican Eve, the symbol of national betrayal. Very little documented evidence is available about Doña Marina. This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day. It is also the first study to delineate the transformation of this historical figure into a literary sign with multiple manifestations. Cypess includes such seldom analyzed texts as Ireneo Paz's Amor y suplicio and Doña Marina, as well as new readings of well-known texts like Octavio Paz's El laberinto de la soledad. Using a feminist perspective, she convincingly demonstrates how the literary depiction and presentation of La Malinche is tied to the political agenda of the moment. She also shows how the symbol of La Malinche has changed over time through the impact of sociopolitical events on the literary expression.

Author : Eladio Cortes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313368998

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Dictionary of Mexican Literature by Eladio Cortes Pdf

This volume features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools, and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. A collaborative effort by American, Mexican, and Hispanic scholars, the text contains bibliographical, biographical, and critical material--placing each work cited within its cultural and historical framework. Intended to enrich the English-speaking public's appreciation of the rich diversity of Mexican literature, works are selected on the basis of their contribution toward an understanding of this unique artistry. The dictionary contains entries keyed by author and works, the length of each entry determined by the relative significance of the writer or movement being discussed. Each biographical entry identifies the author's literary contribution by including facts about his or her life and works, a chronological list of works, a supplementary bibliography, and, when appropriate, critical notes. Authors are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced both within the text and the index to facilitate easy access to information. Selected bibliographical entries are also listed alphabetically by author and include both the original title and English translation, publisher, date and place of publication, and number of pages.

Author : Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501332524

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Mexican Literature in Theory by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pdf

Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and by the theoretical sophistication of their scholarship. Mexican Literature in Theory provides the reader with two contributions. First, it is one of the most complete accounts of Mexican literature available, covering both canonical texts as well as the most important works in contemporary production. Second, each one of the essays is in itself an important contribution to the elucidation of specific texts. Scholars and students in fields such as Latin American studies, comparative literature and literary theory will find in this book compelling readings of literature from a theoretical perspective, methodological suggestions as to how to use current theory in the study of literature, and important debates and revisions of major theoretical works through the lens of Mexican literary works.

Author : Rebecca Janzen,Meagher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137543011

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The National Body in Mexican Literature by Rebecca Janzen,Meagher Pdf

The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Leñero, Juan Rulfo, among others.

Author : Brian T. Chandler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684485215

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Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Brian T. Chandler Pdf

Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.

Author : Marina Pérez de Mendiola
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815331940

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Gender and Identity Formation in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Marina Pérez de Mendiola Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Andres Ochoa
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0292705735

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The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity by John Andres Ochoa Pdf

While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary canon is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the fullness of the psychological and religious contexts that define this aspect of "mexicanidad." Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity presents a model of failure as a source of knowledge and renewed self-awareness. Studying the relationship between national identity and failure, John Ochoa revisits the foundational texts of Mexican intellectual and literary history, the "national monuments," and offers a new vision of the pivotal events that echo throughout Mexican aesthetics and politics. The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity encompasses five centuries of thought, including the works of the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, whose sixteenth-century True History of the Conquest of New Spain formed Spanish-speaking Mexico's early self-perceptions; José Vasconcelos, the essayist and politician who helped rebuild the nation after the Revolution of 1910; and the contemporary novelist Carlos Fuentes. A fascinating study of a nation's volatile journey towards a sense of self, The Uses of Failure elegantly weaves ethical issues, the philosophical implications of language, and a sociocritical examination of Latin American writing for a sparkling addition to the dialogue on global literature.

Author : Bryan Pearce-Gonzales,Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648893087

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Societal Constructions of Masculinity in Chicanx and Mexican Literature by Bryan Pearce-Gonzales,Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez Pdf

'Societal Constructions of Masculinity in Chicanx and Mexican Literature: From Machismo to Feminist Masculinity' demonstrates how masculinity has been constructed and deconstructed as a challenge or reinforcement of patriarchy in cultural works over the last 50 years. The discussion therein focuses on the cultural shift towards a feminist masculinity and how this change is represented in Chicanx and Mexican literature and Mexican telenovelas. The book begins with how violence, citizenship, and masculinity become intertwined as patriarchy fights, both literally and figuratively, to regain the ground it lost to women's agency during WWII. It explores the author's subversion of the status quo through imagining a new aesthetic based on a poetic masculinity which highlights new forms of social relations that validate new masculinities. This is followed by examining texts from the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution that demonstrate how, by pairing the successes and failures of the nation with masculinity, one can see that as time progresses the very definition of what it signifies to be a Mexican male has been adapting along with the State. The book also explains how fatherhood has been represented in Chicanx literature and considers masculine relationships more broadly. The analysis of the telenovelas in this volume indicates how homosexuality serves as the catalyst for a reconfiguring of gender narratives, ultimately leading to change and acceptance within Mexican society while providing an unequivocal look into the future of masculinity as it begins to overthrow its historical gender binaries. This book will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals, both specialists and generalists, in fields including Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Comparative Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Latina/o Studies, Latin and American Studies, and Cultural Studies. Feminists and activists for human rights will also find this an interesting and valuable text.

Author : Teresa M. Hurley
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mexican fiction
ISBN : 1855660903

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Mothers and Daughters in Post-revolutionary Mexican Literature by Teresa M. Hurley Pdf

The antithesis of the madre abnegada is the mujer mala, the whore, a notion the author also questions by revealing the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship, through which women may perpetuate their own oppression."--Jacket.

Author : Sarah E. L. Bowskill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351192811

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Gender, Nation and the Formation of the Twentieth-century Mexican Literary Canon by Sarah E. L. Bowskill Pdf

"The post-revolutionary Mexican literary canon was formed by cultural and political elites who sought to identify and reward those novels which would best represent the new nation. Reviewers found what they were looking for in Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes's El indio (1935) for example, but not in Consuelo Delgados's Yo tambien, Adelita (1936). This groundbreaking study provides a fresh perspective on canon formation by uncovering the circumstances and readings which produced a male-dominated Mexican literary canon."

Author : Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319718095

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Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pdf

Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work for the study of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. The authors deploy Bourdieu’s concepts in the study of Modernismo, avant-garde Mexico, contemporary Puerto Rican literature, Hispanism, Latin American cultural production, and more. Each essay is also a contribution to the study of the politics and economics of culture in Spain and Latin America. The book, as a whole, is in dialogue with recent methodological and theoretical interventions in cultural sociology and Latin American and Iberian studies.

Author : Joseph Sommers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Mexican literature
ISBN : WISC:89011041910

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The Contribution of Francisco Rojas González to Mexican Literature by Joseph Sommers Pdf

Author : Carlos González Peña
Publisher : Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001540653

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History of Mexican Literature by Carlos González Peña Pdf