History of Mexican Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Prado, Ignacio M. Sanchez

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316490686
• Artikelnr.: 45474891

Inhaltsangabe

1. The languages and literature of early print culture in the colonia
Heather Allen; 2. A chronicon of crónicas: the new Spanish prose narrative
Santa Arias; 3. Theatricality and public enactment of the Mexican colonial
Patricia Ybarra; 4. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: the tenth muse and the
difficult freedom to be Catherine Boyle; 5. Jesuit enlightenment:
interventions in Christianity and intellectualism Ivonne del Valle; 6.
Women in the print culture of new Spain Mariselle Meléndez; 7. The colonial
literary scope: empire, letter, and power Anna More; 8. New Spain's
archival past and present materiality Anna M. Nogar; 9. Early
nineteenth-century nation-building prose Amy E. Wright; 10. The emergence
of the Mexican literary field (1833-69) Victor Barrera Enderle; 11. The
rise of cultural institutions Shelley Garrigan; 12. Liberal literati Juan
Pablo Dabove; 13. The conservative paradigm José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra;
14. Mexican modernismo Adela Pineda Franco; 15. The Ateneo de la Juventud:
the foundations of Mexican intellectual culture Pedro Ángel Palou; 16.
Regimes of the avant-garde: colonialists, stridentists, proletarians,
surrealists, contemporáneos, and independent rupture (1920-50) Yanna
Hadatty Mora; 17. The institution of fiction: from Yáñez, Rulfo, and
Fuentes to Pitol and Del Paso Ryan K. Long; 18. Octavio Paz: literature,
modernity, institutions Maarten Van Delden; 19. Mexican poetry after the
avant-garde Rogelio Guedea; 20. Nonfictions: essays, criticism, and crónica
Beth Jörgensen; 21. Balancing acts: twentieth- and twenty-first-century
Mexican theater Stuart A. Day; 22. Women writers in the land of 'virile'
literature Nuala Finnegan; 23. The hidden histories of gender: LGBTQ
writers and subjectivities in Mexico Michael K. Schuessler; 24. Mexican
literature in the neoliberal era Ignacio M. Sänchez Prado; 25. The
literatures of greater Mexico A. Gabriel Meléndez; 26. Indigenous
literatures of Mexico Kelly McDonough and Gustavo Zapoteco Sideño; 27.
Writing cinema: the communicating vessels of literature and film Niamh
Thornton; 28. Popular narratives: telenovelas, corridos, historietas, and
other literary pursuits Robert McKee and Maricruz Castro Ricalde.