A History of Mexican Literature

Table of Contents

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.

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