Mexican Literature as World Literature
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.| Publisher Name | Bloomsbury Academic |
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| Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
| Format | Audio |
| Bisac Subject Major | LIT |
| Language | NG |
| Isbn 10 | 1501374788 |
| Isbn 13 | 9781501374784 |
| Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
| Series | 000790675 |
| Dimensions | 00.00" H x 00.00" L x 00.00" W |
| Page Count | 280 |
Ignacio M. Snchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and he will serve as Kluge Chair of the Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress. He is the author or editor of multiple books, including Naciones intelectuales: Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana 1917-1959 (2009, winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Humanities Book Award), A History of Mexican Literature (2016, with Anna Nogar and Jos Ramn Ruisnchez), Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (2018), and Mexican Literature in Theory (Bloomsbury, 2018).
