A History of Mexican Literature

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Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. His

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

aesthetics, ideology, and cultural institutions in

the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive

Mexico. He is the author of Screening Neoliberalism:

introduction that charts the development of a complex

Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988–2012.

canon, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Mexican

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research focuses on the relationship between

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H I S T O R Y O F M E X I C A N L I T E R AT U R E 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

A N N A M . N O G A R is Associate Professor

literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey

of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department

the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse

of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of

writers as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mariano Azuela,

New Mexico. She specializes in colonial-era

Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. Written by a host

Mexican literature and culture. She is coeditor,

of leading scholars, this History also devotes special

with Oswaldo Estrada, of Colonial Itineraries of

attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and

Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural

multiculturalism in Mexican literature. This book is of

Inquiries.

pivotal importance to the development of Mexican

pivotal importance to the development of Mexican

writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for

writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for

specialists and students alike.

specialists and students alike.

J O S É R A M Ó N R U I S Á N C H E Z S E R R A is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Houston. He has contributed to such journals as PMLA, Revista de Mexicana. He is the author of Historias que regresan: topología y renarración en la segunda mitad del siglo XX mexicano.

Cover image: Plaza Mayor de Mexico (print by Carl Nebel) / British Library, London, UK / © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images Cover design by Kathleen Lynch/Black Kat Design

Sánchez Prado Nogar Ruisánchez Serra

Estudios Hispánicos, and Revista de Literatura

EDITED BY

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Anna M. Nogar José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra

literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as Sor Juana Inés 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


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