Bloomsbury Academic 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. Review Even so, Mexican Literature as World Literature is an important book as part of the discussion that has been expanding for several years now. The effort that the editor has put into the study of Mexico as part of world literature is worthwhile, including the opening up of discourses and locations, as well as the continuous updating of epistemologies from those who address the materiality of Mexican literature locally and internationally. The volume represents one more stage in the constant progression that is the study of cultural and literary productions―both from the past and those that will continue to appear―which will have to transform in parallel with the world and its terms of possibility. (Bloomsbury Translation) --CiberletrasAt this present moment the public and the academy are opening up to a fulsome evaluation of why we have centered a limited cultural perspective and what forces of history have pushed others to the periphery. This book advances this debate with contributions from a range of brilliant scholars who extend readings of Mexican literature and proposes new models for a richer understanding of world literature as a category. --Niamh Thornton, Reader in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK, and author of Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures (2020)The brilliantly argued Mexican Literature as World Literature offers an illuminating new viewpoint on the Eurocentric debate of world literature. The volume exposes the world-literature dimensions of a centuries-old literary tradition and shows how Mexico only attained its place on the stage of world literature with the establishment of literary institutions in the post-Revolutionary period of the 20th century. --Gesine Müller, Professor of Romance Philology, University of Cologne, Germany About the Author Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He is the author or editor of multiple books, includingNaciones intelectuales: Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana 1917-1959 (2009, winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Humanities Book Award) and Mexican Literature in Theory (Bloomsbury, 2018).