Author: Frederick StarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Mexican
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Readings from Modern Mexican Authors
Author: Frederick StarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Mexican
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Mexican Literature in Theory
Author: Ignacio M. Sánchez PradoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150133252X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and by the theoretical sophistication of their scholarship. Mexican Literature in Theory provides the reader with two contributions. First, it is one of the most complete accounts of Mexican literature available, covering both canonical texts as well as the most important works in contemporary production. Second, each one of the essays is in itself an important contribution to the elucidation of specific texts. Scholars and students in fields such as Latin American studies, comparative literature and literary theory will find in this book compelling readings of literature from a theoretical perspective, methodological suggestions as to how to use current theory in the study of literature, and important debates and revisions of major theoretical works through the lens of Mexican literary works.
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Author: Alvaro UribePublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sixteen of Mexicos finest fiction writers born after 1945 are collected in this compelling bilingual anthology, offering a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction, from small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery. Many of these writers, and most of these stories, have never before appeared in English. Readers will meet an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, a mans lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws a crowd from the highest rungs of the social ladder. The writers that Mexican editor lvaro Uribe selected for this volume are deeply engaged in the literary life of Mexico and include prominent editors, translators, columnists, professors, and even the young founder of a new publishing collective. Between them they have received dozens of prizes, from the Xavier Villaurrutia prize to Guggenheim fellowships and other international awards.
Readings From Modern Mexican Authors
Author: Frederick StarrPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020354564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This engaging anthology brings together some of the most exciting and influential voices in Mexican literature of the 20th century. From the magical realism of Carlos Fuentes to the political commentary of Octavio Paz, these writers offer a rich and varied perspective on Mexican society, history, and culture. With its carefully curated selections and insightful commentary, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the vibrant literary scene of contemporary Mexico. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A History of Mexican Literature
Author: Ignacio M. Sänchez PradoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316489809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
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 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 pivotal importance to the development of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.
Easy Women
Author: Debra A. CastilloPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816631131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Addresses the topic of prostitution and "easy women" in Mexican literature. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the "easy woman" in their works. In each example the transgressive woman -- marked by an active sexuality -- serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women's professional and personal lives. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.
Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature
Author: Brian T. ChandlerPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684485215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.
Contemporary Mexican Literature
Author: Luis LealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican literature
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle
Author: Ignacio CoronaPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Diverse perspectives on the “chronicle”as a literary genre and socio-cultural practice.
Mexican Literature as World Literature
Author: Ignacio M. Sánchez PradoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501374796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.