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Mexican Literature in Theory

Editat de Prof. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iul 2019
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501355769
ISBN-10: 1501355767
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustration
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A wide-ranging account of contemporary Mexican literature, covering canonical and less well-known texts as well as different methodological approaches

Notă biografică

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA. He is the author of El canon y sus formas: La reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (2002), Naciones intelectuales: Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana 1917-1959 (2009, winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Humanities Book Award), Intermitencias americanistas: Ensayos académico y literarios 2004-2009 (2012), Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (2014), and Strategic Occidentalism: "World Literature," Mexican Fiction and the Neoliberalization of the Book Market (forthcoming).

Cuprins

Acknowledgments1. IntroductionIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)2. Into the 'Oriental' Zone: Edward Said and Mexican LiteratureLaura Torres-Rodríguez (New York University, USA)3. The Perils of Ownership: Property and Literature in 19th-Century MexicoAna Sabau (University of Michigan, USA)4. Pale Theory: Amado Nervo and the AbsentialJosé Ramón Ruisánchez Serra (University of Houston, USA)5. Mexican Revolution and Literary Form: Reflections on Nellie Campobello's CartuchoIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)6. The Nature of Revolution in Rafael F. Muñoz's Se llevaron el cañon para BachimbaCarolyn Fornoff (Lycoming College, USA)7. Reading Rulfo between Benjamin and Derrida: End of StoryBruno Bosteels (Cornell University, USA)8. Rosario Castellanos' Southern Gothic: Indigenous Labor, Land Reform and the Production of Ladina SubjectivityEricka Beckman (University of Illinois, USA)9. Beginnings of José Emilio PachecoChristina Soto van der Plas (Cornell University / University of California Riverside, USA)10. A Theory of Trauma and the Historical Novel: A Small Theoretical Treaty on Fernando del Paso's Noticias del ImperioPedro Ángel Palou (Tufts University, USA)11. Embodiment Envy: Love, Sex and Death in Pedro Ángel Palou's Con la muerte en los puñosRebecca Janzen (University of South Carolina, USA)12. Visualizing the Nonnormative Body in Guadalupe Nettel's El cuerpo en que nacíLilia Adriana Pérez Limón (University of Oklahoma-Norman, USA)13. Fictions of Sovereignty: The Narconovel, National Security and Mexico's Criminal GovernmentalityOswaldo Zavala (The College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)14. Writing and the Body: Interfaces of Violence in Neoliberal MexicoRoberto Cruz Arzabal (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)15. The Politics of Infrastructure in Contemporary Mexican WritingBrian Whitener (University of South Alabama, USA)16. 'Dickens + MP3 ÷ Balzac + JPEG' or, Art and the Value of Innovation in the Contemporary Mexican NovelEmilio Sauri (University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex

Recenzii

The 15 essays offer readings of a wide range of texts-some familiar, some newer-through theoretical lenses that are often surprising. For example, there is a compelling essay on Rosario Castellanos's Balún Canán and its connections to the Southern gothic; Guadalupe Nettel's El cuerpo en que nací is read with disability theory; and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra's theory of the "absential" is used in reading the work of Amado Nervo. The collection also offers essays on the literature of the Mexican Revolution, violence in contemporary Mexico, and the cartonera publishing scene in Mexico. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
The book serves as a good primer on recent theoretical approaches to Mexican literature, and it will be a valuable resource for graduate courses on Mexican literature as well as for critics looking to keep up to date with recent developments in the field.
Mexican Literature in Theory manages to seamlessly combine rich textual analysis, theoretical sophistication and contextual depth in a series of brilliant essays, many of which are by young and emerging scholars. These essays range from an illuminating re-reading of Amado Nervo, through a nuanced analysis of the disabled body in the work of Guadalupe Nettel, to a challenging re-appraisal of racial subjectivities in Rosario Castellanos's novel, Balún-Canán. These are but some of the many highlights from a collection that provides a snapshot of a seam of deeply challenging thinking within Mexican literary criticism in the current moment.
Mexican Literature in Theory assembles some of the best contemporary scholarship in the field to produce a collection that is remarkable in both quality and scope, informed by theories of Orientalism, ecocriticism, state sovereignty and the political, neoliberal violence, and the politics of infrastructure, among many others. By refusing to be constrained by a programmatic definition of 'theory,' the essays in this volume together offer innovative and timely articulations of the processes through which Mexican literature becomes a site for the unfolding and evolution of critical methodologies.
Sánchez Prado has gathered an exciting range of critical essays by (mostly) US-based Mexicanists, many of whom are young and vital scholars establishing a foothold in the academy. Their lively critical interventions are important engagements with the literary texts that interrogate and build upon the existing scholarship. In his introduction, Sánchez Prado's ability to synthesise and situate the essays within a national and global intellectual and political context provides both a broad and deep understanding of the significance of these essays. This collection should be a mainstay on university reading lists as well as an important new resource for researchers in the field.
A rich sample of contemporary criticism that presents Mexican literature as a fruitful source of theoretical knowledge, from the early nineteenth century to the present. In their readings of canonical and unorthodox texts, the critics gathered in this volume successfully explore Mexican literature's subversive undertones in a neoliberal era of polemical theories.