A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M

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A HISTORY OF MEXICAN LITERATURE

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. The essays are organized thematically and 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 multi- culturalism in Mexican literature. This book is of pivotal importance to understanding the development of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

ignacio m. sa´nchez prado is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. His research focuses on the relationship between aesthetics, ideology, and cultural institutions in Mexico. He is the author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988–2012. anna m. nogar is Associate Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in colonial-era Mexican literature and culture. She is coeditor, with Oswaldo Estrada, of Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries. jose´ ramo´ nruisa´nchez serra 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 Estudios Hispánicos, and Revista de Literatura Mexicana. He is the author of Historias que regresan: topología y renarración en la segunda mitad del siglo XX mexicano.

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AHISTORYOFMEXICAN LITERATURE

edited by IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ PRADO Washington University in Saint Louis

ANNA M. NOGAR University of New Mexico

JOSÉ RAMÓN RUISÁNCHEZ SERRA University of Houston

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Contents

List of contributors page ix

Introduction 1 Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar, and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra

part i colonial literature 15 1 The Languages and Literatures of Early Print Culture in the Colonia 17 Heather J. Allen 2 A Chronicon of Crónicas: The New Spanish Prose Narrative 33 Santa Arias 3 Theatricality and the Public Enactment of the Mexican Colonial 53 Patricia Ybarra 4 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The Tenth Muse and the Diﬃcult Freedom to Be 66 Catherine Boyle 5 Jesuit Enlightenment: Interventions in Christianity and Intellectualism 81 Ivonne del Valle 6 Women in the Print Culture of New Spain 97 Mariselle Meléndez 7 The Colonial Literary Scope: Empire, Letter, and Power 113 Anna More

vi Contents 8 New Spain’s Archival Past and Present Materiality 128 Anna M. Nogar

part ii the nineteenth century 141 9 Early Nineteenth-Century Nation-Building Prose 143 Amy E. Wright 10 The Emergence of the Mexican Literary Field (1833–1869) 158 Víctor Barrera Enderle 11 The Rise of Cultural Institutions 171 Shelley Garrigan 12 Liberal Literati 188 Juan Pablo Dabove 13 The Conservative Paradigm 203 José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra 14 Mexican Modernismo 218 Adela Pineda Franco

part iii twentieth and twenty-ﬁrst centuries 231 15 The Ateneo de la Juventud: The Foundations of Mexican Intellectual Culture 233 Pedro Ángel Palou 16 Regimes of the Avant-garde: Colonialists, Stridentists, Proletarians, Surrealists, Contemporáneos, and Independent Rupture (1920–1950) 246 Yanna Hadatty Mora 17 The Institution of Fiction: From Yáñez, Rulfo, and Fuentes to Pitol and Del Paso 260 Ryan Long 18 Octavio Paz: Literature, Modernity, Institutions 278 Maarten van Delden 19 Mexican Poetry after the Avant-garde 295 Rogelio Guedea

Contents vii 20 Nonﬁctions: Essay, Criticism, and Chronicle 309 Beth E. Jörgensen 21 Balancing Acts: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Mexican Theater 323 Stuart A. Day 22 Women Writers in the Land of “Virile” Literature 338 Nuala Finnegan 23 The Hidden Histories of Gender: LGBTQ Writers and Subjectivities in Mexico 350 Michael K. Schuessler 24 Mexican Literature in the Neoliberal Era 365 Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

part iv mexican literature beyond boundaries 379 25 The Literatures of Greater Mexico 381 A. Gabriel Meléndez 26 Indigenous Literatures of México 397 Kelly McDonough and Gustavo Zapoteco Sideño 27 Writing Cinema: The Communicating Vessels of Literature and Film 411 Niamh Thornton 28 Popular Narratives: Telenovelas, Corridos, Historietas, and Other Literary Pursuits 426 Robert McKee Irwin and Maricruz Castro Ricalde

Index 441

Contributors

heather j. allen is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. Her teaching and research focus on early modern Spanish American literature and the cultural history of print. She has published in edited volumes and journals, including Colonial Latin American Review and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. santa arias, Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kansas, is the author of Retórica, historia y polémica: Bartolomé de las Casas y la tradición intelectual renacentista (2001) and The Nature of Empire: Geo/graphing the Tropics during the Age of the Enlightenment (forthcoming). In addition, she has authored numerous critical essays and coedited four volumes. vı´ctor barrera enderle is a writer, essayist, and literary critic. He is also a full-time researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Monterrey, Mexico). In 2013 he won the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Prize for his book Lectores insurgentes. La formación de la crítica literaria hispanoamericana (1810–1870). catherine boyle is Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at King’s College London. Her research concentrates on Latin American theater, translation, and gender. She was a founding editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies and is director of the theater translation and practice project Out of the Wings (www.outofthewings.org) and translator of Sor Juana’s Los empeños de una casa (House of Desires, 2004). maricruz castro ricalde is Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico). She has published, edited, and coordinated several books: coauthor with Robert McKee Irwin of El cine mexicano “se impone”. Mercados internacionales y penetración cultural en la época dorada (2011) and Global Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age (2013) and coeditor with Monica Szurmuk of Sitios de la memoria. México Post-68 (2014). She is

x List of contributors the winner of several awards including the Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez Medal (2010) and the prize “Cultura de México” (FONCA–Brown University, 2013). juan pablo dabove is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and culture at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America (1816–1929) and Bandit Narratives in Latin America: From Villa to Chávez; editor of scholarly collections on Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and nineteenth-century Latin American literature (Demons of Hispanic Literatures); and coeditor of Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad en América Latina. stuart a. day is Associate Professor of Spanish at Kansas University. Day’s main area of teaching and research is contemporary Latin American literature, with a focus on theater and performance in Mexico. His ﬁrst book, Staging Politics in Mexico: The Road to Neoliberalism, was published by Bucknell University Press. Day has also published several anthologies and co-edited, with Jacqueline E. Bixler, El Teatro de Rascón Banda: voces en el umbral (Escenelogía). He has published book chapters with several presses (Arizona, Iowa, Escenología, Vanderbilt, etc.) as well as articles, play introductions, and interviews in a variety of journals. Day’s theoretical approach is informed mainly by Cultural Studies and Performance Studies; and his courses often have to do with social justice. Day edited a special edition of the Mexican theater magazine Paso de Gato. Day currently has three book projects under review: Strategic Alliances: Performances That Shape Mexico, Mexico Through Art, and Engaging Latin@ and Latin American Theater.Heis Managing Editor of the Latin American Theatre Review, and served on the Advisory Board of the PMLA. He is also involved with LATR Books as Managing Editor, for which he recently edited an anthology of Mexican plays (Las fronteras míticas del teatro mexicano, 2009 and 2016). ivonne del valle, Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is studying the drainage of the lakes of Mexico City and the ways in which the unprecedented violence of the conquest and the need for eﬀective administration of the colonies brought about dramatic changes in the colonies that ended up transforming Europe. nuala finnegan is Professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and Director of the Centre for Mexican Studies in University College, Cork, Ireland. She has published on the

List of contributors xi works of many women writers from Mexico, including Monstrous Projections of Femininity in the Prose of Rosario Castellanos (2001) and Ambivalence, Modernity, Power: Women and Writing in Mexico since 1980 (2007). shelley garrigan is Associate Professor of Spanish at North Carolina State University. Her research so far has centered on nineteenth-century Mexico’s cultural institutions and literary magazines, as well as early twentieth-century European migration to Mexico. Her book, Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments and the Creation of National Identity (2012), explores the intersections of patrimony and commerce during the era of national consolidation and modernization in Mexico. rogelio guedea is Associate Professor of Spanish and coordinator of the Spanish Programme at the University of Otago (New Zealand). Some of his recent books are: Historia crítica de la poesía mexicana, siglos XIX y XX (editor), Tiempo quebrado: la poesía de Jaime Sabines, and Reloj de pulso. Crónica de la poesía mexicana de los siglos XIX y XX. yanna hadatty mora is Full Professor at UNAM. Her work is focused on Latin American vanguards, as are her books Autofagia y narración: estrategias de representación en la narrativa iberoamericana de vanguardia (2003), La ciudad paroxista. Prosa mexicana de vanguardia (2009), and Prensa y literatura para la Revolución. La Novela Semanal de El Universal Ilustrado (2015). robert mckee irwin, Chair, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis, is author of Mexican Masculinities and Bandits, Captives, Heroines and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico’s Northwest Borderlands and coauthor of Global Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age. He is currently co–Principal Investigator of the Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies: Rights, Containment, Protest. beth e. jo¨rgensen, Professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester, has published extensively on contemporary Mexican literature. Her books include The Writing of Elena Poniatowska: Engaging Dialogues and Documents in Crisis: Nonﬁction Literatures in Twentieth-Century Mexico and the edited volumes The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle with Ignacio Corona and Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies with Susan Antebi.

xii List of contributors ryan long is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on culture and politics in Mexico and Latin America, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. He is the author of Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National- Popular State (2008). kelly mcdonough is Assistant Professor of Latin American Colonial Literatures and Indigenous Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Learned Ones: Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico (2014). a. gabriel meleńdez is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He has authored books on borderlands literature and film, serves on the board of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, and is a general editor for the Pasó por aquí series at the University of New Mexico Press. He has been a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary. mariselle meleńdez is Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru (2011) and Raza, género e hibridez en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (1999) and coeditor of Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Places and Commonplaces of Identity, Culture, and Experience (2002), as well as author of many articles. anna more is Professor of Hispanic Literatures at the Universidade de Brasília. She is author of Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico and editor of the forthcoming Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works. anna m. nogar, Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of New Mexico, specializes in colonial Mexican and Mexican American literature and culture. She is the coeditor of Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico (2014) and the author of two forthcoming books on the Spanish nun Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda. pedro ańgel palou is Professor at Tufts University. He has published extensively on Mexican literature of the twentieth century, and he has received the Francisco Javier Clavijero National Prize of History for his book La casa del silencio. As a novelist, he also won the Xavier Villaurrutia prize for his work Con la muerte en los puños in 2003.

List of contributors xiii adela pineda franco is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish American literature, culture, and film and on the relationship between politics and culture. She has published numerous studies on the finde siècle, including Geopolíticas de la cultura finisecular en Buenos Aires, París y México: las revistas literarias y el modernismo, a book on the transatlantic literary practices of modernista authors. jose´ ramoń ruisańchez serra is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Houston. He is the author of Historias que regresan: topología y renarración en la segunda mitad del siglo XX mexicano, as well as articles on Mexican literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also coedited Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la crítica. ignacio m. sańchez prado is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the author of five books, including Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (2009) and Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988–2012 (2014) and the editor of var- ious scholarly collections. michael k. schuessler is Professor of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, in Mexico City. He the author of several books, including Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Portrait (2007) and Foundational Arts: Mural Painting and Missionary Painting in New Spain (2013). In 2010 he coedited a volume on gay culture entitled México se escribe con jota: una historia de la cultura gay. niamh thornton, University of Liverpool, is a Latin Americanist with a particular focus on Mexican film, literature, and digital cultures. She has published numerous edited collections, including International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World Is My Place (2013) with Catherine Leen, and several chapters and articles. Her most recent monograph is Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Cinema (2013). maarten van delden is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity (1998) and coauthor (with Yvon Grenier) of Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America (2009). amy e. wright, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Saint Louis University, has published articles on nineteenth-century print culture as well as a

xiv List of contributors chapter on Mexico’s earliest serialized literatures. Her current project examines the early Latin American serial novel’s connection to incipient collective identities and ambivalence toward European models, in development throughout the independence and nation-building periods (1800–1880). patricia ybarra, Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, is the author of Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theatre, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (2009) and coeditor with Lara Nielsen of Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations (2012). gustavo zapoteco siden˜o (Nahua, Guerrero) is a poet and essayist, writing both in his native language, Nahuatl, and in Spanish. He has published ﬁve critically acclaimed books of poetry; the most recent is Chalchihuicozcatl/Collar de Jade (2014). He has also published numerous essays and presented his work in Latin America, the United States, and Europe.