Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information 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. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013–2473,USA Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107099807 © Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar, and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra 2016 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2016 Printed in the United States of America by Sheridan Books, Inc A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Sánchez Prado, Ignacio M., 1979– editor. | Nogar, Anna M., editor. | Ruisánchez Serra, José Ramón, editor. A history of Mexican literature / edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar, José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. LCCN 2015040737 | ISBN 9781107099807 (hardback) LCSH: Mexican literature – History and criticism. | Popular literature – Mexico – History and criticism. | Literature and society – Mexico – History. LCC PQ7111 .H58 2016 | DDC 860.9/972–dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040737 isbn 978-1-107-09980-7 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information 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 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09980-7 - A History of Mexican Literature Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra Frontmatter More information 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