Mexican Literature in Theory

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781501355769
• eBook ISBN: 9781501332524
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Into the “Oriental” Zone: Edward Said and Mexican Literature
• 3. The Perils of Ownership: Property and Literature in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
• 4. Pale Theory: Amado Nervo and the Absential
• 5. Mexican Revolution and Literary Form: Reflections on Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho
• 6. The Nature of Revolution in Rafael F. Muñoz’s Se llevaron el cañon para Bachimba
• 7. Reading Rulfo between Benjamin and Derrida: End of Story
• 8. Rosario Castellanos’s Southern Gothic: Indigenous Labor, Land Reform, and the Production of Ladina Subjectivity
• 9. Beginnings of José Emilio Pacheco
• 10. A Theory of Trauma and the Historical Novel: A Small Theoretical Treatise on Fernando del Paso’s Noticias del Imperio
• 11. Embodiment Envy: Love, Sex, and Death in Pedro Ángel Palou’s Con la muerte en los puños
• 12. Visualizing the Nonnormative Body in Guadalupe Nettel’s El cuerpo en que nací
• 13. Fictions of Sovereignty: The Narconovel, National Security, and Mexico’s Criminal Governmentality
• 14. Writing and the Body: Interfaces of Violence in Neoliberal Mexico
• 15. The Politics of Infrastructure in Contemporary Mexican Writing
• 16. “Dickens + MP3 ÷ Balzac + JPEG,” or Art and the Value of Innovation in the Contemporary Mexican Novel
• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Imprint