Mexican Literature as World Literature

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Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author Chapter 15 by Carolyn Fornoff is Winner of the 2022 Best Article in the Humanities Award, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico 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 Mexicos world literary pursuit, as well as studies of the work of some of Mexicos 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.

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Even so, Mexican Literature as World Literature is an important book as part of the discussion that has been expanding for several years now. The effort that the editor has put into the study of Mexico as part of world literature is worthwhile, including the opening up of discourses and locations, as well as the continuous updating of epistemologies from those who address the materiality of Mexican literature locally and internationally. The volume represents one more stage in the constant progression that is the study of cultural and literary productionsboth from the past and those that will continue to appearwhich will have to transform in parallel with the world and its terms of possibility. (Bloomsbury Translation) * Ciberletras *
The 15 essays are engaging and readable, revealing Mexicos participation in world literature: Mexican authors are read internationally, and Mexico has a deep and sustained literary, cultural, economic, and political engagement with the world. * CHOICE *
At this present moment the public and the academy are opening up to a fulsome evaluation of why we have centered a limited cultural perspective and what forces of history have pushed others to the periphery. This book advances this debate with contributions from a range of brilliant scholars who extend readings of Mexican literature and proposes new models for a richer understanding of world literature as a category. * Niamh Thornton, Reader in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK, and author of Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures (2020) *
The brilliantly argued Mexican Literature as World Literature offers an illuminating new viewpoint on the Eurocentric debate of world literature. The volume exposes the world-literature dimensions of a centuries-old literary tradition and shows how Mexico only attained its place on the stage of world literature with the establishment of literary institutions in the post-Revolutionary period of the 20th century. * Gesine Mller, Professor of Romance Philology, University of Cologne, Germany *
Groundbreaking scholarship from pre-eminent scholars of Mexican literature and culture, for students and scholars at every stage alike, brings Mexican literature into conversation with world literature from Conquest to the present, touching on multiple genres. * Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish & Comparative Literature, USA *

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Ignacio M. Snchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He is the author or editor of multiple books, including Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (2018) and Mexican Literature in Theory (Bloomsbury, 2018).