Mexican Literature in Theory

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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. Cover Half-title Title Copyright 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 6. The Nature of Revolution in Rafael F. Muñoz’s 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 11. Embodiment Envy: Love, Sex, And Death in Pedro 12. Visualizing the Nonnormative Body in Guadalupe Nettel’S 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