Mexican Literature as World Literature

Description

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 Mexico's world literary pursuit, as well as studies of the work of some of Mexico's 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. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1: World-Making and the Poetics of the New World Chapter 2: Global Sor Juana Chapter 3: World-Making in the New Spain of the Eighteenth Century Chapter 4: On (Re)productive Worlds : Transpacific Materiality and Mexican World Literature Chapter 5: World-Making in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Chapter 6: Rethinking Mexican Modernismo and World Literature Chapter 7: World-Making in the Twentieth Century : The Rise of Mexican World Literary Institutions Chapter 8: From Post-Revolutionary Cosmopolitanisms to Pre-Bolaño Infrarealism : Mexican Avant-Garde Literatures in/as World Literature Chapter 9: Beyond the Literary Field : Octavio Paz in World Literature Chapter 10: Brief History of an Anthology of Mexican Poetry Chapter 11: Juan Rulfo’s World Literary Consciousness Chapter 12: Uno se sale de uno para verse viendo : Mexican Countercultural Literature as Psychedelic Interventions of World Literature Chapter 13: Carlos Fuentes and World Literature Chapter 14: Neoliberalism, Distinction, and World Literature in Mexico in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 15: Planetary Poetics of Extinction in Contemporary Mexican Poetry Contributors Index