A History of Mexican Literature

1. The languages and literature of early print culture in the colonia Heather Allen; 2. A chronicon of crónicas: the new Spanish prose narrative Santa Arias; 3. Theatricality and public enactment of the Mexican colonial Patricia Ybarra; 4. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: the tenth muse and the difficult freedom to be Catherine Boyle; 5. Jesuit enlightenment: interventions in Christianity and intellectualism Ivonne del Valle; 6. Women in the print culture of new Spain Mariselle Meléndez; 7. The colonial literary scope: empire, letter, and power Anna More; 8. New Spain's archival past and present materiality Anna M. Nogar; 9. Early nineteenth-century nation-building prose Amy E. Wright; 10. The emergence of the Mexican literary field (1833–69) Victor Barrera Enderle; 11. The rise of cultural institutions Shelley Garrigan; 12. Liberal literati Juan Pablo Dabove; 13. The conservative paradigm José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra; 14. Mexican modernismo Adela Pineda Franco; 15. The Ateneo de la Juventud: the foundations of Mexican intellectual culture Pedro Ángel Palou; 16. Regimes of the avant-garde: colonialists, stridentists, proletarians, surrealists, contemporáneos, and independent rupture (1920–50) Yanna Hadatty Mora; 17. The institution of fiction: from Yáñez, Rulfo, and Fuentes to Pitol and Del Paso Ryan K. Long; 18. Octavio Paz: literature, modernity, institutions Maarten Van Delden; 19. Mexican poetry after the avant-garde Rogelio Guedea; 20. Nonfictions: essays, criticism, and crónica Beth Jörgensen; 21. Balancing acts: twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican theater Stuart A. Day; 22. Women writers in the land of 'virile' literature Nuala Finnegan; 23. The hidden histories of gender: LGBTQ writers and subjectivities in Mexico Michael K. Schuessler; 24. Mexican literature in the neoliberal era Ignacio M. Sänchez Prado; 25. The literatures of greater Mexico A. Gabriel Meléndez; 26. Indigenous literatures of Mexico Kelly McDonough and Gustavo Zapoteco Sideño; 27. Writing cinema: the communicating vessels of literature and film Niamh Thornton; 28. Popular narratives: telenovelas, corridos, historietas, and other literary pursuits Robert McKee and Maricruz Castro Ricalde.