Contents

pp v-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-14

PART I - COLONIAL LITERATURE

pp 15-16

1 - The Languages and Literatures of Early Print Culture in the Colonia

pp 17-32

2 - A Chronicon of Crónicas: The New Spanish Prose Narrative

pp 33-52

3 - Theatricality and the Public Enactment of the Mexican Colonial

pp 53-65

4 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The Tenth Muse and the Difficult Freedom to Be

pp 66-80

5 - Jesuit Enlightenment: Interventions in Christianity and Intellectualism

pp 81-96

6 - Women in the Print Culture of New Spain

pp 97-112

7 - The Colonial Literary Scope: Empire, Letter, and Power

pp 113-127

8 - New Spain's Archival Past and Present Materiality

pp 128-140

PART II - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

pp 141-142

9 - Early Nineteenth-Century Nation-Building Prose

pp 143-157

10 - The Emergence of the Mexican Literary Field (1833–1869)

pp 158-170

11 - The Rise of Cultural Institutions

pp 171-187

12 - Liberal Literat

pp 188-202

13 - The Conservative Paradigm

pp 203-217

14 - Mexican Modernismo

pp 218-230

PART III - TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES

pp 231-232

15 - The Ateneo de la Juventud: The Foundations of Mexican Intellectual Culture

pp 233-245

16 - Regimes of the Avant-garde: Colonialists, Stridentists, Proletarians, Surrealists, Contemporáneos, and Independent Rupture (1920–1950)

pp 246-259

17 - The Institution of Fiction: From Yáñez, Rulfo, and Fuentes to Pitol and Del Paso

pp 260-277

18 - Octavio Paz: Literature, Modernity, Institutions

pp 278-294

19 - Mexican Poetry after the Avant-garde

pp 295-308

20 - Nonfictions: Essay, Criticism, and Chronicle

pp 309-322

21 - Balancing Acts: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Mexican Theater

pp 323-337

22 - Women Writers in the Land of “Virile” Literature

pp 338-349

23 - The Hidden Histories of Gender: LGBTQ Writers and Subjectivities in Mexico

pp 350-364