Mexican Literature as World Literature

Ignacio M. Sánchez 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).

• IntroductionIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)1. World-Making and the Poetics of the New WorldJorge Téllez (University of Pennsylvania, USA)2. Global Sor JuanaStephanie Kirk (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)3. World-Making in the New Spain of the Eighteenth CenturyKaren Stolley (Emory University, USA)4. On (Re)productive Worlds: Transpacific Materiality and Mexican World LiteratureLaura Torres-Rodríguez (New York University, USA)5. World-Making in Nineteenth-Century MexicoShelley Garrigan (North Carolina State University, USA)6. Rethinking Mexican Modernismo and World LiteratureAdela Pineda Franco (Boston University, USA)7. World-Making in the Twentieth Century: The Rise of Mexican World Literary InstitutionsIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)8. From Post-Revolutionary Cosmopolitanisms to Pre-Bolaño Infrarealism: Mexican Avant-Garde Literatures in/as World LiteratureSara Potter (University of Texas in El Paso, USA)9. Beyond the Literary Field: Octavio Paz in World LiteratureManuel Gutiérrez Silva (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)10. Brief History of an Anthology of Mexican PoetryGustavo Guerrero (Cergy Paris Université, France)11. Juan Rulfo’s World Literary ConsciousnessNuala Finnegan (University College Cork, Ireland)12. Uno se sale de uno para verse viendo: Mexican Countercultural Literature as Psychedelic Interventions of World LiteratureIván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou (University of California-Riverside, USA)13. Carlos Fuentes and World LiteraturePedro Ángel Palou (Tufts University, USA)14. Neoliberalism, Distinction, and World Literature in Mexico in the Twenty-First CenturyOswaldo Zavala (College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)15. Planetary Poetics of Extinction in Contemporary Mexican PoetryCarolyn Fornoff (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex

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 productions—both from the past and those that will continue to appear—which will have to transform in parallel with the world and its terms of possibility. (Bloomsbury Translation)