Colonial itineraries of contemporary Mexico : literary and cultural inquiries / edited by Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Estrada, Oswaldo, editor.

Nogar, Anna M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Mexican literature.

Historical fiction, Mexican--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, Mexican.

Colonies in literature.

Politics in literature.

Motion pictures--Mexico--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Colonies in motion pictures.

History.

Mexico--In motion pictures.

Mexico.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2014]

Summary:

"This book discusses rewritings of the Mexican colonia to question present-day realities of marginality and inequality, imposed political domination, and hybrid subjectivities. Critics examine literature and films produced in and around Mexico since 2000 to broaden our understanding beyond the theories of the new historical novel and upend the notion of the novel as the sole re-creative genre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Revising Colonial Ruins and Chronicles

1 Carlos Monsiváis: Rewriting the Nation's Memory, Playing Back the Conscience of a Mexico Remiso / Linda Egan Egan, Linda 21

2 Reading Colonial Rums in Carmen Boullosa's Poetry / Jeremy Paden Paden, Jeremy 42

3 Fiction, History, and Geography: Colonial Returns to Mexico City in Héctor de Mauleón's El secrcto de la Noche Triste / Vinodh Venkatesh Venkatesh, Vinodh 60

Part II Queering Gender and Twisting Genres

4 Four Letters and a Funeral: Sor Juana's Writing in Yo, la pear / Oswaldo Estrada Estrada, Oswaldo 83

5 Queering the Auto Sacramental: Anti-Heteronormative Parody and the Specter of Silence in Luis Felipe Fabre's La sodomía en la Nueva España / Tamara R. Williams Williams, Tamara R. 103

6 Colonial Confinement, Confession, and Resistance in Ángeles del abismo bv Enrique Serna / Guillermo De Los Reyes-Heredia Reyes-Heredia, Guillermo De Los, Josué Gutiérrez-González Gutiérrez-González, Josué 126

Part III Global and Transatlantic Itineraries

7 Malinche as Cinderellatl: Sweeping Female Agency in Search of a Global Readership / Irma Cantú Cantú, Irma 147

8 Transatlantic Revisions of the Conquest in Inma Chacón's La princesa India / Cristina Carrasco Carrasco, Cristina 172

9 También la lluvia: Of Coproductions and Re-Encounters, a Re-Vision of the Colonial / Ilana Dann Luna Luna, Ilana Dann 190

10 Children's Literature on the Colonia: La Nao de China, the Inquisition, Sor Juana / Emily Hind Hind, Emily 211

Part IV Into the Nineteenth-Century Colonia

11 Rethinking the Nascent Nation: Historical Fiction and Metanarrative in Pablo Soler Frost's / Anna M. Nogar Nogar, Anna M. 233

12 Out of Bounds in 1822: Humoring the Limits of Colonial Mexico / Stuart A. Day Day, Stuart A. 252

13 A Postcolonial Quartet, 2006-2008 / Seymour Menton Menton, Seymour 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816531080

0816531080

OCLC:

876670760