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.

Mexico--In motion pictures.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Reliving the Mexican Colonia in a New Millennium / Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar

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

2. Reading Colonial Ruins in Carmen Boullosa's Poetry / Jeremy Paden

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

Part II. Queering Gender and Twisting Genres

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

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

6. Colonial Confinement, Confession, and Resistance in Ángeles del abismo by Enrique Serna / Guillermo de los Reyes-Heredia and Josué Gutiérrez-González

Part III. Global and Transatlantic Itineraries

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

8. Transatlantic Revisions of the Conquest in Inma Chacón's La princesa india / Cristina Carrasco

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

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

Part IV. Into the Nineteenth-Century Colonia

11. Rethinking the Nascent Nation: Historical Fiction and Metanarrative in Pablo Soler Frost's 1767 / Anna M. Nogar

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

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

Postscriptum. Specifically Mexican, Universally American: Tales of Colonial Mexico and Their Legacies / Rolena Adorno.

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-9875-4

OCLC:

892039528