Naciones Intelectuales: Las Fundaciones de la Modernidad Literaria Mexicana (1917-1959)

Naciones Intelectuales explores the processes and works that laid the foundations of a new literary modernity in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. It focuses on the period from the signing of the Constitution in 1917, to the death of Alfonso Reyes in 1959, and analyzes the four elements of Mexican cultural practices: the notion of literature, the figure of the intellectual, the creation of academic institutions, and the definition of national identity that emerged through the various debates held by leading figures of the period. The book analyzes different key moments, controversies, and cultural interventions, which ultimately led the diverse aesthetic spectrum created by the revolution into becoming a highly institutional system of literature. This book offers a cartography of Mexican literary institutions unprecedented in scope, which will allow readers, students, and scholars to understand the construction of modern Mexican literature in a clear, rigorous, and systematic way.

Author: Ignacio Sanchez Prado
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 08/08/2009
Pages: 307
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781557535382
ISBN10: 1557535388
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Historical Events

About the Author
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado has published extensively on Mexican literature and culture, and on questions of the relationship between canon construction, world literature, and Latin American writing.