The Mexican Studies Research Collective is broadly conceived as a space for academic dialogue, exchange, and collaboration in the fields of Mexican literary and cultural studies.
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by Tatiana Seijas Cambridge University Press Mexico City was America’s largest city in the seventeenth century – a genuine metropolis. In this deeply researched book, Tatiana Seijas reveals a rich tapestry of stories about essential workers who remade and transformed the city during this period. Her narrative style carries readers to a unique place and…
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by Anna Marta Marini Edinburgh University Press Examines US-Mexico borderland representations in horror films, TV series and comics The US–Mexico borderlands have lived in the popular imagination as the locus of danger and horror, as the “other side” poses violent and unimaginable threats to those who dare cross the border. Situated in the outskirts of…
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edited by David A. Freidel, Arlen F. Chase, Anne S. Dowd and Jerry Murdock University Press of Florida New understandings of how Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. These chapters show…
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by Agustín Zarzosa Northwestern University Press Drawing on the cinematic oeuvre of Ripstein and Garciadiego to reconceptualize the idea of the sordid The sordid is not an ideology, an affect, or even a form of taste or sensibility. It is, Agustín Zarzosa argues, an image and an evocation of the process of degradation. The Sordid…
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by Rachel Grace Newman University of California Press The Future in Their Hands is a deep history of the politics of foreign education in Mexico, where many influential figures have degrees from European or US institutions. Reconstructing the history of student mobility from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, Rachel Grace Newman unveils…
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by Alejandra Márquez State University of New York Press Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the 2010s. Drawing inspiration from the 2020 Marcha Lencha—”Lesbian March”—in Mexico City, Alejandra Márquez expands the concept of lenchitudes into a critical…
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by Susie S. Porter University of Nebraska Press In Señorita Telefonista Susie S. Porter recounts the dynamic role of telephone operators in labor organizing in early twentieth-century Mexico City, taking us from switchboards to union halls and into the streets as working women fought for better wages and against sexual discrimination and harassment. The telephone…
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by Nicole M. Rizzuto Oxford University Press It is a truism that the last one hundred years have been defined by the accelerated and increased propulsion of people and information across seas, land, and air. Also a truism is that literature and art reflect this enhanced mobility in their formal composition, from modernism’s transoceanic voyages…
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by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo University of Chicago Press Take a street-level tour of Mexico’s capital and learn how one of the world’s most extraordinary cities has transformed over the centuries. Walking a City’sHistory is both a richly documented panoramic view of Mexico City’s long history and an intimate essay on its social and cultural fabric. In this…
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by Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez Vanderbilt University Press What effect do heavily fortified national borders have on the natural environments that surround them? In Border Biomes, Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez explores this question by analyzing contemporary Mexican, Latinx, and Indigenous literature that has tried to highlight the human and ecological toll of Mexico’s borders with…
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