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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  • Rebellious Citizens: Social Upheaval and Democracy in Revolutionary Mexico

    by Ulices Piña University of Nebraska Press In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Piña shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor confined to the ballot box. Focusing on the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910–20, Piña explores how citizens forged a substantive democratic culture in the crucible of three…

  • La profesión literaria: una lectura de la primera época de la Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1955-1957)

    by Iván Pérez Daniel Bonilla Artigas Editores Este estudio cuenta la historia de una revista literaria en el México de la década de 1950, la Revista Mexicana de Literatura. En la elocuencia de su nombre sus impulsores querían expresar el lugar que ellos consideraban debía tener la publicación como institución que diera un orden a…

  • Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism

    by Ericka Beckman Verso Latin America’s agrarian novels chronicled the birth of a new world Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American novel became the key witness to this upheaval, revealing capitalism’s violent remaking…

  • The Extraordinary Life of Juana Catarina Romero: Gender and Power in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

    by Francie Chassen-López University of Nebraska Press The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This biography of Juana Catarina Romero (1837–1915) shatters many of the stereotypes of nineteenth-century women and provides a new perspective of women’s national agency…

  • Los Llaneros: The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900

    edited by Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt and John Beusterien University of Oklahoma Press For centuries Mexican people of the plains—or los Llaneros—have inhabited and embodied the borderland region known today as the Southern Great Plains. Yet their central presence in the area is often forgotten. This diverse collection of essays brings much-needed attention…

  • Study Without Ends: Aesthetic Education in Neoliberal Latin America

    by D. Bret Leraul Northwestern University Press Calls for aesthetic education to unite cultural practices of radical imagination with everyday practices of care While Latin America was neoliberalism’s laboratory, Argentina and Chile have been crucibles for its cultural logics. In this book, D. Bret Leraul examines the rise of neoliberal culture in the Southern Cone through…

  • The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City

    by John F. López Penn State University Press For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later Mexico City, buttheir responses were about more than just engineering. What might seem like straightforward hydraulic projects emerge, under rigorous examination, as complex intersections of visual cultures and philosophical worldviews…

  • Urban Borderlands: Multiracial Histories and Gendered Borders in Los Angeles

    by Isabela Seong Leong Quintana University of North Carolina Press Mexican and Chinese histories collide in LA Plaza Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of Mexican and Chinese men, was met with exclusion policies and deportation campaigns.…

  • La palabra devorada: (re)apropiación, antropofagia y poder en la producción literaria de Latinoamérica

    Latinoamérica. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos, publicación semestral digital editada por el Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, invita a enviar artículos para el dossier “La palabra devorada: (re)apropiación, antropofagia y poder en la producción literaria de Latinoamérica”. Recepción de artículos: 1 de junio al 30…

  • American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City

    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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