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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  • Lenchitudes: Sapphic Representation in Contemporary Mexican Narrative

    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…

  • Señorita Telefonista: Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City

    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…

  • Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926–2014

    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…

  • Walking a City’s History: Mexico City from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

    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…

  • Border Biomes: Ecological Imaginaries of Mexico’s Edges

    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…

  • Fugarse de época: cultura y precariedad en México

    by Martin Adrian De Mauro Rucovsky Editorial Universitaria de Villa María Un grupo de punks caminan sin rumbo. Costureras que organizan su furia desde las sombras. Un terremoto sacude la Ciudad de México. Una mucama de hotel vive donde trabaja. Los años dos mil y el avance de la tecnología. ¿De qué modo se conectan…

  • Poverty and Antitheatricality: Form and Formlessness in Latin American Literature, Art, and Theory

    by Stephen Buttes University of Delaware Press Poverty and Antitheatricality argues that many major analytical approaches today misunderstand the problem of poverty by emphasizing its status as an experience. These experiential models transform poverty from a specific socioeconomic status lived in a particular historical sequence into a transhistorical presence of marginality that is not only…

  • Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas

    by Emilio Sauri Northwestern University Press Demonstrating how art and literature remain vital to alternative imaginaries beyond the power of imperialism and modernization Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas employs a dynamic, comparative approach to contemporary literature and visual art, showing how fiction, photography, poetry, and film from Latin…

  • Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations: Resistance, Catharsis, Transformation

    by David S. Dalton Rutgers University Press Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations analyzes Mexico’s rich history of digital activism, which is among the most vibrant of any country in the Hispanic world. The book begins with a discussion of the Zapatista uprising of 1994—which is widely understood as the first digital social movement in…

  • The Power to Harm and Heal: Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico

    by Joshua Mentanko University of North Carolina Press Histories of Indigenous healing and Western medicine in Chiapas In the mid-twentieth century, Mexico became a hub for global experiments in public health and social science. Best known as the birthplace of the Green Revolution, Mexico also pioneered the first large-scale effort to train community health workers…

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