__Strategic Occidentalism__ examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture.
In the course of this analysis, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists.
__Strategic Occidentalism__ identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol’s translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature.

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Sanchez Prado, Ignacio M.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

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Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture.
In the course of this analysis, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists.
Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol’s translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature.
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Review "Strategic Occidentalism is a landmark study in contemporary Mexican literature that combines exhaustive, original research with clear thinking and stylish prose. Sánchez Prado establishes critical dialogues with major theorists in world, Latin American, and Mexican literary studies, but does so in constructively critical ways. " —Brian Price, author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss
About the Author
IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ PRADO is a professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988–2012 and other books, as well as the editor of eleven collections, including (as coeditor) A History of Mexican Literature.

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Acknowledgments�������������������������������������������� 8
Introduction: Mexican World Literature������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 14
Chapter 1. The Networks of a Personal World: Sergio Pitol’s Heterodox Cosmopolitanism 36
Chapter 2. The Crack Group: Cosmopolitanism contra the Magical Realist Imperative 88
Chapter 3. The Idea of the Mexican Woman Writer: Gender, Worldliness, and Editorial Neoliberalization 150
Conclusion. Mexican World Literature and “World Literature” Theory circa 2017 194
Notes������������������������ 206
Index������������������������ 240

2021-12-08