David William Foster (1940–2020) was Regents' Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University.

Prior to the publication of the present volume, surprisingly few first-rate overviews of Mexican literature were available to students and scholars. Now those seeking to enhance their knowledge of the various centuries and genres of Mexican letters have an excellent source at hand. . . . David William Foster is to be commended for having edited an extremely useful volume on a broad and fascinating subject. (World Literature Today)

• Preface (David William Foster)1. Pre-Columbian Literatures (Joanna O’Connell)2. The Colonial Period (Lee H. Dowling)3. Romanticism (Margarita Vargas)4. Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction (Mario MartÍn-Flores)5. Modernism (Bart L. Lewis)6. Twentieth-Century Poetry (Adriana GarcÍa)7. Twentieth-Century Theater (Kirsten F. Nigro)8. Twentieth-Century Fiction (Lanin A. Gyurko)9. The Essay (Martin S. Stabb)10. Literary Theory and Criticism (Daniel Altamiranda)11. Literary Reviews: A Bibliographical Essay (Luis H. PeÑa)12. Mexican and Mexican American Literary Relations (Manuel de JesÚs HernÁndez-GutiÉrrez)Index

David William Foster (1940–2020) was Regents' Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University.

Prior to the publication of the present volume, surprisingly few first-rate overviews of Mexican literature were available to students and scholars. Now those seeking to enhance their knowledge of the various centuries and genres of Mexican letters have an excellent source at hand. . . . David William Foster is to be commended for having edited an extremely useful volume on a broad and fascinating subject. (World Literature Today)

• Preface (David William Foster)1. Pre-Columbian Literatures (Joanna O’Connell)2. The Colonial Period (Lee H. Dowling)3. Romanticism (Margarita Vargas)4. Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction (Mario MartÍn-Flores)5. Modernism (Bart L. Lewis)6. Twentieth-Century Poetry (Adriana GarcÍa)7. Twentieth-Century Theater (Kirsten F. Nigro)8. Twentieth-Century Fiction (Lanin A. Gyurko)9. The Essay (Martin S. Stabb)10. Literary Theory and Criticism (Daniel Altamiranda)11. Literary Reviews: A Bibliographical Essay (Luis H. PeÑa)12. Mexican and Mexican American Literary Relations (Manuel de JesÚs HernÁndez-GutiÉrrez)Index