A History of the Mexican Novel

Anna M. Nogar is Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Units. She specializes in colonial Mexican and Mexican American cultural and literary studies, with a focus on New Mexico. Her recent book publications include: El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y Prosa (UNM 2021); Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present (Notre Dame 2018); Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries (U Arizona 2014); A History of Mexican Literature (2016); A History of Mexican Poetry (2024); and A History of the Mexican Novel (2026). Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of eight books including Taco (Bloomsbury, 2025), Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018) and Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (Vanderbilt UP, 2014). The most recent of his seventeen edited collections are Teaching the Mexican Revolution (MLA, 2026) and World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures, co-edited with Gesine Müller (DeGruyter 2025). He has published over one-hundred academic articles and chapters in journals and scholarly books across the Americas, Europe and Asia. He served as the Kluge Chair for the Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress in 2021. José Ramón Ruisánchez is Professor of Latin American Literature and Theory at the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Houston. He is the author of Historias que regresan: topología y renarración en la primera mitad del siglo XX mexicano (2012), La reconciliación: Roberto Bolaño y la liteartura de amistad en América Latina (2019) and of the complementary book-length essays Pozos (2015) and Torres (2021). He has coedited for Cambridge A History of Mexican Literature (2016) and A History of Mexican Poetry (2024), both with Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Anna Nogar.

• Introduction; Anna Nogar, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado and José Ramón Ruisánchez; 1. The Mexican colonial novel and novel culture Anna Nogar; 2. The bibliographic muse. Mexican literature and the colonial archive David Horacio Colmenares; 3. Picaresque narratives in Mexico Jorge Téllez; 4. The novel and the people. Politics, representation and the form Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón; 5. Serialization and the Mexican novel Amy Wright; 6. The long novel José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra; 7. The novel border: nineteenth century novels on Mexico's edges Cara Kinnally; 8. The novel of the Mexican revolution. The invention and performance of a genre Danaé Torres de la Rosa; 9. Fictions of rural crisis Rafael Acosta Morales; 10. High modernist totalities Brian Price; 11. Countercultures and undergrounds Rodrigo García de la Sienra; 12. Currents, not waves: women and the politics of gender in the Mexican novel of the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries Emily Hind; 13. The novel and the cultural politics of LGBTQ representations Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba; 14. The novel, from indigenistas to indigenous Paul Worley and Luz Lepe Lira; 15. Narrations of otherness. The novel and race beyond Mestizaje. B. Christine Arce and Lorella Di Gregorio; 16. The Mexican American and Chicano/a/x novel in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries Karen Roybal; 17. The novel in the era of mass media. Science fictions, detective fictions, graphic novels and the edges of the genre Vinodh Venkatesh; 18. The Mexican novel and the necropolitical Oswaldo Zavala; 19. The novel and new media Craig Epplin; 20. Editorial conglomeration and the kingdom of the self: the novel in the twenty-first century Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.