Naciones intelectuales
Subtitle: las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria Mexicana, 1917-1959
By: by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado.
Series: Purdue studies in romance literatures
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: spa
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781557535382
Subjects: Mexican literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Mexico -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; National characteristics, Mexican, in literature
Description: "Naciones Intelectuales explores the processes and works that laid the foundations of a new literary modernity in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. It focuses on the period from the signing of the Constitution in 1917, to the death of Alfonso Reyes in 1959, and analyzes the four elements of Mexican cultural practices: the notion of literature, the figure of the intellectual, the creation of academic institutions, and the definition of national identity that emerged through the various debates held by leading figures of the period. The book analyzes different key moments, controversies, and cultural interventions, which ultimately led the diverse aesthetic spectrum created by the revolution into becoming a highly institutional system of literature. This book offers a cartography of Mexican literary institutions unprecedented in scope, which will allow readers, students, and scholars to understand the construction of modern Mexican literature in a clear, rigorous, and systematic way."--Publisher's website.