What Do You Know About Mexican Lit?
with Prof. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Contemporary Mexican literature is receiving long overdue attention from US readers. Accolades from US and UK institutions are bringing authors such as Valeria Luiselli, Fernanda Melchor, and Cristina Rivera Garza into the spotlight for English-language readers. Likewise in Mexico, female authors are being recognized by a literary tradition that has long favored and revered male authors
Is Mexican literature finally getting the audience it deserves? Are women at the heart of this movement? How do we acknowledge the translators and publishers who are making work accessible and available?
Join us for an interactive conversation about contemporary Mexican literature that not only attempts to ask and answers these questions and more, but provides recommendations—in English and Spanish—for books you should be reading, both published and forthcoming.
This event, hosted by Lit & Luz Book Club Director, Miguel Jiménez, will also offer a sneak peak into the 2021 Book Club!
The Participants:
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. A scholar of Mexican literature, cinema and culture, he has published seven authored books and over one-hundred academic articles. His most recent books are Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2018) and Intermitencias alfonsinas. Ensayos y estudios escogidos (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2019). He has also edited fourteen critical collections, including A History of Mexican Literature (with José Ramón Ruisánchez and Anna Nogar, Cambridge University Press, 2016) and the forthcoming Mexican Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury 2021). His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, El Universal and other publications. He will be the Kluge Chair of the Cultures of the South in the Library of Congress during the summer of 2021.
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado es el titular de la cátedra distinguida Jarvis Thurston y Mona van Duyn en Humanidades en Washington University in St. Louis. Como profesor-investigador en el campo en torno a la literatura, el cine y la cultura de México, ha publicado siete libros y más de cien artículos académicos. Sus libros más recientes son: Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2018) e Intermitencias alfonsinas. Ensayos y estudios escogidos (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2019). Como editor, ha publicado catorce colecciones críticas, incluyendo including A History of Mexican Literature (with José Ramón Ruisánchez and Anna Nogar, Cambridge University Press, 2016) y Mexican Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury 2021), de próxima aparición. Ha contribuido en diversos medios periodísticos, incluyendo The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, El Universal y otras publicaciones. Será el titular de la Kluge Chair of the Cultures of the South en la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos durante el verano de 2021.
Miguel Jiménez is a writer and professor. He lives in Chicago.
Miguel Jiménez es un escritor y professor. Vive en Chicago.
An interactive conversation
Tuesday, April 20th
7:30 PM CST
Virtual, Free
In English with Spanish translation / En inglés con traducción al español
