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Winner of the 2022 International Latino Book Award: Bronze Medal
for Fiction Translation, Spanish to English El feliz ingenio
neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe
Maximiliano Chacón, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesía y prosa, the
first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author.
Journalist and author Felipe M. Chacón, part of a distinguished
and active family of nuevomexicano authors, published the book in
1924. El feliz ingenio neomexicano (that "inspired New Mexican
wit") reestablishes Chacón's work and his reputation by making the
text widely available to readers for the first time in nearly a
century. With Nogar and Meléndez's excellent translation of the
text, this bilingual volume offers access to both English and
Spanish editions for scholars and students from a variety of
disciplines. Additionally, the in-depth introduction and appendix
materials gathered by the editors place Chacón's book in the
context of the time in which it was printed, offering a unique
insight into the work. A welcome volume for scholars and literature
lovers alike, El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a groundbreaking work
of literary recuperation.
El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of
Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacon, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesia y
prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican
American author. Journalist and author Felipe M. Chacon, part of a
distinguished and active family of nuevomexicano authors, published
the book in 1924. El feliz ingenio neomexicano (that "inspired New
Mexican wit") reestablishes Chacon's work and his reputation by
making the text widely available to readers for the first time in
nearly a century. With Nogar and Melendez's excellent translation
of the text, this bilingual volume offers access to both English
and Spanish editions for scholars and students from a variety of
disciplines. Additionally, the in-depth introduction and appendix
materials gathered by the editors place Chacon's book in the
context of the time in which it was printed, offering a unique
insight into the work. A welcome volume for scholars and literature
lovers alike, El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a groundbreaking work
of literary recuperation.
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred
years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the
seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor Maria de Jesus de
Agreda, identified as the legendary "Lady in Blue" who miraculously
appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the
rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor Maria, an author of mystical
Marian works, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual
travel from her cloister in Spain to the New World, but also for
her writing, studied and implemented by Franciscans on both sides
of the ocean. Working from original historical accounts, archival
research, and a wealth of literature on the legend and the
historical figure alike, Anna M. Nogar meticulously examines how
and why the legend and the person became intertwined in Catholic
consciousness and social praxis. In addition to the influence of
the narrative of the Lady in Blue in colonial Mexico, Nogar
addresses Sor Maria's importance as an author of spiritual texts
that influenced many spheres of New Spanish and Spanish society.
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands focuses on the reading and
interpretation of her works, especially in New Spain, where they
were widely printed and disseminated. Over time, in the developing
folklore of the Indo-Hispano populations of the present-day U.S.
Southwest and the borderlands, the historical Sor Maria and her
writings virtually disappeared from view, and the Lady in Blue
became a prominent folk figure, appearing in folk stories and
popular histories. These folk accounts drew the Lady in Blue into
the present day, where she appears in artwork, literature, theater,
and public ritual. Nogar's examination of these contemporary
renderings leads to a reconsideration of the ambiguities that lie
at the heart of the narrative. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands
documents the material legacy of a legend that has survived and
thrived for hundreds of years, and at the same time rediscovers the
historical basis of a hidden writer. This book will interest
scholars and researchers of colonial Latin American literature,
early modern women writers, folklore and ethnopoetics, and Mexican
American cultural studies.
A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five
hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary
culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the
twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that
charts the development of a complex canon, this History includes
extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political
intricacies of Mexican literature. Organized thematically, these
essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse
writers as Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mariano Azuela, Xavier
Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. Written by a host of leading
scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the
lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in Mexican
literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development
of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for
specialists and students alike.
Sisters in Blue tells the story of two young women-one Spanish, one
Puebloan-meeting across space and time. Sor Maria de Jesus de
Agreda, New Mexico's famous Lady in Blue, is said to have traveled
to New Mexico in the seventeenth century. Here Anna M. Nogar and
Enrique R. Lamadrid bring her to life, imagining an encounter
between a Pueblo woman and Sor Maria during the nun's mystical
spiritual journeys. Tales of Sor Maria, who described traveling
across the earth and the heavens, have traditionally presented her
as an evangelist who helped bring Catholicism to the Pueblos.
Instead this book, which includes an essay providing historical
context, shows a connection between Sor Maria and her friend Paf
Sheuri. The two women find more similarities than differences in
their shared experiences, and what they learn from each other has
an impact for centuries to come.
The rewritings of the Mexican colonia discussed in this book
question a present reality of marginalities and inequality, of
imposed political domination, and of hybrid subjectivities. In
their examination of the novels, films, poetry, and chronicles
produced in and outside of Mexico since 2000, the critics included
in Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico produce new
interpretations, alternative readings, and different angles of
analysis that extend far beyond the theories of the new historical
novel of the eighties and nineties, and well beyond the limits of
the novel as re-creative genre.
Through a transformative interdisciplinary lens, this book studies
the ultra-contemporary chronicles of Carlos Monsivais, the poetry
of Carmen Boullosa and Luis Felipe Fabre, and the novels of Enrique
Serna, Hector de Mauleon, Monica Lavin, and Pablo Soler Frost,
among others. The book also pays close attention to a good sample
of recent children's literature that revisit Mexico's colonia. It
includes the transatlantic perspective of Spanish novelist Inma
Chacon, and a detailed analysis of the strategies employed by Laura
Esquivel in the creation of a best seller. Other chapters are
devoted to the study of transnational film productions, a play by
Flavio Gonzalez Mello, and a set of novels set in the
nineteenth-century colonia that problematize static notions of both
personal and national identity within specific cultural
palimpsests. Taken together, these incisive readings open broader
conversations about Mexican coloniality as it continues well into
the twenty-first century.
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