Literatura Mexicana is an open-access journal that aims to spread the knowledge about Mexican literary culture, understood as the texts which integrated it from the 16th Century until today, as well as its authors, genres, formats, readers and the ideas conveyed through processes that have been set into motion by some of these elements. Literatura Mexicana publishes articles, textual recoveries, research notes and contemporary reviews. Literatura Mexicana stands also for the intellectual exchanging networks among scholars from diverse locations, fields of study and theoretical approaches. The journal is addressed to an audience made up by different scholar communities in Mexico and several other countries whose field of study is the Mexican literary culture.
The journal does only publish rigorously unpublished texts, which provide ideas in order to foster an open and permanent dialogue. Contributions submitted to our Editorial Office may be written in Spanish, English or French. The journal conducts a peer review process according to the double blind model.
Literatura Mexicana is edited by the Center for Literary Studies at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and is distributed in both print and digital formats.
Current Issue
Vol. 36 No. 1 (2025)
In this issue of Mexican Literature, the reader will find a selection of articles, ranging from the 18th century, starting with a work as interesting as Noticia chronologica by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; continuing with two 19th century articles on the novel Perucho hijo del Periquillo to learn about the impact and diffusion of El Rāmāyaṇa in Mexico. Later, already in the 20th century, an article appears on the work of Nellie Campobello. In addition, the reader will be able to delight in having "gazelle vision" or "hyena suspicion" when reading Animal Realities in the contemporary bestiaries of Juan José Arreola, José Emilio Pacheco and René Avilés Fabila. Finally, he will navigate through a fragmentary and very interesting novel, that is, El miedo de perder a Euródice by Julieta Campos and we close with a glimpse of Elmer Mendoza's La prueba delácido. In conclusion, you will find 5 reviews: Felipe Reyes Palacios.Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza. Comedies I (Introductory study, edition and notes) Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, New Mexican Library 193, 2023 by Esther Martínez Luna (Institute of Philological Research, UNAM); María Andrea Giovine Yáñez and Álvaro Ruiz Rodilla (coords.). Constancy of the fugacity. Contributions to the history of cultural journalism in Mexico, 20th century. Mexico: Institute of Bibliographic Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2023. Author: Miguel Ángel Hernández Acosta (Institute of Philological Research, UNAM, Mexico); Carlos Ulises Mata (edition, introduction and notes) Chained to this absence. Ten unpublished letters by José Gorostiza. Mexico: Monte Carmelo Editions, 2023. Author: José Manuel Mateo (Institute of Philological Research, UNAM); Cristina Rivera Garza. The Broken Precedes the Whole. 125 Infra-essays, Houston, Literal Publishing, 2021. Author: Andrés Olaizola IIBICRIR/SECRIT (CONICET) – CEI (UNR). and Alejandro Lámbarry. Jorge Ibargüengoitia: A Writer in Ruins. Literary Biography. Guanajuato: University of Guanajuato, 2002. Author: José Eduardo Serrato Córdova (Institute of Philological Research, UNAM).
Published: 2025-01-31