Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis

Strategic Occidentalism. Mexican Fiction and the Question of National World Literatures


Using the idea of a “national world literature” and the examples of Mexican fiction from the 1960s to 2000s, and the ideas set forward in Sánchez Prado’s recent book Strategic Occidentalism, the paper will argue for a study of world literature “from below” that uses sociologies of literature as base method and is attentive to the way in which the world is contingently constructed in the imaginaries of concrete literary fields.

Thursday, November 15 at 4:00pm
821 Anderson Hall

Co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, Lectures and Forums Committee, Global Studies Program, and Department of Sociology.