Ignacio M Sánchez Prado
Biographic Data
| ID | 610617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ignacio M Sánchez Prado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ignacio M Sánchez |
| FAMILY NAME | Prado |
| SIGNATURE | PRADO I M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6466-4485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Capital
John Guillory's Cultural Capital (1993) is a peculiar and instructive reading for a scholar of Mexican and Latin American literature in the US academy. A fellow Bourdieusian, I have always admired Guillory's account of power and economic differentials in the material work of literature in education. The book continues to be bold and timely thanks to its way of raising the question of the literary canon in academia critically but without conceding…
Endless Proliferations of Signifiers
This piece argues that Mexican literary and cultural studies are on the verge of a series of paradigm changes. The essay begins with an imagined walk through Mexico City to illustrate the ways in which scholarship can 'think' a space. The essay later proceeds to with engage three questions in the field of cultural studies in Mexico: questions of method and transdisciplinarity, subjectivities following new ways of thinking race and gender and temp…
Cantinflas and World Literature
This paper explores two adaptations of world literature starred by Mexican comedian Cantinflas: Los tres mosqueteros (1942) and Romeo y Julieta (1943). Comedic adaptation of world literature is essential for the development of cinema as an instrument of popular cosmopolitanism, which democratizes and massifies world literature in Mexico. From this angle, I argue for the idea of popular cosmopolitanism as a category to describe film industries whe…
Art under Neoliberalism
Apart from the longstanding and much-debated problem of art's commodification, how does neoliberalism transform and determine the conditions of artistic practice? Further, if neoliberalism is a substantially distinct stage in the history of capitalism, and not merely its intensification, what are the implications of this new condition for the practice and criticism of contemporary art? What does it mean to practice and theorize art, to be an arti…
Diana Kennedy, Rick Bayless and the Imagination of ‘Authentic’ Mexican Food
This article studies the ways in which the idea of ‘authenticity’ is built and shaped through cultural discourse in Mexican food. The article engages with the intellectual origins of the concept of ‘authenticity’ and the ideologies it carries, in order to study the ways in which it operates in relation to Mexican food. To achieve this, the article focuses on two foreign cooks who have contributed to the naturalization of ‘authenticity’ as a value…
The Persistence of the Transcultural
This essay engages with the questions of the global novel and the so-called theory of the novel from the perspective of Latin American literary theory. The first section of the essay departs from Roberto Fernández Retamar's arguments about literary theory to discuss the importance of understanding the location of theory, and the way it makes objects like the global novel thinkable solely from the perspective of the (dis)alignments of Latin Americ…
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture
Strategic Occidentalism
Mexican Literature in Theory
"Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and by the theoretical sophistication of their scholarship. Mexican Literature in Theory provides the reader with two contributions. First, it is one of th…
Strategic Occidentalism
Mexican Film Otherwise. Luis Buñuel, La India María and Critical Readings Beyond the 'Golden Age
Through the reading of Marc Ripley's book on Luis Buñuel and Seraina Rohrer's book on La India María, this review reflects on the ways in which criticism and historiography on Mexican cinema gradually break away from paradigms focused on the Golden Age
La casa del dolor ajeno de Julián Herbert. No-ficción, memoria e historicidad en el México contemporáneo
La casa del dolor ajeno de Julián Herbert.No-ficción, memoria e historicidad en el México contemporáneo Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado En su seminal ensayo "Narrating the Neoliberal Moment," Claudio Lomnitz observa la emergencia, a partir de la crisis económica de 1982, de un "exceso de historia" donde el pasado se convertía en una fuente inagotable de imágenes para el discurso de esa sociedad civil imaginada por el neoliberalismo mexicano. De acuerdo …
A History of Mexican Literature
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 essa…
El arte de la violencia sistémica. La explotación neoliberal como estética y mercancía en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
El arte de la violencia sistémica.La explotación neoliberal como estética y mercancía en el cine mexicano contemporáneo Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado La persistencia de lo violento como mecanismo de representación en el cine mexicano, es, como sucede en otras cinematografías del sur global, una marca de la compleja articulación existente entre sus ideologías representacionales y su relación como estética y mercancía al capitalismo neoliberal. El linch…
The Limitations of the Sensible
Additional informationNotes on contributorsIgnacio M. Sánchez PradoIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is Associate Professor of Spanish and International and Area Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the author of El canon y sus formas. La reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (2002), Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917–1959) (2009), winn…
Temporalities in Latin American Film
Temporalities in Latin American Film Joanna Page and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Is there anything distinctively Latin American about the construction of temporality in Latin American film? The existence of this special section would seem to beg the question. The reader might reasonably wonder if some unifying features will emerge from the diversity of films explored here—and our critical responses to them—that draw on common frameworks or bear witn…
Los intelectuales públicos en América Latina
Los intelectuales públicos en América LatinaLa fluidez de un concepto Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (bio) Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics. Editado por Juan E. De Castro y Nicholas Birns. Nueva York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xi + 235. $89.00 tapa dura. ISBN: 9780230105294. Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America. Por Maarten van Delden e Yvon Grenier. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 294…
Estrategias para mirar la nación. El giro visual de los estudios culturales mexicanos en lengua inglesa
Campbell, Bruce. ¡Viva la historieta! Mexican Comics, NAFTA and the Politics of Globalization. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 234 pp
Entre hombres
Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures (review)
Claiming Liberalism
This article analyzes the impact that Enrique Krauze, Vuelta and Letras Libres have had in the reconfiguration of the figure of the public intellectual in Mexico, as well as their role in the formulation of liberalism from Mexico. The article traces the different configurations of intellectual practice implicit in both magazines, as well as the intellectual genealogies traced both by the different authors published by them, and by the intellectua…
Vanguardia y campo literario
La destrucción de la escritura viril y el ingreso de la mujer al discurso literario
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, La destrucción de la escritura viril y el ingreso de la mujer al discurso literario: El libro vacío y Los recuerdos del Porvenir, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 32, No. 63/64 (2006), pp. 149-167
Amores Perros
La sed
Amores Perros
Diana Kennedy, Rick Bayless and the Imagination of ‘Authentic’ Mexican Food
This article studies the ways in which the idea of ‘authenticity’ is built and shaped through cultural discourse in Mexican food. The article engages with the intellectual origins of the concept of ‘authenticity’ and the ideologies it carries, in order to study the ways in which it operates in relation to Mexican food. To achieve this, the article focuses on two foreign cooks who have contributed to the naturalization of ‘authenticity’ as a value…
Mexican Film Otherwise. Luis Buñuel, La India María and Critical Readings Beyond the 'Golden Age
Through the reading of Marc Ripley's book on Luis Buñuel and Seraina Rohrer's book on La India María, this review reflects on the ways in which criticism and historiography on Mexican cinema gradually break away from paradigms focused on the Golden Age
Estrategias para mirar la nación. El giro visual de los estudios culturales mexicanos en lengua inglesa
Campbell, Bruce. ¡Viva la historieta! Mexican Comics, NAFTA and the Politics of Globalization. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 234 pp
Claiming Liberalism
This article analyzes the impact that Enrique Krauze, Vuelta and Letras Libres have had in the reconfiguration of the figure of the public intellectual in Mexico, as well as their role in the formulation of liberalism from Mexico. The article traces the different configurations of intellectual practice implicit in both magazines, as well as the intellectual genealogies traced both by the different authors published by them, and by the intellectua…
Amphitryon
Paraíso clausurado
La sed
La destrucción de la escritura viril y el ingreso de la mujer al discurso literario
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, La destrucción de la escritura viril y el ingreso de la mujer al discurso literario: El libro vacío y Los recuerdos del Porvenir, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 32, No. 63/64 (2006), pp. 149-167
Amores Perros
Vanguardia y campo literario
Entre hombres
Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures (review)
Claiming Liberalism
This article analyzes the impact that Enrique Krauze, Vuelta and Letras Libres have had in the reconfiguration of the figure of the public intellectual in Mexico, as well as their role in the formulation of liberalism from Mexico. The article traces the different configurations of intellectual practice implicit in both magazines, as well as the intellectual genealogies traced both by the different authors published by them, and by the intellectua…
Estrategias para mirar la nación. El giro visual de los estudios culturales mexicanos en lengua inglesa
Campbell, Bruce. ¡Viva la historieta! Mexican Comics, NAFTA and the Politics of Globalization. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 234 pp
Temporalities in Latin American Film
Temporalities in Latin American Film Joanna Page and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Is there anything distinctively Latin American about the construction of temporality in Latin American film? The existence of this special section would seem to beg the question. The reader might reasonably wonder if some unifying features will emerge from the diversity of films explored here—and our critical responses to them—that draw on common frameworks or bear witn…
Los intelectuales públicos en América Latina
Los intelectuales públicos en América LatinaLa fluidez de un concepto Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (bio) Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics. Editado por Juan E. De Castro y Nicholas Birns. Nueva York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xi + 235. $89.00 tapa dura. ISBN: 9780230105294. Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America. Por Maarten van Delden e Yvon Grenier. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 294…
The Limitations of the Sensible
Additional informationNotes on contributorsIgnacio M. Sánchez PradoIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is Associate Professor of Spanish and International and Area Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the author of El canon y sus formas. La reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (2002), Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917–1959) (2009), winn…
A History of Mexican Literature
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 essa…
El arte de la violencia sistémica. La explotación neoliberal como estética y mercancía en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
El arte de la violencia sistémica.La explotación neoliberal como estética y mercancía en el cine mexicano contemporáneo Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado La persistencia de lo violento como mecanismo de representación en el cine mexicano, es, como sucede en otras cinematografías del sur global, una marca de la compleja articulación existente entre sus ideologías representacionales y su relación como estética y mercancía al capitalismo neoliberal. El linch…
La casa del dolor ajeno de Julián Herbert. No-ficción, memoria e historicidad en el México contemporáneo
La casa del dolor ajeno de Julián Herbert.No-ficción, memoria e historicidad en el México contemporáneo Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado En su seminal ensayo "Narrating the Neoliberal Moment," Claudio Lomnitz observa la emergencia, a partir de la crisis económica de 1982, de un "exceso de historia" donde el pasado se convertía en una fuente inagotable de imágenes para el discurso de esa sociedad civil imaginada por el neoliberalismo mexicano. De acuerdo …
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture
Strategic Occidentalism
Mexican Literature in Theory
"Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and by the theoretical sophistication of their scholarship. Mexican Literature in Theory provides the reader with two contributions. First, it is one of th…
Strategic Occidentalism
Mexican Film Otherwise. Luis Buñuel, La India María and Critical Readings Beyond the 'Golden Age
Through the reading of Marc Ripley's book on Luis Buñuel and Seraina Rohrer's book on La India María, this review reflects on the ways in which criticism and historiography on Mexican cinema gradually break away from paradigms focused on the Golden Age
Diana Kennedy, Rick Bayless and the Imagination of ‘Authentic’ Mexican Food
This article studies the ways in which the idea of ‘authenticity’ is built and shaped through cultural discourse in Mexican food. The article engages with the intellectual origins of the concept of ‘authenticity’ and the ideologies it carries, in order to study the ways in which it operates in relation to Mexican food. To achieve this, the article focuses on two foreign cooks who have contributed to the naturalization of ‘authenticity’ as a value…
The Persistence of the Transcultural
This essay engages with the questions of the global novel and the so-called theory of the novel from the perspective of Latin American literary theory. The first section of the essay departs from Roberto Fernández Retamar's arguments about literary theory to discuss the importance of understanding the location of theory, and the way it makes objects like the global novel thinkable solely from the perspective of the (dis)alignments of Latin Americ…
Cantinflas and World Literature
This paper explores two adaptations of world literature starred by Mexican comedian Cantinflas: Los tres mosqueteros (1942) and Romeo y Julieta (1943). Comedic adaptation of world literature is essential for the development of cinema as an instrument of popular cosmopolitanism, which democratizes and massifies world literature in Mexico. From this angle, I argue for the idea of popular cosmopolitanism as a category to describe film industries whe…
Art under Neoliberalism
Apart from the longstanding and much-debated problem of art's commodification, how does neoliberalism transform and determine the conditions of artistic practice? Further, if neoliberalism is a substantially distinct stage in the history of capitalism, and not merely its intensification, what are the implications of this new condition for the practice and criticism of contemporary art? What does it mean to practice and theorize art, to be an arti…
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