El Pez y la Flecha. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias

Nota editorial

2025-03-31T17:52:56+00:00

Pensadas como registro, instrumento y estrategia, las revistas definen, en parte, el campo literario. Son unidades de significación que revelan los entresijos de la formación del sistema literario e intelectual; un mecanismo discursivo que crea espacios de confluencias y disensos políticos, estéticos e intelectuales. Es posible entenderlas, también, como el diagnóstico de su tiempo: evocan el clima intelectual y político de una época. La aparición de una revista revela la necesidad de un escritor, o de un grupo de escritores, de influir en el ámbito cultural, dice Sarlo. Resulta importante estudiar y analizar las revistas desde la coyuntura en que se producen, es decir, estudiar sus prácticas de circulación y producción.

Felipe Ríos Baeza. (2023). La letra ensimismada. Nuevos ensayos de literatura hispanoamericana

2025-04-01T03:24:00+00:00

Felipe Ríos Baeza. (2023). La letra ensimismada. Nuevos ensayos de literatura hispanoamericana. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-607-59362-3-9. Querétaro: Universidad Anáhuac Querétaro/Rialta Ediciones.

Al observar la literatura, el crítico se enfrenta a una tarea interpretativa, lo que conlleva un ejercicio de traducción. En “Leer es como traducir”, h. g. Gadamer explica que dicha operación se lleva a cabo en cada lector: pasar de una orilla a otra en el mar de significaciones. Sin embargo, navegar de orilla a orilla requiere de una serie de instrumentos que permitan observar con detenimiento. Felipe Ríos Baeza, doctor en Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, explora en La letra ensimismada. Nuevos ensayos de literatura hispanoamericana (2023), algunas líneas de observación a la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea, que además de ser escurridiza –como él mismo explica– presenta retos para su interpretación. En esta obra, el académico analiza y reflexiona en torno a una literatura que habla de sí misma y que muestra sus propios procedimientos, envueltos en un juego metatextual.

Pamela Vicenteño Bravo y Yuliana Rivera Juárez (Eds.). 2024. José Tomás de Cuéllar: Obras, T. XIV. Periodismo III. Historietas (1869-1884). Vistazos (1874-1892)

2025-04-01T03:26:19+00:00

Pamela Vicenteño Bravo y Yuliana Rivera Juárez (Eds.). 2024. José Tomás de Cuéllar: Obras, t. XIV. Periodismo III. Historietas (1869-1884). Vistazos (1874-1892). Estudio preliminar, notas e índices de Pamela Vicenteño Bravo y Yuliana Rivera Juárez. ISBN: Obra completa 978-607-32-4929-9. isbn: Tomo xiv 978-607-30-9240-1. CXCIV + 268 pp. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Acaba de aparecer este volumen como parte del “Proyecto Obras de José Tomás de Cuéllar”, gracias al apoyo de la Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico y del Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Esta edición crítica, al igual que las otras de este “Proyecto”, viene precedida por la “Advertencia editorial” (pp. xi-xxvi) y las novedosas “Claves bibliográficas” (pp. xxix-lxiv), las cuales se han organizado con un criterio específico para localizar el cuerpo de referencias que fueron utilizadas en la edición. Belem Clark de Lara ha señalado, al explicar dicho “Proyecto”, que con la presencia de las ediciones críticas y su contexto histórico, político y cultural la figura de José Tomás de Cuéllar (Facundo) puede ahora ser considerada como la de “un intelectual que comprendió el proceso evolutivo del país y denunció el comienzo del espejismo modernizador iniciado durante la presidencia de Benito Juárez y definitorio del Porfiriato” (p. xiii).

Manuel de la Sierra. (2024). Obras literarias

2025-04-01T03:28:41+00:00

Manuel de la Sierra. (2024). Obras literarias. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-607-59-0443-6. Ciudad de México: El Colegio de San Luis/Bonilla Artigas Editores.

Entre las letras reconocidas de la literatura mexicana del siglo XIX, es común oír de autores como Fernández de Lizardi, José Tomás Cuéllar, Ángel de Campo, Manuel Payno, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Vicente Riva Palacio o Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera –por nombrar algunos–, en cuya narrativa, sin dejar de lado sus particularidades, podemos encontrar un elemento conductor que los caracteriza: la función de lo literario en torno a la construcción de nación o la moral.

The Configuration of Literary Space in El Mosaico Mexicano (1836-1842)

2025-04-01T02:26:22+00:00

The magazine El Mosaico Mexicano was an influential but politically controversial periodical at its peak. The intellectual elite of the time contributed to this magazine, which, over its seven volumes, reveals phenomena crucial for understanding the early nineteenth century: literary transfers, evident in the numerous translations, and the appropriation achieved through the “Mexicanization” of topics and techniques in the original texts. This study examines the publication circumstances and the reading of well-known texts, as well as the genres and thematic concerns of the century.

España Pintoresca, Artística, Monumental, Literaria y de Costumbres, the Ignored Interlocutor of the First Mexican Costumbrismo

2025-04-01T02:51:07+00:00

The defining orientation and development of costumbrismo in Mexico occurred between approximately 1843 and 1855, a period during which the portraits of types and paintings of costumbrismo and monumental scenes published in newspapers and cultural magazines contributed to the articulation and dissemination of a discourse and an image of Mexico and the Mexican. The model of picturesque costumbrismo proposed by Ramón de Mesonero Romanos and his minions played an important role in this defining process, especially after the socialization they had in Mexico thanks to the publication of España Pintoresca, Artística, Monumental, Literaria y de Costumbres (1843-1844).

The Idea of Iturbide and of Hidalgo in Two Historical Novels and Two Historiographic Texts by Manuel Payno

2025-04-01T02:59:18+00:00

Based on the review of four texts by Manuel Payno, two historical novels and two historiographical articles, published in newspapers and magazines, I make an analysis of the way in which this nineteenth-century author presents two very important characters for the history of Mexico: one for being the initiator of Independence of México, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, and the other for being the one who ended the conflict, Agustín de Iturbide. The starting point is the hypothesis that Payno makes his proposal according to the possibilities inherent in fictional discourse and historical discourse, possibilities that allow him to mean the historical moments referred.

Between Tradition and Modernity: Flor de Lis (1896-1898), Literary Magazine of Guadalajara

2025-04-01T03:02:14+00:00

The magazine Flor de Lis (1896-1898), published in the capital of Jalisco at the end of the 19th century, is a kind of newspaper rarity, since it is a publication almost unknown in literary historiography despite the fact that works by importance for the formation of the Mexican literary canon and various aesthetic ideas of the time were discussed. The aim of this article is not to rescue the magazine, but to show how it fits into a global discussion about the state of the art and the place that literature had to occupy in the accelerated turn of the century and Latin American modernism. It shows how the publication responds, precisely, to a certain intellectual materialism of the time.

“Poeta petardo y crítico... con cataratas”: An Invective Against Ramón López Velarde in Veracruz Moderno (1909)

2025-04-01T03:05:19+00:00

On March 7, 1909, in Veracruz Moderno, La Opinión’s sunday supplement, was published a harsh critic against an unknown young poet: Ramón López Velarde. The critic tears apart the poem “Canonización”, afterwards included in La sangre devota, and a review on Juan B. Delgado, both published in the magazine Nosotros. This article examines this unknown or forgotten criticism, the first made against who would become one of the majors poets of Mexico in the 20th century.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Two 19th Century Magazines

2025-04-01T03:08:47+00:00

Based on archival research and philological analysis, this article aims to recover, evaluate and put into circulation data from two period magazines published in the United States that refer to the past and at the same time update information regarding the knowledge and recognition of the life and work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Specifically, the rescue of a reading testimony and the translation and edition of the poem “Hombres necios que acusáis” is proposed. The New York magazines from which we start update and clarify information from the past. The important thing, it seems to me, is to have arrived –from “women’s” magazines– to what seems to be the first translation into English of Sor Juana’s “foolish men.”

Femenine Old Age and Madness in the Mexican Literary Press (Nineteenth-Century)

2025-04-01T03:11:32+00:00

Mexican literary magazines of the 19th century were conceived as devices that promulgated slogans for the civic and moral formation of the reader. They abound in references to women’s education. The aim of this article is to identify the mechanisms of enunciation of social warnings related to female old age and madness in the narrative of the literary press of the time and their visual accompaniments. It is concluded that women are attributed with the propensity for social contempt and their image is equivalent to that of a being in need of observance in order to preserve the established family model.

Surveys, Maps and Posters: Artvertising in Magazines, from Modernismo to the Avant-garde

2025-04-01T03:15:49+00:00

The article aims to offer first steps to future more systematical transnational comparative studies on Hispanic modernisms from fin de siècle to the avant-gardes. It discusses the relationship between visual culture and advertising in cultural periodicals of the Spanish speaking areas on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly during the period of modernismo and the Avant-gardes. It explores the continuities of self-promotional strategies of the arts and the use of commercial advertising for this aim –artvertising–, but also the geopolitical changes from the modernist ideal of a Paris-centered cosmopolitism to more diverse cultural politics of avant-garde internationalism.

Tradition and Change: Magazines of History in Mexico in the Mid-twentieth Century

2025-04-01T03:19:18+00:00

Journals have been the subject of multiple interpretations from different disciplines and their nomenclatures, as well as their characteristics, continue to be the subject of debate. What is certain is that they are already an autonomous object of study and deserve to be further explored. In this case, the intention is to provoke a debate on academic journals from an early period in our country –mid-20th century. We take as an example the Revista de Historia de América, founded by the historian Silvio Zavala, in 1938, to transform the practice of history from a new scientific perspective. The reflective function of this text means that the intention is not to expand on this publication, but to ask how academic journals emerge and from that, to think about what they share with other types of journals. As a final reflection, we suggest that, unlike what we observe in current academic journals, their predecessors from the mid-20th century had more in common with other publications of the time than with current scientific journals.