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        Critical Mexican Studies

        Critical Mexican Studies is the first English-language, humanities-based academic monograph series devoted to the study of Mexico. The series is a space for innovative works in the humanities that focus on theoretical analysis, transdisciplinary interventions, and original conceptual framing.


        Critical Mexican Studies will feature books that question the many received ideas that shape the field of Mexican studies, from the focus on the connections between identity and nation (the topic of Mexicanness that has pervaded the field for decades) to the favored historiographic and philological approaches that have long defined significant portions of the field. Texts that approach Mexico with a more theoretical-conceptual bent or that seek to transgress the methodologies of the dominant disciplines will find a home here. The series seeks projects that engage Mexico through contemporary theoretical conversations—on necropolitics, disability, and queer theory, for example—or books that place Mexico as a site of departure and articulation of new theoretical paradigms like critical race theory, sovereign power, and the posthuman. Books in this series will develop conceptual discussions of interest above and beyond the field of Mexicanism.


        The Critical Mexican Studies series is looking for the following types of work: 1) Monographs by emerging and established scholars focused on Mexico and defined by their theoretical originality and the promise of opening new avenues in Mexican Studies; 2) Carefully curated edited collections that define the state of the field at given points in time or that gather the most talented people in the field to discuss a particular concept; 3) Original or translated work by Mexican theorists and scholars. Although the series would be open to books in defined fields—such as literary or media studies—Critical Mexican Studies seeks works performing transdisciplinary, intermedial, and creatively theoretical research.


        Series Editor

        Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in Humanities, Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Latin American Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988–2012 (available in English and Spanish editions from Vanderbilt University Press).


        Series Launch

        Watch Cristina Rivera Garza, Robin Myers, John Mraz, Irmgard Emmelhainz, and series editor Ignacio Sánchez Prado discuss the series and its first three volumes:

        » Video: Critical Mexican Studies Book Series Virtual Launch




        Proposals may be submitted to Gianna Mosser at [email protected]. Please include:

        • A project abstract

        • Brief main description of the method, scope, and works analyzed

        • Anticipated word count, number of images, and timeline for full manuscript submission

        • Annotated table of contents

        • CV

        • A section on works in the field that the project complements and draws on


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        Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico

        Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico

        by Sarah Finley

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826506849

        Pub Date: July 2024

        "We, the Barbarians"

        "We, the Barbarians"

        by Mabel Moraña

        Translated by Stephanie Kirk

        Price: $39.95

        ISBN: 9780826506696

        Pub Date: April 2024

        Biocosmism

        Biocosmism

        by Jorge Quintana Navarrete

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826506511

        Pub Date: February 2024

        Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist

        Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist

        by Carlos Monsiváis

        Edited by Norma Klahn and Ilana Luna

        Translated by Norma Klahn and Ilana Luna

        Prologue by Marta Lamas

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826506337

        Pub Date: January 2024

        Subjunctive Aesthetics

        Subjunctive Aesthetics

        by Carolyn Fornoff

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826506177

        Pub Date: January 2024

        Sonic Strategies

        Sonic Strategies

        by Christina Baker

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826505989

        Pub Date: December 2023

        Serial Mexico

        Serial Mexico

        by Amy E. Wright

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826505613

        Pub Date: June 2023

        Mexico, Interrupted

        Mexico, Interrupted

        by Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826505538

        Pub Date: June 2023

        Serial Mexico

        Serial Mexico

        by Amy E. Wright

        Price: $19.99

        ISBN: 9780826505637

        Pub Date: June 2023

        Robo Sacer

        Robo Sacer

        by David S. Dalton

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826505378

        Pub Date: May 2023

        Monstrous Politics

        Monstrous Politics

        by Ben Gerlofs

        Price: $39.95

        ISBN: 9780826504777

        Pub Date: January 2023

        The Mexican Transpacific

        The Mexican Transpacific

        by Ignacio López-Calvo

        Foreword by Emma Nakatani

        Price: $39.95

        ISBN: 9780826504937

        Pub Date: December 2022

        Unlawful Violence

        Unlawful Violence

        by Rebecca Janzen

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826504449

        Pub Date: May 2022

        Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

        Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

        by Oswaldo Zavala

        Translated by William Savinar

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826504661

        Pub Date: May 2022

        Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures

        Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures

        by Irmgard Emmelhainz

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826502445

        Pub Date: January 2022

        History and Modern Media

        History and Modern Media

        by John Mraz

        Price: $34.95

        ISBN: 9780826501448

        Pub Date: April 2021

        The Restless Dead

        The Restless Dead

        by Cristina Rivera Garza

        Translated by Robin Myers

        Price: $27.95

        ISBN: 9780826501219

        Pub Date: October 2020

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