A Mexican Renascence

Abstract

Abstract This article explores the periodical contributions of the Mexican-Jewish writer and editor Anita Brenner (1905–1974). It argues that Brenner’s periodical contributions—primarily relating to art criticism and published in diverse outlets such as The Nation, Mexican Folkways, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and Mademoiselle—decenter ideas of Mexico as a site of peripheral avant-gardism and reveal how Brenner was a pioneer of a transnational and, in some ways, distinctly female avant-garde network.