Abstract
This chapter explores Mexican/American print cultures in the period between 1860 and 1920. Focusing on ‘the hundreds of forgotten newspapers from the Spanish-speaking borderlands’, it looks at the power of print in mediating complex histories of struggle and alliance in transnational, translocal, and multilingual forms. The chapter first provides a chronological and regional overview of Spanish-language print culture before discussing the ways in which the popular print culture of Mexican/America both resembles and differs from that of the United States. It also examines the work of Spanish-language writers such as María Amparo Ruíz de Burton and María Cristina Mena to demonstrate how authorship produces an impoverished view of the literary field of Mexican/America. Finally, it considers the power of authorship to describe and call into being complex social networks and outlines directions for further research.
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