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date: 27 April 2025

Mexican Women Writers, 1960 to the Presentlocked

Mexican Women Writers, 1960 to the Presentlocked

  • Sarah AndersonSarah AndersonDepartment of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, California State University, Chico

Summary

Since the early 1960s, Mexican women writers have relentlessly fought to become recognized within a traditionally male-dominated literary canon.

In the 20th century, women’s writing began to flourish, in many cases emerging as a counternarrative to the patriarchal discourse that had dominated the literary scene for decades after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). The work of women writers can be examined according to three different phases: from 1960 to the 1970s, 1980 to the 1990s, and 2000 to the present, and by highlighting in particular a group of women writers from the northern border region, who have faced additional obstacles in their path to becoming published writers. All in all, each of the writers discussed here contributes to a snapshot of the literature written by women from the 1960s to today. The chronological trajectory of their literary voices underscores Mexico’s rich cultural and historical past through the eyes and voices of those traditionally silenced and marginalized in the patriarchal and hierarchical spaces of power.

Subjects

  • History of Mexico
  • 1945–1991
  • 1991 and After
  • Cultural History

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