"The post-revolutionary Mexican literary canon was formed by cultural and political elites who sought to identify and reward those novels which would best represent the new nation. Reviewers found what they were looking for in Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes's El indio (1935) for example, but not in Consuelo Delgados's Yo tambien, Adelita (1936). This groundbreaking study provides a fresh perspective on canon formation by uncovering the circumstances and readings which produced a male-dominated Mexican literary canon."

Bowskill, Sarah E. L.

Introduction 1. Setting the Standard: El indio and the Premio Nacional de Literatura 2. Yo también, Adelita: An Unheard Call for Women's Suffrage 3. La región más transparente: Right Place, Right Time 4. La ciudad y el viento: A Gendered Alternative to Official Nationalism 5. The Exceptional Case of El desfile del amor 6. From Romance to Adultery: Reinterpreting Arráncame la vida 7. Conclusion: Towards a Twenty-First-Century Literary Canon