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Since people are super worried about whether white Americans are even allowed to write about Mexico, here is a thread about white Americans and Brits who wrote amazing books about Mexico admired by Mexicans. So if you want to begin with white writers to learn about Mexico, read:
John Kenneth Turner wrote Barbarous Mexico, a very brave an important exposé of the Porfirio Díaz regime, which the American Press hailed at the time: utpress.utexas.edu/books/turbar
John Reed’s Insurgent Mexico was a great report on the Mexican Revolution amazon.com/Insurgent-Mexi…
Katherine Anne Porter wrote many wonderful texts on Mexico, both fictional and non-fictional loa.org/books/290-coll…
Anita Brenner was essential in the development of Mexico’s Art history store.doverpublications.com/0486423034.html
Alma Reed wrote this spectacular memoir of her time in Mexico utpress.utexas.edu/books/reeper
Graham Greene wrote one of the best novels of the 20th century on Mexico’s Cristero War: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/321542/t…
Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy is just spectacular panmacmillan.com/authors/cormac…
The person who know the most about Mexican food is Diana Kennedy, and she is revered by Mexicans for it latimes.com/food/dailydish…
Lucia Berlin is one of the greatest short story writers in the English language and many of her work are based in Mexico panmacmillan.com/authors/lucia-…
David Lida is a New Yorker who wrote one of the best books out there on Mexico City davidlida.com
And the Paul Theroux book I am happy to recommend left and right hmhbooks.com/shop/books/On-…
There are more, and I am not counting either scholars or the many other foreigners with exceptional books on Mexico in any genre
In fact you should know that readers in Mexico feel proud when a smart foreigner writes intelligent books about our country, just like we hate when they write stupid books too.
And I know that in the racial climate of the US this argument is too nuanced and some people will continue to misrepresent and misinterpret our views on American Dirt
But if you are reading this controversy in good faith, the books above may be a bridge so hopefully after you also give a chance to Latinx and Latin American books.
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A topic in the American Dirt controversy was the ways in which Mexican, Mexican American and Chicanx literatures are marginalized from publishing. But as a scholar of Mexican literature written in Mexico in Spanish, there are complexities here (thread with book recommendations)
As a I mentioned elsewhere, the Mexican and the Mexican American literary fields are distinct and often even unfamiliar with each other. And the colleagues of #DignidadLiteraria are doing an admirable work in addressing the marginalization of Mexican American lit.
But the fact is that Mexican literature written in Spanish, most of it from Mexico (the literature in indigenous languages is a very complex theme that would require a thread by am expert) is by and large unknown in the US, and was unavailable until very recently.
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It is quite unfortunate that part of the American Dirt controversy has derived into the "only Mexicans can write about Mexico" vs. "non-MExicans have freedom of speech and we reject cancel culture" faux debate. (1/2)
This pushes to the side the real points: 1. Anyone can write about Mexico as long as they actually know about it. 2. Giving 1 million dollars and the Oprah imprimatur to someone who is far from that standard is an insult to those who actually know. (2/3)
3. That this happened is the result that the same publishers who give a million dollars to books like this do not even bother to look at the work of Mexicans. 4. The Publishing industry manufacture faux best-sellers capitalizing on real issues and are therefore corrupt.
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My final thread on this, since, believe it or not, I do have to go back to my day job as an academic. One thing that has come out of the American Dirt controversy is various list of books by Latinx authors, which is great,
But even these list miss great books by academics and journalists, some Latinx, some not, who have spent years and a great deal of work documenting questions of immigration, the border and Mexico, so here is a short, improvised and non-exhaustive list of great, readable books:
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