Abstract:

Mexican Canadian writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia's meteoric rise after the publication of Mexican Gothic (2020) has placed her at the center of contemporary genre fiction. This essay discusses the ways in which her approach to genre, and particularly to the Gothic, is informed by a citational dynamic in relation to what the article calls her "Mexican Archive"—that is, the rich network of references to the history and symbolic production of Mexico. The essay contends that this archive sets Moreno-Garcia apart from other Latinx fiction writers in her disengagement from US-centered ideas of race and Mexicanness. The article discusses in the first part the ways in which we could think about the role of Mexico and Mexican culture in Moreno-Garcia's work. In the second part, a reading of Mexican Gothic unfolds the ways in which this archive intersects with the citational practices and symbolic conventions of genre fiction.

摘要：

墨西哥裔加拿大作家西尔维娅·莫雷诺-加西亚在《墨西哥哥特式》 （2020 年）出版后迅速崛起，使她成为当代类型小说的中心。本文讨论了她对流派（尤其是哥特式）的研究方法是如何通过与本文所称的“墨西哥档案”（即对历史和象征的丰富引用网络）相关的引用动态来了解的。墨西哥生产。这篇文章认为，这份档案使莫雷诺-加西亚与其他拉丁小说作家区分开来，因为她脱离了以美国为中心的种族和墨西哥人观念。本文第一部分讨论了我们如何思考墨西哥和墨西哥文化在莫雷诺-加西亚作品中的作用。在第二部分中，揭示了该档案与流派小说的引用实践和象征惯例的交叉方式。