The Indigenous Supernatural in Contemporary Mexican Fiction

Abstract

In this paper, I aim to investigate to what extent and in what ways the literary institution has incorporated or excluded supernatural motifs related to indigenous beliefs and ways of thinking in 20th-century Mexico. I will examine three main literary movements: the fantasy genre, magical realism, and indigenist literature. These forms of representation, as is well known, extend beyond the Mexican context and inevitably point to the development of Latin American literature; therefore, the latter will be constantly involved not only as a context but also, in part, as a subject of study.