Maarten van Delden
· PhDUniversity of California, Los Angeles · Spanish and Portuguese
Active 1990–2025
About
Maarten van Delden is a professor specializing in Mexican Studies, 20th- and 21st-century Latin American Literature, and Literary and Cultural Relations between Mexico and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. with distinction in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, obtained in 1990, and has completed his M.A. at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands and his B.A. at Cambridge University in England. His research interests include Mexican literature, Latin American literary history, and transnational cultural exchanges. Van Delden has authored several books, including 'Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity' (1998), 'Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America' (2009), and 'Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual' (2021). His scholarly work encompasses a wide array of articles on prominent Latin American writers such as Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Guadalupe Nettel, and others, exploring themes of modernity, identity, and cultural relations. He has contributed to critical discussions on Mexican and Latin American literature, emphasizing the cultural and political contexts that shape literary production and intellectual debates in the region.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Humanities
- Art
- Law
- History
- Art history
- Philosophy
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Environmental ethics
- Ancient history
- Aesthetics
- Epistemology
- Media studies
- Library science
- Mathematics
- Literature
Selected publications
El Pez y la Flecha Revista de Investigaciones Literarias · 2025-01-09
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingEn este artículo, se revisa la labor de Octavio Paz como editor de la revista cultural mexicana Plural (1971-1976), basado principalmente en la consulta de la correspondencia de Paz y otros redactores de la revista que se encuentra en los archivos editoriales de Plural, en Princeton. Se verá que Paz fue un editor sumamente generoso; que participó de una forma excepcionalmente activa en la configuración de la revista; que realizaba frecuentes gestiones para apoyar las iniciativas de los colaboradores de la revista; y que se preocupaba por resolver o aminorar los conflictos que inevitablemente surgían dentro de la empresa colectiva que era Plural. Octavio Paz, Role Editor of Plural Abstract This article offers an overview of Octavio Paz’s work as the general editor of the Mexican cultural journal Plural (1971-1976), drawing principally on the study of the correspondence of Paz and other editors of the journal in the Plural editorial files housed in the Princeton University Library. We will see that Paz was an extremely generous journal editor: he participated actively in the magazine’s configuration, worked tirelessly to promote the initiatives of the journal’s collaborators, and made frequent efforts to resolve or lessen the conflicts between different literary, cultural and political viewpoints that emerged within the journal. Recibido: 19 de junio de 2024Dictaminado: 30 de octubre de 2024Aceptado: 19 de noviembre 2024
Guadalupe Nettel y Octavio Paz: diálogos en torno a la libertad
Presses universitaires de Liège eBooks · 2023-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingHacia el final de su novela autobiográfica El cuerpo en que nací (2011), Guadalupe Nettel evoca el momento en que descubre tanto su identidad mexicana como su vocación literaria. La narradora tiene unos quince años y vive en la ciudad de Aix-en-Provence en Francia con su hermano y su madre, quien estudia un doctorado en urbanismo y planeación regional. Nettel explica que “ese año, México fue el país invitado al Festival de Aix” (165) y agrega que entre los art
Bulletin of Latin American Research · 2023
1st authorCorresponding- Humanities
- Sociology
- Political Science
Evaluating the intrinsic interest of chapters in edited collections is more fruitful than querying selection made by editors -rarely is it difficult to question the choice of contributions or themes.This collection about the constant upheavals of the 'liberal' era demonstrates the almost impossible task of bringing together the 'varieties of capitalism' that shaped political and social life and integrating geographically and ethnically diverse non-national coalitions into a legitimate national framework.
Carlos Fuentes’s Narrative Universe
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2022
1st authorCorresponding- Humanities
- Political Science
- Literature
Abstract This chapter examines three aspects of Carlos Fuentes’s narrative oeuvre. First, it explores his approach to the relationship between the individual and the community. Fuentes inherited the modernist and existentialist preoccupation with the isolated individual; at the same time, his novels focus persistently on the relationship between self and other, and on our obligations to our fellow human beings. Second, the chapter explores the representation of geographic space in Fuentes’s novels, zeroing in on the depiction of Mexico City, various other Mexican cities and regions, and foreign countries including the United States, Spain, and France. Third, the chapter looks at two key literary influences on Fuentes: Octavio Paz and Pablo Neruda. From Paz, the Mexican novelist drew key ideas about Mexican history, culture, and identity. Neruda’s example led Fuentes to reflect on the relationship between the Latin American writer and the world to which he wished to give a voice.
Vanderbilt University Press eBooks · 2021-03-15 · 1 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingReality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 2021-03-15
book1st authorCorrespondingChapter Twenty-seven. Europe and Latin America in José Lezama Lima
Duke University Press eBooks · 2020
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Art
- History
Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana · 2017-12-20
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingA pesar de las críticas dirigidas en las últimas décadas a la tradición del ensayo de identidad nacional mexicano, se observa en años recientes un resurgimiento de libros sobre el tema del carácter mexicano. Este ensayo analiza textos de Jorge Castañeda y Heriberto Yépez que forman parte de esta nueva tendencia en la cultura mexicana. Sin embargo, estos autores no representan un simple retorno a la tradición del ensayo de interrogación nacional. Aunque Castañeda y Yépez rechazan la idea según la cual la identidad nacional mexicana es una mera invención, argumentando que esta identidad tiene una existencia real, también afirman que el carácter mexicano constituye un obstáculo para el progreso del país, por lo cual debe ser superado, en vez de alabado. De este modo, sus libros combinan perspectivas nacionales y posnacionales.
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos · 2017-01-10
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingRevista De Estudios Hispanicos · 2016-01-01
article1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 6 shared
Kristine Vanden Berghe
Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos
- 2 shared
Yvon Grenier
St. Francis Xavier University
- 2 shared
Carlos J. Alonso
Exploratorium
- 1 shared
Raymond Williams
- 1 shared
Carlos Fuentes
- 1 shared
Elżbieta Skłodowska
- 1 shared
Maria DiBattista
Princeton University
- 1 shared
Mireya Pérez
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