Journal's History

Amoxcalli, Revista de teoría y crítica de la literatura hispanoamericana emerged in 2008 at the request of Dr. Renato Prada Oropeza, who considered it appropriate that the Master's Program in Mexican Literature at BUAP should have a periodical publication where various theoretical and critical proposals concerning Hispanic American literature could be disseminated and discussed. It was Dr. Mario Calderón who proposed the name of the journal from the Nahuatl voice amoxcalli ('amoxtli': book; 'calli': house), which referred to the place where the pictorial documents or codices were kept, in which various Mesoamerican cultures preserved the memory of their traditions before the arrival of the Spaniards. The design and the grid was a proposal by designer Donovan Bravo Fonseca, created exclusively for this publication.

      The first issue of the magazine hosted a selection of the best articles presented at the VI International Colloquium of Fantastic Literature held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2007. Although the journal was planned as an annual publication, various administrative and economic factors prevented the immediate publication of the second issue. It was not until 2011 when the journal was finally published with 21 miscellaneous articles among which were highlighted several works of the then students or thesis students of the Master's Degree in Mexican Literature at BUAP.

        The heartfelt death of Dr. Prada in 2011 indefinitely interrupted the work of the journal until in 2015 Dr. Alejandro Ramírez Lámbarry took up the project again with the aim of opening a new era of the journal where, in the first instance, its founder was evoked as well as another professor and colleague, Mtro. Salvador Cruz, who also left us without his pleasant presence in 2012. Since then, the journal continues periodically every six months, trying to open a space for the dissemination of research results of our students and faculty of the Graduate Program in Hispanic American Literature as well as the academic community in general.