Narrator, essayist and poet. He studied Literature at the FFyL of the UNAM. He has a Master's degree in Mexican Literature from the same faculty. He holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Hamburg, Federal Germany. He has taught at UNAM, UPN and Colegio Alemán. He also served as Coordinator of Humanities from 2015 to 2019. He is a full time researcher at the IIFL of UNAM. Member of the National System of Researchers, level II. Director of the Teaching Center for Foreigners (CEPE), UNAM. Winner of the 2001 Juan García Ponce Short Novel Award, from the Instituto Cultural de Yucatán, for Head-hunters. His research interests include: the lyric poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, hermeneutic reading, the rescue of Mexican literary texts, the Theory of Literature, the Aesthetics of Reception and Hispanic American Literature, especially Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. He has published 16 single-authored books on academic issues of pure research in literary studies and applied research in didactics of literature and language teaching.
Relations between Mexico and Japan have taken a vertiginous course in recent decades, which propose the need to understand the nation of the Rising Sun not only from a commercial point of view but also from a political, religious, aesthetic and fine arts point of view. In this sense, Yukio Mishima stands as a spokesperson par excellence that, through literature, theatre, film and even modelling, is a parameter in Mexico to understand our partner on the other side of the Pacific.
In this work, he offers different perspectives from Mexican and Japanese experts who, summoned by the University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa (PUEAA-UNAM), from literature, diplomacy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, translation, peace studies and politics offer interpretations of Mishima's legacy while allowing us to know and understand Japan from the second half of the 20th century.
In the framework of the 400 years since Hasekura arrived in Mexico, the University Seminary of Asian Studies (SUEA), the Institute of Philological Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences through their Center for International Relations, entities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), undertook the labour of organizing the Japanese Culture Day to commemorate the anniversary of what has traditionally been considered the first Japanese embassy in Mexico: the Hasekura Mission.
This publication is the result of that academic day, this also has the purpose of recovering the memory of the cultural relations between Mexico and Japan. In this way, gives the reader the possibility to get close to know various aspects of Japanese culture in their own field and in their relationship with Mexico. The studies included have a variety of topics that are organized in four sections: 1. Japan as an object of study; 2. The Hasekura Mission: a historical reassessment; 3. The regional economic system and 4. Language and Literature.