Language Politics of the Mexican State regarding native languages and the funding of literary production

Abstract: This thesis strives to understand the underlying narrative behind the current distribution of the public funding between the writers of the Spanish language and writers of native languages in Mexico, as well as contextualise the policies of the Mexican State that often materialise colonial dynamics. The situation of native women writers is emphasised as they are forced to tackle multiple disadvantages based on unjust social structures. At the same time, the concept of national and world literary canon plays an exclusionary role when it comes to inclusion of diverse literary oeuvres that represent different versions of the world as the one traditionally carried by European languages and their literary works.