By Stagecoach, Mule and Rail in Mexican land: travelogues of Manuel Payno and Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera in the Context of the Mexican Press

Abstract

This paper explores the relation between some literary texts and the print media where they were published. The analysis focuses on travel stories written by two Mexican authors, Manuel Payno and Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, who published at different times and different media, such as cultural magazines and political journals, a kind of text which defined its discursive conventions to establish itself as a literary genre, towards the second half of the xixth century.En el artículo se explora la relación entre algunos textos literarios y los medios impresos donde fueron divulgados. Enfoco específicamente relatos de viaje de dos escritores mexicanos: Manuel Payno y Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, quienes publicaron en distinto momento, en medios diferentes revista cultural y diarios políticos , un tipo de texto que fue configurando sus marcos discursivos para consolidarse como género literario hacia la segunda mitad del siglo XIX.