This course engages the problem of its own point of departure: when and where do we locate a Mexican (post)revolution, and with what parameters may we begin to frame it? The question is more than a strictly formal one, because of the many Mexican intellectuals whose work has merged ideological or aesthetic orientations with programmatic reflections on the nature of nationally specific historical time. Through analysis of works by writers and intellectuals of the early to mid-twentieth century, such as Alfonso Reyes, José Vasconcelos, Juan Rulfo, and Agustín Yáñez, as well as later figures including Roger Bartra, Carlos Monsiváis, Claudio Lomnitz, and Sara Sefchovich, we will consider what is at stake politically, philosophically, and ethically in these textual negotiations of Mexican time and history.