The national past (re) interpreted in two Mexican novels: Texas by Carmen Boullosa and Un sueño de Bernardo Reyes by Ignacio Solares.

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Current Mexican Literature, Fragmentary Historical Novel, Neocolonialism., Memory and creative writing

Abstract

This article focus on two mexican novels: Texas by Carmen Boullosa and Un sueño de Bernardo Reyes by Ignacio Solares. Both writers, Boullosa and Solares, talk about the national past to discuss contemporary social and political issues. We suggest that this mexican novels remark ethical and moral values related to the construction of main characters to underline unexistent heroicism and certain values in present. Also, both novels, Texas and Un sueño… combine orality, popular culture and fantasy with official history to underline the problematic border between individual and collective memory. Our conceptual framework is supported by poetic and cultural studies (Germany). This theoretical perspective remarks literature as a medium of cultural memory because literature (re)write, (re)interpret and can reinvent our current collective imaginary. Also, literature deals with the manners that society understand and represent present, past and future.

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References

Boullosa, C. (2013). Texas. La Gran Ladronería en el Lejano Norte. México: Alfaguara.

Erll, A. (2012). Memoria colectiva y culturas del recuerdo. Estudio introductorio. Johanna Córdoba, Tatjana Louis (tradd.) Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Uniandes.

González, D. (2015). Emancipación, plenitud y memoria: modos de percepción y acción a través del arte. Madrid: Iberoamericana; Vervuert.

Solares, I. (2013). Un sueño de Bernardo Reyes. México: Alfaguara.

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Published

2018-12-19

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Sánchez Hernández, D. S. (2018). The national past (re) interpreted in two Mexican novels: Texas by Carmen Boullosa and Un sueño de Bernardo Reyes by Ignacio Solares. Sincronía, 23(75), 260–280. Retrieved from https://revistasincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/sincronia/article/view/575

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 75 (2019): January-June

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LETRAS

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