Benito Fernández by Elena Garro: a critical look about the Mexican history

Authors

  • Gerardo Bustamante Bermúdez Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i20.305

Abstract

In 1957, Elena Garro wrote the play Benito Fernández, a text in which she critically reviews Mexico’s national history, issues of power, simulation and the quest for personal identity in the midst of a society emerged in the after effects of the Mexican Revolution. This work is a counter-discourse to Mexico’s official narrative and the idealization of facts and national heroes. She is interested in the racist and classist aspects of the new dominating society, which is interested in their own personal welfare over those of the collective. To do so, she makes her characters concerned about buying a head, that is, an ideology to fundament their own existence.

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2017-07-03

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Bustamante Bermúdez, G. (2017). Benito Fernández by Elena Garro: a critical look about the Mexican history. Valenciana, (20), 193–214. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i20.305

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No. 20 (2017): Núm. 20 julio-diciembre 2017

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