Na década de 1950, vieram à público duas pequenas obras de um autor até então desconhecido. Em 1953, publicava-se o livro de contos Llano en llamas e, dois anos depois, o romance Pedro Páramo. Bastaria essa diminuta produção literária para consagrar aquele que viria a ser tomado como referência para toda uma geração de escritores latino-americanos. Juan Rulfo seria considerado na cena literária do continente da década seguinte, ainda que com ressalvas, como o grande precursor da geração do chamado boom. Questionando essa suposta paternidade e partindo da análise dessas obras literárias ficcionais, cotejadas com outros clássicos da literatura mexicana que trataram da Revolução Mexicana, pretendeu-se articular a relação entre história e ficção. A abordagem conferida por Rulfo às especificidades de sua historicidade desvelam, ao leitor atento, a história, não aludida diretamente, mas entrevista tanto na estética escolhida pelo autor, como pelos conteúdos narrativos de suas narrações. / In the 1950\'s, two little works by an unknown author till then came to light. In 1953, was published the short story book Llano en llamas and, two years later, the novel Pedro Páramo. It would be enough this small literary production to acclaim that writer, which would become a reference for an entire generation of Latin-American writers. Juan Rulfo was going to be considered in the coming decade literary scene, even though with some reservations, as the great predecessor of the so-called boom generation. Raising questions about this alleged fatherhood and relying on the analysis of these fictional literary works, compared to other Mexican literary classics concerning Mexican Revolution, one intended to articulate the relation between History and fiction. The approach conferred by Rulfo to the specificities belonging to his historicity unveils, to the sharp reader, History itself, not directly alluded, but foreseen as much as by the aesthetic chosen by the author as by the narrative contents of his narrations.

This thesis investigates the affects of the French Revolution of 1789 and the Mexican Revolution of 1910 on gender roles in their respective societies. Women that contributed to political discourse challenged separations of public and private spheres, which dictated order in the late and postrevolutionary periods of France and Mexico. Given the deliberate acts by both postrevolutionary governments to send women to the periphery of their respective societies, it is vital to revisit the examples of female influence that shaped the early French and Mexican Revolutions. The understanding that comes from a detailed analysis of the parameters of gendered spaces before, during, and after revolution sheds light on the relationships between order and gender that determined the future of women in their respective postrevolutionary worlds.

In my dissertation I show how the hegemonic power of the post-revolutionary state in Mexico utilized the figure of legendary Pancho Villa in literature and cinematography to create a national myth that represents a consensus in a mestizo patriarchal Christian society. I examine how the use and abuse of the image of Villa in post-revolutionary literary works and films caused this figure to acquire mythical characteristics and dimensions, and to become a key element in the construction of national identity and masculinity in Mexico. I argue that the figure of Villa is a confirmation of a traditional rather than a revolutionary proposal in gender terms. Equally important, I demonstrate how the literature and film of the Mexican revolution constitute instrumental devices for the formation of masculinity and the strengthening of a homo-social culture in the Mexico’s post-revolutionary stage, a process that would later determine the structure of the Mexican state. I also contend that in the construction of the mythical figure of Pancho Villa at least two sources of representation are participating: the Mexican state machinery on the one hand, and the American media on the other. By the same token, I show how the figure of Villa nurtures a national project and constitutes one of the most diffused perceptions of Mexican identity in the United States. / text

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper proposes an analysis on the novel Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, in which elements such as the conception of future and past defended by Modernity, the allegorical construction and the work of mourning arise as central axis. Throughout four chapters we sought to answer the following question: How, in Pedro Páramo, the Mexican revolutionary process and future prospects arising from Modernity are expressed? In the first, based on authors like Carlos Fuentes, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Alberto Vital and Ruffinelli, we linked the author, the work and the context of production in an attempt to apprehend the formation of the Mexican historical-social-economic reality. Also at this stage, we make some considerations about the processes of cultural encounters experienced by Mexico (since the arrival of the Spanish to the mexican revolution) in order to relate issues of modernity and the constitutive process of the novel studied. In the second chapter, we detailed the process of the narrative construction, associating the external to the internal elements in a process of entry and exit of the novel, adding the literary text to the Mexican political-historical-social context. Also, we used the concept of literary transculturation proposed by the Uruguayan critic Ángel Rama, who helped us understand the narrative structure of Rulfo s novel, especially in relation to the historical moment in which it was produced. In the third chapter, we approached the cultural elaboration of death in Mexico, in its condition as national totem. Furthermore, based on the studies developed by Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Octavio Paz and Darcy Ribeiro, we related, to the narrative analyzed, Benjamin s concept of allegory and the temporal conception adopted in Modernity. In the fourth and final chapter, the writings of Theodor Adorno and Idelber Avelar helped us with concepts such as mourning, loss, defeat, tension - associated to negative dialectics - taking Pedro Páramo as an open system in which the tension leads to a conception of future that subverts the conception presented by Modernity: a future in ruins. The projection of a future in ruins turns active the past, the present and the future. In this light, the different narrative voices in Pedro Páramo are taken as different possibilities, singular and incomplete, which propose the revision of the constitution of the Great National Report of Mexico related to the Revolution, starting from the recognition of the past as heterogeneous and fragmented, breaking with the homogenizing and totalizing visions of history and taking diversity and opposition as positive aspects. / Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de análise do romance Pedro Páramo, de Juan Rulfo, na qual a concepção de futuro e de passado defendida pela Modernidade, a construção alegórica e o trabalho de luto erigem-se como eixos centrais. Ao longo de quatro capítulos, buscamos responder a seguinte pergunta: Como, em Pedro Páramo, o processo revolucionário mexicano e a perspectiva de futuro decorrente da Modernidade estão expressos? No primeiro, os escritos de Carlos Fuentes, Alejo Carpentier, Alberto Vital e Jorge Ruffinelli nos ajudaram a relacionar o autor, a obra e o contexto de produção, na tentativa de apreender a formação da realidade histórico-social-econômica mexicana. Ainda nesta etapa, tecemos algumas considerações sobre os processos de encontros culturais vivenciados pelo México (desde a chegada dos espanhóis até a revolução mexicana) com o intuito de abarcarmos questões relativas à Modernidade e à constituição do romance estudado. No segundo capítulo, analisamos a construção da narrativa, associando os elementos externos aos internos em um processo de entrada e saída do romance, somando o texto literário ao contexto político-histórico-social mexicano. Também, empregamos o conceito de transculturação literária proposto pelo crítico uruguaio Ángel Rama, o qual nos ajudou a compreender a estrutura narrativa de Pedro Páramo, principalmente, face ao momento histórico em que foi produzida. No terceiro capítulo, a partir de autores como Claudio Lomnitz, Carlos Monsiváis e Octavio Paz, abordamos a elaboração cultural da morte no México, em sua condição de totem nacional. E, partindo dos estudos desenvolvidos por Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Octavio Paz e Darcy Ribeiro, relacionamos ao romance analisado o conceito benjaminiano de alegoria e a concepção temporal moderna. No quarto e último capítulo, os escritos de Theodor Adorno e de Idelber Avelar auxiliaram-nos com conceitos como luto, perda, derrota, tensão - associados à dialética negativa , a partir dos quais tomamos Pedro Páramo como um sistema aberto no qual a tensão conduz para uma concepção de futuro que subverte a apresentada pela Modernidade: um futuro em ruínas. A projeção de um futuro de ruínas torna atuante tanto o passado quanto o presente e o futuro. Sob esse prisma, as distintas vozes narrativas de Pedro Páramo são possibilidades diversas, singulares e incompletas que propõem a revisão da constituição do grande relato nacional mexicano relacionado à revolução, partindo do reconhecimento do passado como heterogêneo e fragmentado, rompendo com as visões homogeneizantes e totalizantes da história e tomando a diversidade e a oposição como aspectos positivos.

This thesis argues that the curricula distributed among the newly founded, rural socialist schools in Mexico after the Revolution of 1910 created a new narrative about one of the most explosive moments in Latin American history. It describes the ways that women's work was increased by charging mothers with additional burdens of raising revolutionary citizens and developing the ideals of the revolution at home. The thesis gives a close read of one major children's novel of the time as well as articles from a teachers' magazine to discuss the ways that the post-revolutionary state government promoted indigenous ethnocide in the wake of the 1910 revolution and consolidated political power to the hands of the official state party which has dominated Mexican politics ever since.

Estudo da evolução estética e política na obra de John Silas Reed (1897-1920) a partir de, fundamentalmente, duas de suas obras: seu primeiro livro, Insurgent Mexico (México Insurgente 1914) e seu último livro publicado em vida, Ten Days that Shook the World (Dez dias que abalaram o mundo 1919). A partir da crítica materialista-dialética a dissertação aborda o percurso de John Reed e procura demonstrar, numa leitura comparada entre as duas obras, como a transformação da visão política de seu autor se expressa na transformação estética de suas obras. Também se procura fazer uma leitura crítica da recepção de John Reed e a interpretação de sua obra nas décadas posteriores à sua morte / A study regarding the aesthetical and political development within the work of John Silar Reed (1897-1920) based upon, fundamentally, two of his books: his first one, Insurgent Mexico (1914), and the last one published in his lifetime, Ten Days that Shook the World (1919). From the dialetical-materialistic standpoint, the study approaches John Reeds life and tries to demonstrate, through a compared Reading between these two books, how the transformation in the authors political view is related to the aesthetical transformation in his writing and literary composition. John Reed works reception and criticism is also critically regarded

Although secularization has early antecedents in Mexico's history, the generation who embodied the Constitutionalist faction of the 1910 Revolution undertook an unprecedented campaign to achieve it. Strong anticlerical provisions proclaimed in the 1917 Constitution were implemented and gradually escalated in intensity by the administrations of Presidents Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elias Calles. This ignited an armed uprising known as the Cristero Rebellion that arose in rural Mexico in 1926. Beyond the armed conflict, this dissertation analyzes the cultural effects caused by the implementation of such a legal and institutional agenda that reveal a substantial confrontation in the public sphere between two opposed concepts of society-religious and non-religious. As a result, society became highly polarized while the government pushed its secularization aims to the extreme as never before. New laws intervened more intensely on private rights, transforming people's everyday ideas about religion, nation, law, justice and citizenship. By looking at citizens' experiences with such law enforcement, this work elucidates how the state finally neutralized radical Catholicism by stigmatizing it as non-patriotic in the public sphere. This phenomenon that happened between 1917 and 1929 can be conceptualized as the secularization of patriotism and the transformation of people's notions of the legal system- defined as the legal popular culture- that was central to Mexico's social and cultural Revolution.

Diploma thesis Motifs of pre-Columbian America in modern Mexican art deals with the pre- Columbian motifs in the work of three leading representatives of the Mexican muralism - Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Muralism, monumental painting with a clearly defined socio-educational function, started to develop on the initiative of the post- revolutionary Mexican government, since the 1920s of the 20th century. During its development, it gained international fame and today it is widely regarded as a uniquely Mexican style of art. An integral part of muralism form scenes from the life of pre-Columbian cultures. The main objective of this work is to analyse these scenes, the origin of particular motifs, their original meanings and meanings, which they assumed in the context of the murals. The work also reflects where muralists acquired knowledge about the Indian civilizations and what image of pre-Columbian past they created. The work also seeks to clarify the question in what specifically was the muralist access to pre-Columbian cultures innovative. The paper uses qualitative methods of analysis of the available written sources and analysis of visual materials.

Em 5 de fevereiro de 2017 a Constituição Política dos Estados Unidos Mexicanos completa cem anos. Corolário da Revolução Mexicana que a antecedeu, a Constituição Mexicana de 1917 é a primeira no mundo a assegurar direitos sociais regulação da propriedade e reforma agrária, direitos dos trabalhadores, direito à educação laica em seu texto. A criação de um constitucionalismo social transformou o próprio conceito de Estado, ampliando consideravelmente tanto sua capacidade de intervenção na realidade como as expectativas e demandas sociais de ação estatal. O objetivo desta tese foi descrever e analisar o desenrolar revolucionário mexicano entre 1910 e 1917, principalmente a partir dos planos e documentos jurídicos produzidos pelos diferentes grupos que dele participaram, para compreender o contexto histórico que possibilitou as formulações originais e a inclusão de direitos sociais na Constituição de 1917. A análise dessa porção da história do direito mexicano mostra que, ao adotarem a forma jurídica para escrever seus anseios de transformação social, as diferentes correntes revolucionárias mexicanas decidiram deliberadamente disputar a forma-direito que seria responsável por ordenar a sociedade. Assumiram que o conteúdo das normas jurídicas futuras estava também sujeito ao resultado da luta social que eles vinham travando. E que não se tratava de uma batalha perdida contra uma forma que lhes era necessariamente desfavorável, mas sim de uma disputa que poderia ser vencida. Além disso, a análise dos textos de planos, decretos e outros documentos revolucionários fontes primárias escritas em linguagem jurídica trouxe importantes elementos para a compreensão e interpretação da própria Revolução Mexicana. A história do direito que aqui se reconstrói contribuiu para novos olhares sobre aquele momento histórico, levando a divergências consideráveis frente à historiografia consagrada, em especial no que diz respeito à avaliação política do processo revolucionário. Permitiu também conclusões importantes acerca do papel do direito na história, particularmente na história das revoluções. / On the fifth of January, 2017, the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States celebrates a hundred years of existence. Corollary to the Mexican Revolution which preceded it, the Mexican Constitution of 1917 is the first in the world to secure social rights property limitations and agrarian reform, labor rights, right to a secular education in its text. The creation of a social constitutionalism transformed the very concept of State, considerably enlarging its capacity to intervene upon reality and, at the same time, augmenting social demands and expectancies for state action. The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to describe and analyze the development of Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1917, with particular emphasis upon juridical plans and documents ensued by the different groups that took part in it, in order to better understand the historical context that made possible the original ideas incorporated in the 1917 Constitution, especially the inclusion of social rights. Analysis of this portion of Mexican Law History shows that, by adopting the juridical form to inscribe their demands for social transformation, the distinct revolutionary parties deliberately opted for disputing the Law-form, as responsible for shaping society. They assumed that the content of future juridical rules was subject also to the result of the social struggles they had been engaged in; that this was not a battle doomed to be lost against a form necessarily contrary to their interests, but a dispute that could turn out in their favor. Moreover, analysis of the text of different plans, decrees and other revolutionary documents primary sources written in juridical language brought important elements for the understanding and interpreting of Mexican Revolution itself. The legal history which was here reconstructed contributed to shape a new way of looking to that historical period, with considerable disagreement with established historiography, particularly as regards the political evaluation of the revolutionary process. It also allowed important conclusions as to the role played by law in History, particularly in the history of revolutions.

Em 5 de fevereiro de 2017 a Constituição Política dos Estados Unidos Mexicanos completa cem anos. Corolário da Revolução Mexicana que a antecedeu, a Constituição Mexicana de 1917 é a primeira no mundo a assegurar direitos sociais regulação da propriedade e reforma agrária, direitos dos trabalhadores, direito à educação laica em seu texto. A criação de um constitucionalismo social transformou o próprio conceito de Estado, ampliando consideravelmente tanto sua capacidade de intervenção na realidade como as expectativas e demandas sociais de ação estatal. O objetivo desta tese foi descrever e analisar o desenrolar revolucionário mexicano entre 1910 e 1917, principalmente a partir dos planos e documentos jurídicos produzidos pelos diferentes grupos que dele participaram, para compreender o contexto histórico que possibilitou as formulações originais e a inclusão de direitos sociais na Constituição de 1917. A análise dessa porção da história do direito mexicano mostra que, ao adotarem a forma jurídica para escrever seus anseios de transformação social, as diferentes correntes revolucionárias mexicanas decidiram deliberadamente disputar a forma-direito que seria responsável por ordenar a sociedade. Assumiram que o conteúdo das normas jurídicas futuras estava também sujeito ao resultado da luta social que eles vinham travando. E que não se tratava de uma batalha perdida contra uma forma que lhes era necessariamente desfavorável, mas sim de uma disputa que poderia ser vencida. Além disso, a análise dos textos de planos, decretos e outros documentos revolucionários fontes primárias escritas em linguagem jurídica trouxe importantes elementos para a compreensão e interpretação da própria Revolução Mexicana. A história do direito que aqui se reconstrói contribuiu para novos olhares sobre aquele momento histórico, levando a divergências consideráveis frente à historiografia consagrada, em especial no que diz respeito à avaliação política do processo revolucionário. Permitiu também conclusões importantes acerca do papel do direito na história, particularmente na história das revoluções. / On the fifth of January, 2017, the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States celebrates a hundred years of existence. Corollary to the Mexican Revolution which preceded it, the Mexican Constitution of 1917 is the first in the world to secure social rights property limitations and agrarian reform, labor rights, right to a secular education in its text. The creation of a social constitutionalism transformed the very concept of State, considerably enlarging its capacity to intervene upon reality and, at the same time, augmenting social demands and expectancies for state action. The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to describe and analyze the development of Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1917, with particular emphasis upon juridical plans and documents ensued by the different groups that took part in it, in order to better understand the historical context that made possible the original ideas incorporated in the 1917 Constitution, especially the inclusion of social rights. Analysis of this portion of Mexican Law History shows that, by adopting the juridical form to inscribe their demands for social transformation, the distinct revolutionary parties deliberately opted for disputing the Law-form, as responsible for shaping society. They assumed that the content of future juridical rules was subject also to the result of the social struggles they had been engaged in; that this was not a battle doomed to be lost against a form necessarily contrary to their interests, but a dispute that could turn out in their favor. Moreover, analysis of the text of different plans, decrees and other revolutionary documents primary sources written in juridical language brought important elements for the understanding and interpreting of Mexican Revolution itself. The legal history which was here reconstructed contributed to shape a new way of looking to that historical period, with considerable disagreement with established historiography, particularly as regards the political evaluation of the revolutionary process. It also allowed important conclusions as to the role played by law in History, particularly in the history of revolutions.