The dissertation explores the trope of bodily abjection in Mexican literature and film that spans from the 1910s to the 1970s as a device for unveiling predominant discourses regarding the foundational myth of the Mexican Revolution. Sickly, mutilated, marginal, or even spectral bodies that appear throughout the cultural production of Mexico’s revolutionary century are closely linked with the literary and filmic representation of the insurgent experience. These bodies are studied as harbingers of the contentious relationship between revolutionary subjects and institutions that claimed to be the legitimate representatives and custodians of revolutionary culture. The dissertation seeks to demonstrate how abject representations of bodies reappear in Mexican literature and film when the possibility of armed insurgency emerges as an alternative to state-centered revolutionary discourse. While my research examines an eclectic corpus of works, crafted by authors and filmmakers belonging to different moments of the 20th century, all showing varied ideological affiliations, I argue that corporeal abjection consistently puts on display how insurgency cannot be incorporated into the imaginary of State power. The literary production of the Ateneo de México, Rafael Muñoz, José Revueltas, and the films of independent directors such as Paul Leduc and Alfredo Joskowicz are among the works this dissertation analyzes. In these heterogeneous texts, the abject bodies of insurgents constitute a valuable interpretive resource that remains largely unexplored in the study of contemporary Mexican cultural production.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/44830 |
| Date | 04 July 2022 |
| Creators | Tormos Bigles, Edgardo F. |
| Contributors | Pineda, Adela |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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