Abstract

BUSTAMANTE BERMUDEZ, Gerardo. Benito Fernández by Elena Garro: a critical look about the Mexican history. Valenciana [online]. 2017, vol.10, n.20, pp.193-214. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i20.305.

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.

Keywords : History; Power; Parody; Ideology; Class.

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