José Trigo o la configuración del México contemporáneo

Abstract

Jose Trigo or The configuration of contemporary Mexico is intended to show, through an interdisciplinary and critical research, the Mexican modernity from a general review of its cultural framework and its literary textuality, in particular in the novel Jose Trigo by Fernando del Paso. The text has been dealt from different theoretical notions as the Criticism as Sabotage by Manuel Asensi, as well as the so-called “Latin-American alternative systems” in particular the concepts of heterogeneity by Antonio Cornejo Polar, transculturality by Angel Rama and the proposal by Guilles Deleuze and Félix Gautarri about deterritorialization and reterritorialization. Jose Trigo will reveal alternative ways of modernity that question the idea of an unitary nation showing its fractures; contradicting post-revolution Mexican society as an utopically homogeneous one. The text by del Paso will come out of the literary canon and it will results problematic for being framing in totalizing categories since it articulates discourses that escape from the hegemonic imaginaries that will be relevant in terms of the proposal of a reevaluation of certain excluded discourses. The paper attempts to show the History of post-revolution Mexico (which belongs to the first half of the 20th century) from voices and discourses that have not been recognized by the hegemonic policies, these discourses show another version of the story from radical, marginalized, heterogeneous voices. This research also address the novel and its discursive dialogue with Nahuatl tradition and discovers how the prehispanics elements that show up in it are not just insolated events but the construction of projections, symbols and evocations which spin a mythological story converging in characters showing the relation between prehispanic Mexico and the modern one, where the idyllic official version of the prehispanic Mexico and the Revolution’s derived egalitarian Mexico will be call into question. This work includes the study of the mid-20th century railway working-class´ movement in Mexico; in it will be analyzed and fictionalized the lumpemproletariat class for the first time; their conflicts, their struggles, their role as subordinates (Spivak), and as displaced subjects. Additionally will be also analyzed the procedures of deterritorialization and reterritorialization that realize not only the relation between the subjects with the territory they live in, but shows the change as in the relationship of the human beings as in reference of their material, symbolic and imaginary assets. Jose Trigo reformulated and reassigned Nonoalco Tlatelolco’s territory as a space where a working-class’ struggle is coming into being and it belies the conception of a Mexico which has entered, in "appearance", to the modernity. Proof of it will be the reconstruction made by Fernando del Paso of the Cristero war, which is used as well to show how developing Mexico, the one inherited post-revolution Governments were so proud of, was not even close to a homogeneous one and that pre-modern, modern forms and different ideologies lived together in it. Jose Trigo presents a construction and configuration process of a contemporary Mexico by whose territory and History had been through different cultures and they have developed different processes as such as transculturation, hybridization and reteriritorializacion. Nonalco Tlatelolco’s district will bring a space in which a diversity of discourses have place in and the History of Mexico can be read from marginalized, radical, alternative voices joining with the expressions, world-views and the imaginary of a popular culture that has been built through the appropriation of heterogeneous discourses that shows the cultural asymmetries and the ones of power that deny the notion of homogeneous and modern society

Date of Award	14 Dec 2017
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	Beatriz Ferrus Anton (Tutor) & Mauricio Zabalgoitia Herrera (Director)