La Referencia: los padres y madres de la Patria. Metáforas familiarizantes en Fernández de Lizardi

From 1821 to 1827, Fernández de Lizardi assumed, consciously or unconsciously, that the Mexican United States needed to have a “Reference” or ascendants which would be different than Spain, and which would serve them as collective orderers oriented toward defending the persistence of the nation-stat...

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Main Author: María Rosa Palazón Mayoral
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2010-09-01
Series:Literatura Mexicana
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Online Access:https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/literatura-mexicana/index.php/lm/article/view/634
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Summary:From 1821 to 1827, Fernández de Lizardi assumed, consciously or unconsciously, that the Mexican United States needed to have a “Reference” or ascendants which would be different than Spain, and which would serve them as collective orderers oriented toward defending the persistence of the nation-state which was being forged. We imaginarily organize ourselves in families because “nation” (from natio, nationis, brood) signifies brotherhood and identification of its members with forms of living-together favorable to the majority. Without justice putting into progress the “Reference,” whether mythical or secular, societies can fall into unsociability. In a strongly patriarchal stage, Lizardi gave the status of mothers of the homeland to the women who participated in the epic of independence.
ISSN:0188-2546
2448-8216