Hacia una infancia de nuestra historia nacional. Las batallas en el desierto, de José Emilio Pacheco

  • Zamora, Alejandro
Publication date
August 2014
Publisher
El Colegio de San Luis A.C

Abstract

This article focuses on the dominant narratives that shaped the political, social, intimate and spiritual life of Mexico during the fifties as they are represented in the novel Las batallas en el desierto by Jose Emilio Pacheco. More specifically, it analyzes the figure of childhood (embodied in the main character, Carlitos) as an instance of resistance to such narratives, and, by the same token, as a privileged figure of critique of the adult discourses of authority (religion, politics, race, class, and moral). The author states, through a comparison with scientific studies on the effects of totalitarian narratives instilled by adults in children (i.e. religion), that such effects are not merely a literary invention or construction, but a ...

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