Viajeras mexicanas en la España republicana y el discurso de la fraternidad: Blanca Lydia Trejo y Elena Garro
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https://doi.org/10.24029/lejana.2012.5.52Keywords:
Spanish Civil War, Mexico, fraternity (discourse of), Blanca Lydia Trejo, Elena GarroAbstract
This article considers the ways in which two Mexican women chose to narrate their relationship with Republican Spain at the time of the Spanish Civil War through a detailed study of Blanca Lydia Trejo’s Lo que vi en España: episodios de la Guerra (1940), and Elena Garro’s Memorias de España, 1937 (1992). The analysis focuses on the discourse of “fraternity” that flourished between Mexico and Republican Spain at the time and seeks to reveal the reasons underlying the discomfort displayed by both writers with respect to this discourse. It considers the effect of the masculinist nature of the discourse as well as its strong association with Stalinist communism. It also seeks to identify the alternatives suggested by these writers.
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