México en clave cultural
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2006
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Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales
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Este trabajo se propone abordar aspectos paradigmáticos
de la contemporaneidad mexicana recurriendo al análisis de
la obra literaria y fotográfica producida por Juan Rulfo entre
los años 1950 y 1955. Apoyándonos en la hipótesis de Que
ambos campos estético-ficcionales sustentan pretensiones
referenciales, buscamos comprender de Qué modo las estrategias
discursivas y los mecanismos de representación utilizados
llevan las marcas de aquellos factores estructurales
condicionantes en la historia de México. No porque esas marcas
atestigüen correspondencias con hechos del pasado que
por su complejidad merecen otro rigor epistemológicos sólo
con el propósito de hallar en esa maraña discursiva elementos
Que vinculados a una red de asociaciones de sentido contemplen
variados elementos significantes de una época. Por
lo dicho, consideramos que interpretar la obra rulfiana desde
una perspectiva de larga duración echa luz sobre ese universo
discursivo rico en significaciones históricas.
This article seeks to study paradigmatical issues of contemporary Mexico through the analysis of Juan Rulfo's literary and photographical work between 1950 and 1955 Holding the hypothesis that both aesthetical and fictional fields sustain referential claims, we intend to understand how the discursive strategies and the representational mechanisms employed by Rulfo carry the traces of those structural factors that conditioned Mexico's history. We won't look at this traces as correspondent with past facts, since their complexity deserves different epistemological rigour; only with the purpose of finding, in that tangled discursiveness, significant elements of that period Thus, we find that the understanding of Rulfo's work from a long-term perspective enlightens that discursive universe, rich in historical significations.
This article seeks to study paradigmatical issues of contemporary Mexico through the analysis of Juan Rulfo's literary and photographical work between 1950 and 1955 Holding the hypothesis that both aesthetical and fictional fields sustain referential claims, we intend to understand how the discursive strategies and the representational mechanisms employed by Rulfo carry the traces of those structural factors that conditioned Mexico's history. We won't look at this traces as correspondent with past facts, since their complexity deserves different epistemological rigour; only with the purpose of finding, in that tangled discursiveness, significant elements of that period Thus, we find that the understanding of Rulfo's work from a long-term perspective enlightens that discursive universe, rich in historical significations.
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Modernización, Literatura, Fotografía, Rulfo, Juan, México, Modernization, Literature