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Foundation and Contradiction in José Vasconcelos' Ulises Criollo

Garza-González, Cristóbal
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1214606328

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2008, Master of Arts, Miami University, Spanish.
José Vasconcelos' memoir, Ulises Criollo narrates the coming of age and the author's experience from the years of Porfirio Díaz's dictatorship until the assassination of president Fransisco I. Madero during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s. Scholars have qualified Vasconcelos' narrative, life and thought as utterly contradictory due to the many changes and contrasts in his political views. This essay contends that Vasconcelos modeled his memoir after the foundational romances produced in the 19th century only to shatter the very genre that the author was following. By privileging freedom over family attachment and pragmatism over nationalistic isolation the work challenges the values of procreation and sovereignty. Reading Ulises Criollo as a historical account that works also as a literary fiction reveals that the contradictions within the text serve a political agenda for national reconstruction in post-revolutionary Mexico and the creation of a new myth for the emerging nation.
Raúl Ianes, Dr (Advisor)
Kerry Hegarty, Dr (Committee Member)
Patricia Klingenberg, Dr (Committee Member)
45 p.
Latin American Literature
Mexican Revolution; National Identity; Myth; Nation Building; Memoir; Autobiography

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  • Garza-González, C. (2008). Foundation and Contradiction in José Vasconcelos' Ulises Criollo [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1214606328

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Garza-González, Cristóbal. Foundation and Contradiction in José Vasconcelos' Ulises Criollo. 2008. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1214606328.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Garza-González, Cristóbal. "Foundation and Contradiction in José Vasconcelos' Ulises Criollo." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1214606328

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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