Description
This study demonstrates how the original, exclusive portrayals of the ideal nation and its ideal citizens are carried into the Post-Revolutionary era, whereby, authors such as Rosario Castellanos, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Samuel Ramos, Rodolfo Usigli, and Xavier Villaurrutia view their society as a system that has segregated rather than unified individuals into one nation. Hence, the States legitimacy and authority to imagine what is considered the ideal is questioned explicitly, as is the authenticity of its foundational imaginings. The book responds directly to Doris Sommers Foundational Fictions (1991). While Sommers premise equates the writing of the romantic union of lovers from different backgrounds to the eventual success of the nation, this work exploits and expands the interdependent relationships between ideology, literature and the Mexican State that essentially guaranteed the failure of successful nation building. Moreover, this text exposes this failure through analyzing how twentieth-century Mexican authors and their works reject and contest the positivist legacy of the original foundational fictions.
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