To sacrifice the hero in order to create nationalism? Clemencia by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Clemencia (1869) presents a tragic resolution with the death ofFernando Valle, the novel’s hero, depicted as patriotic, military, and moreno. The ending is problematic when considering the novel in terms of a narrativethat constructs the nation-state (Doris Sommer) because there is no explanationfor...
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Literatura Mexicana |
| Online Access: | https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/literatura-mexicana/index.php/lm/article/view/754 |