Entre antagonismos y continuidades

• Main Authors: Luna Chávez, Marisol, Díaz Arciniega, Víctor
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2020-06-01
• Series: Rassegna Iberistica
• Subjects: Rosario Castellanos. Axiological crisis. Power and cacicazgo. Mexican narrative. Woman and Sexuality. | Rosario Castellanos. Crisis axiológica. Narrativa chiapaneca. Narrativa mexicana. Mujer y sexualidad.
• Online Access: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2020/113/entre-antagonismos-y-continuidades-la-crisis-de-va/

The fight for power is a persistent topic in Rosario Castellanos’s fiction; here we consider it within the framework of Mexican moral values of her time (los Altos de Chiapas, 1935-45). The implicit axiological crisis allows us to identify problems such as: the right to express sexuality, the existence of a moral hierarchy inside different social groups, and the complexities to interact between people who live in the city and indigenous people. The latency of a social problem it’s a starting point for the narrator to investigate the techniques used by the characters to preserve and/or deal their rights.