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Delirio-The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Reel: The Buried History of Nuevo Leon
Author: Marie Theresa Hernandez
Year: January 1, 2002
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 11 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2002
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 11 MB
Language: English
Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of an entire, secret city hidden under modern-day Monterrey. All these stories have no place or corroboration in the official histories of Nuevo Leon. In this pioneering ethnography, Marie Theresa Hernandez explores how the folktales of Nuevo Leon encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been lost, repressed, or fetishized in and "legitimate and " histories of the region. She focuses particularly on stories regarding three groups: the Sephardic Jews said to be the and "original and " settlers of the region, the and "disappeared and " indigenous population, and the supposed and "barbaric and " society that persists in modern Nuevo Leon. Hernandez's explorations into these stories uncover the region's complicated history, as well as the problematic and often fascinating relationship between history and folklore, between officially accepted and "facts and " and and "fictions and " that many Nuevoleneses believe as truth.
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