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T1 Marvellous Syncretism in Katheleen Alcalá's Trilogy about the Sonoran Desert
A1 Alonso Alonso, María
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB This paper offers an approach to Kathleen Alcalá's trilogy about the Sonoran Desert, a series through which the author is able to explore and examine Porfirio Díaz's autocratic decades that eventually led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910. Alcalá uses in her novels a number of characters who belong to different racial and cultural backgrounds to emphasise the importance of Mexican mestizaje. Moreover, the author manages to create a marvellous world of magic through the three volumes of the trilogy where each group of characters corresponds to a different distinctive element of Mexican racial, cultural, religious and linguistic syncretism. Therefore, and despite the fact that each novel of the trilogy can be easily read independently, this paper will take into consideration the three volumes as a whole in order to analyse the way in which the author intermingles the characters' experiences during these tumultuous decades to highlight the importance of indigenous populations and their folklore in the conceptualisation of Mexican mestizo legacy.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17391
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17391
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2011, N.32, pags.7-25
DS UVaDOC
RD 02-dic-2024