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VICTORY, Solange. Of women, zapatistas and chased: The Cristero War in the work of Elena Garro. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.1, pp.257-302.  Epub 22-Ago-2022. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.047.

This essay will aim to analyze the meanings of the recreation of the Cristero War in Elena Garro's narrative, in order to rethink the way in which her work re-elaborates the literary tradition defined by the Novel of the Mexican Revolution. Beginning with the analysis of Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963), novel in which the representation of this civil war resulting from the confrontation between the Mexican Church and the State occupies the entire second part, the investigation will be extended to other works by the author to demonstrate how this specific angle of study allows us to clarify and broaden the understanding of key aspects through which the Garro´s writing criticizes, appropriates and reestablishes the literary and cultural forms of a triumphant Revolution that, in Mexico’s 20th century, works as the axis around which all the other senses are arranged and defined. We will consider the Cristero War in Garro's work under three perspectives: historical-political, gender and epistemological.

Palabras clave : Elena Garro; Cristero War; Novel of Mexican Revolution; National identity.

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