Delirio--the fantastic, the demonic, and the reel : the buried history of Nuevo Leon / Marie Theresa Hernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Marie Theresa, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Mexico--Nuevo Leon (State).

Ethnology.

Folklore--Mexico--Nuevo León (State).

Folklore.

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Nuevo Leon (State)--History.

Indians of Mexico.

Nuevo León (Mexico : State)--History.

Nuevo León (Mexico : State).

Nuevo León (Mexico : State)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press Austin, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo León 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 León. In this pioneering ethnography, Marie Theresa Hernández explores how the folktales of Nuevo León encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been lost, repressed, or fetishized in "legitimate" histories of the region. She focuses particularly on stories regarding three groups: the Sephardic Jews said to be the "original" settlers of the region, the "disappeared" indigenous population, and the supposed "barbaric" society that persists in modern Nuevo León. Hernández'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 "facts" and "fictions" that many Nuevoleneses believe as truth.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. HISTORY

CHAPTER I. Don Gregorio Tijerina: General Bravo, Nuevo León

CHAPTER II. Before and After History: Los Chichimeca y Carvajal

PART TWO. LANDSCAPE AND NARRATIVE

CHAPTER III. Televisa: Finding Alvarado

CHAPTER IV. Spaces In-between

PART THREE. ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINARIES

CHAPTER V. A Place of Origins

CHAPTER VI. The Mystic and the Fantastic

PART FOUR. LOCATIONS OF LE RÉEL

CHAPTER VII. The Discourse of Illusion: Los Sefardíes

CHAPTER VIII. Inquisition: The Present

CHAPTER IX. La Sultana del Norte: The Second Nuevo Reino

CHAPTER X. La Joya: The House on Arreola

CHAPTER XI. Conclusion: Delirio and the Finality of Pragmatic Connections-a Paradox

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79642-0

OCLC:

191929222