Abstract

MARTIN BLAZQUEZ, Francisco Miguel. Guerrilla Warrior, Liberal, Insurgent, and Transterrado. Xavier Mina’s Figure Within the Historical-Literary Imaginaries of Spanish Exile in Mexico. Secuencia [online]. 2022, n.114, e2099.  Epub Feb 07, 2023. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i114.2099.

The figure of Xavier Mina Larrea, a famous young liberal guerrilla fighter from Navarre during the Spanish revolutionary period (1789-1817), rooted deep as a myth as certain contemporary Spanish-Mexican imaginaries. Considered a father of the modern Mexico and an icon of political liberalism in Spain, his memory has been present in the composition of historical and literary studies and narratives. Our proposed approach attempts to take stock, from discursive and symbolic analyses, of their presence in the work of some Spanish exiles from Franco’s regime who took refuge in Mexico during the central decades of the 20th Century. Doing so, we tried to trace the uses of this character and his status as an identifying element between different moments in Spanish history, thereby recreating an image of a constant within the phenomenon of exile, and of a tradition of progressive thought and action against the oppression implemented by hegemonic conservative sectors.

Keywords : Xavier Mina; Spanish republican exile; historiographic imaginaries; progressive historiography; Mexico.

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