Abstract

ROSADO, Juan Antonio. Ritual shooting: Initiation and apprenticeship in the Mexican Revolution novel (1932-1951). Lit. mex [online]. 2011, vol.22, n.2, pp.73-100. ISSN 2448-8216.

The year after the great debate over cultural nationalism (1932), there was a greater impetus producing a group of novels about the Mexican Revolution in which, a perceptible structure is linked to the universal theme of initiation and the process of formation of the hero. In this essay, from a selection of novels of the Revolution produced over nearly two decades, parallels and associations are drawn between these and what has usually been called a novel of formation or Bildungsroman.

Keywords : novel of the Mexican Revolution; Bildungsroman; identity; hero; myth.

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