Abstract

CHARLOIS ALLENDE, Adrien. Two Television Zapatas. The Reiteration of Inherited Symbolic Uses. Hist. graf [online]. 2022, n.58, pp.133-159.  Epub Feb 21, 2022. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi58.393.

The Federal Government of Mexico declared 2019 as the “Year of the Southern Leader. Emiliano Zapata Salazar” on the occasion of the centenary of his murder. Not only did the Government tried to link itself to the social movement led by Zapata, but also established an invitation to review the character. This text intends to contribute to the analysis by reviewing the construction of his figure in national television fiction. Senda de gloria, a 1987 telenovela, and El Encanto del águila, a miniseries from 2011, are two cases through which the relationship between the television constitution of the character and the historiographic construction of the Zapatismo is reviewed. The analysis leads us to show the reiterations of differentiated symbols in two fictions of different temporality, from the relationship between television production and the historiographic environment of the moment. In this sense, changes in the representation of the past on television are part of the history of the medium itself.

Keywords : Zapata; Television; Television Fiction; Historiography.