Abstract

ALVAREZ-CUARTERO, Izaskun. Yucatán as a Historical Setting in the Texts of Alice Dixon Le Plongeon and Maude Mason Austin. Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.2, pp.187-224.  Epub June 30, 2021. ISSN 0122-2066.  https://doi.org/10.18273/revanu.v26n2-2021007.

This article aims to analyze the vision of Yucatan offered in the works of Alice Dixon Le Plongeon and Maude Mason Austin, two Ango-Saxon travelers and writers. Both texts belong to different chronologies and women with very different activities and experiences, they are linked to two of the most attractive episodes in the dynamic history of Yucatán. It is during the archaeological fever for the Yucatecan pre-Hispanic monuments where the British Alice Dixon Le Plongeon is found; she is the author of Notes on Yucatan, published in 1879, the impressions written during her archaeological work in the Maya sites with her husband, the archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. The second protagonist of this study is Sue Mason Austin, usually called Maude Mason Austin, who would travel throughout post-revolutionary Mexico during the first two decades of the Twentieth-century and who would leave us an extraordinary testimony entitled En Yucatán. Both texts produce a real-life portrait of the region and themselves in their strategies of self-representation.

Keywords : Latin American History (México); Travel; Biographies; Yucatan History; Travel accounts; Mayas; Maude Mason Austin; Alice Dixon Le Plongeon.

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