Abstract

LINARES LONDONO, Óscar Javier. About heroes, ancient nations and fratricidal wars: Three foundational myths in three Mexican nation's historiographic stories. Folios [online]. 2010, n.32, pp.7-22. ISSN 0123-4870.

The canonical interpretation of the independence of Mexico explains the facts that go from 1810 to 1821 as the emancipation of the Mexican nation, ancient nation that traced back its national identity to the Mexican people, inhabitants of the Valley of Mexico before the Spanish arrived. Oppressed for three hundred years under Spanish rule, the Mexican nation achieves its independence through nationalist movement of its heroes. This interpretation, built by the nineteenth-century historiographical tales, is based on what we call the nation founding myths: the myth of the ancient nation, the myth of the heroes, and the myth of irreconcilable conflict between Creoles and Spanish people. Nineteenth-century historiography will spread these myths with the firm intention of legitimizing the independence movement and give a consistent story to the emerging nation.

Keywords : foundational myths; historiographic tale; nation; Mexican Independence.

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