Conquering Myths
The Construction of "Mexico" in the Spanish Republican Imaginary of Exile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955421 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francie Cate-Arries (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 223-223 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2176 • E-ISSN: 1553-0639 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/474498 |
| OpenAlex | W2092667858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
T-~,~ ~p. HE discovery of the Spanish conqueror Hernin Cort6s' remains in Mexico City in November of 1946-eerily on the very eve of the fourth centennial of his death--caused a stir in the Mexican press, and resuscitated a high-pitched polemic surrounding Cort6s' legacy to the American continent. The memories of the conquest occasioned by the disinterment of Cort6s' bones would be similarly invoked in Mexico during the forties and the fifties by a parallel apparition of the body of Cort6s: the textual corpus of the Conquerors' chronicles. As more than 20,000 Spanish exiles arrived on Mexican shores following the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, the earlier Spanish voyagers' foundational tales of the discovery of the New World-and the concomitant engendering of the Spanish national identity as the
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Centennial · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Humanities · Identity (music · Mexico city · Mythology · Power (physics · Spanish Civil War · The Imaginary · Classics · History · Media, Journalism, and Communication History · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish History and Politics
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |