¡A mis lectorcitos, la nación!: the build of Mexican memories throught scholars books during Porfírio Díaz government (1876-1911)

Author(s)

Júlia Rany Campos Uzun

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2013-03-19

Examining board members

Leandro Karnal; José Alves de Freitas Neto; Luiz Estevam de Oliveira Fernandes

• Advisor: Leandro Karnal

Abstract

This research attemped to discuss how the production of Mexican scholars' books, during Porfirio Díaz government (1876-1911), helped to contructed the past representation of the country. Given the ethnic, linguistic and historical diversity in this period, the investigation tried to understand how the education, specially through the scholars' books, helped to develop a commom memory and lay the foundations os a citizenship project to Mexico, at the turn of nineteenth to the twentieth. There were analysed six scholars' books that were part os an unifying project, fruit of the Educative Reform ocurried in this period. The choice of these textbooks was due to its importance in this period, its repercussion in later years and the social role of its authors. The research, inside the camp of Cultural History, intended to discuss which was the Mexican citizen thought like "ideal" as from this Educative Reform, which heroes were elected like Mexican symbols (and which others should be silent), which were the political and symbolical uses of there figures and how they represented the Mexico that the Porifian intelectuals intended to construct (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/04688-9 - ¡A mis lectorcitos, la nación! - The build of Mexican memories throught scholars books during Porfirio Díaz government (1876-1911)
• Grantee: Júlia Rany Campos Uzun
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master