Obregón and Villa in the autobiographical mirror

This paper aims to compare the discursive and publishing strategies of two works pertaining to the “autobiographical sphere”: Álvaro Obregón’s Ocho mil kilómetros en campaña (1917) and Regino Hernández Llergo’s interview with Pancho Villa in 1922, which appeared in El Universal. The factual “veritat...

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Autor: Viveros Anaya, Luz América
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/3751
Acceso en línea:https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3751
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:autobiographic genres,
Álvaro Obregón,
Pancho Villa,
Mexican Revolution,
autofiguration
géneros autobiográficos,
Revolución Mexicana,
autofiguración
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Sumario:This paper aims to compare the discursive and publishing strategies of two works pertaining to the “autobiographical sphere”: Álvaro Obregón’s Ocho mil kilómetros en campaña (1917) and Regino Hernández Llergo’s interview with Pancho Villa in 1922, which appeared in El Universal. The factual “veritative” reading of both texts has undoubtedly had consequences in Mexican history. Obregon’s piece, based on war reports, letters, telegrams, first-hand accounts and so on, was used throughout decades to validate one side of the story. Likewise, the interview with Villa has come to be seen as the cause of his assassination.