Project

Research Project. The Nepantla generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation os Spanish exiles in Mexico

Code
3G038410
Duration
01 January 2010 → 31 August 2015
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
exile essay Spain/Mexico
 
Project description

The project explores the identity discourse in the essayistic texts written by the children of Republican exiles in Mexico. This so-called Nepantla generation, after the Nahuatl word for “between two worlds”, is characterized by its complex and multiple cultural identity. Through a discourse analysis of the essays of a representative sample of authors from this generation, we examine how these ‘Hispanic Mexican’ writers managed to construct an identity from the tension between the European and the American culture.