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The Echo of Tlatelolco in Contemporary Mexican Protest Poetry
Author(s) -
Carpenter Victoria
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2005.00146.x
Subject(s) - scapegoating , poetry , context (archaeology) , mexico city , construct (python library) , echo (communications protocol) , event (particle physics) , subject (documents) , literature , sociology , humanities , philosophy , history , art , politics , law , political science , archaeology , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , programming language , computer network
The shooting of a student demonstration in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco district of Mexico City on 2 October 1968 has been the subject of many literary works, among which the Tlatelolco poetry addresses not only the event itself but also the aftermath of the massacre. Both approaches examine the relationship between the ‘yo’/‘nosotros’ and ‘ellos’ constructs, focusing on the ‘nosotros’ construct as the result of this interaction. The following analysis of this process is based on the theory of self and Other, especially René Girard's theory of the mimetics of violence and the process of scapegoating as a basis for the relationship between the individual and society within the context of a violent conflict.