Salomé y Judith (1959) de Rosario Castellanos: construcción del/la indígena e interseccionalidad en un poema dramático sobre la Revolución Mexicana

Isidora Javiera Sánchez Rodríguez

doi:10.5354/0719-4862.2024.76346

Salomé and Judith (1959) by Rosario Castellanos: building the indigenous identity and intersectionality in a dramatic poem about the Mexican Revolution

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Isidora Javiera Sánchez Rodríguez Universidad de Chile https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0128-1189

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This paper analyses, from a literary and a cultural perspective, the dramatic poem Salomé y Judith (1959). This piece was written by Mexican author Rosario Castellanos and represents two war episodes, one before and the other during the Mexican Revolution. The analysis focus on exoticization and oppression mechanisms, as well as the strategic use of women and indigenous people within a group of different characters that represent social positions in Chiapas at the beginning of the 20th Century. Specifically, this work is about the representation of indigenous people in Salomé y Judith (1959) and intends to describe critically how the intersections between oppressions and gender and race identities (intersectionality) are represented. From this analysis and the dialogue with previous studies, I state that an intersectional perspective exists in the poetic and dramatic construction of Castellano’s poem.

Keywords:

Salomé and Judith, Rosario Castellanos, Mexican Revolution, indigenism, intersectionality

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