| | Delirio--the Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Reel: The Buried History of Nuevo Leon |  | Author: Marie Theresa Hernandez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 6000797
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0292731299
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.80097213
EAN: 9780292731295
ASIN: 0292731299
Publication Date: August 15, 2002
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Condition: Excellent condition, no dust jacket
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Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of an entire, secret city hidden under modern-day Monterrey. All these stories have no place or corroboration in the official histories of Nuevo Leon. In this pioneering ethnography, Marie Theresa Hernandez explores how the folktales of Nuevo Leon encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been lost, repressed, or fetishised in "legitimate" histories of the region. She focuses particularly on stories regarding three groups: the Sephardic Jews said to be the "original" settlers of the region, the "disappeared" indigenous population, and the supposed "barbaric" society that persists in modern Nuevo Leon. Hernandez's explorations into these stories uncover the region's complicated history, as well as the problematic and often fascinating relationship between history and folklore, between officially accepted "facts" and "fictions" that many Nuevoleneses believe as truth.
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