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Another mask of Mexico and its people through Jorge Ibarguengoitia's Satirical prose / Ricardo Baires-Varguez

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Identifier	Thesis 1480
Author	Baires-Varguez, Ricardo
Title	Another mask of Mexico and its people through Jorge Ibarguengoitia's Satirical prose / Ricardo Baires-Varguez
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	1997
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The following is an abstract of research conducted while writing a thesis entitled "Another Mask of Mexico and Its People Through Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Satirical Prose." Some authors believe the only purpose of satirical writing is to amuse the reader without accomplishing anything else. Throughout my research I attempt to show that both satire and humor are important factors in the creation of narrative literature, and as such, are worthy of analysis to give them the merit they deserve in literature. Many writers have used both satire and humor in their creative writing. In almost all cases, they use social and political events to show the failures and mistakes a social group falls in to "make" its social order work. By presenting such failures through satire, authors are not attempting to amuse readers, but rather to invite them to consider the many problems in their society. There is a fine line between satire and humor and to draw that line with mastery is a task very few accomplish. Jorge Ibargüengoitia, thanks to the fascination he had for Mexico and its people, succeeded in defining the Mexican personality, its contradictions, humor and irony. In my thesis, I chose six novels representing the various ways the author, using different shades of irony, portrayed Mexican behavior and history. The thesis development is as follows: Chapter I establishes a historical background; gives an overview of the use of irony as an element of Mexican literature and how irony evolved from colonial times to the present. Chapter II presents Jorge Ibargüengoitia's biography. Chapter III analyzes the way the author utilized reality and fiction in Los Relámpagos de Agosto, based upon the memoirs of a soldier during the Mexican revolution. By mixing reality and fiction, the plot of this novel is neither truly accurate nor truly historical. The importance of irony in this novel resides in how the author, through the written word, demystifies a solemn event in the Mexican history. In Chapter IV, the author, by again taking a historical event in Maten al León, portrays the diverse personalities existing in Mexican society. The irony is how the author confronts those diversities and makes the characters allies, in order to overthrow their government. Chapter V focuses on how Jorge Ibargüengoitia in Estas Ruínas que Ves observes the behavior of those around him. His writing rescues actions from banality, the apparently insignificant, daily occurrences owing to a peculiar propension for solemnity, transcendency and the basic conservative nature of the Mexican society. Chapter VI is based on a true story. The author recreates the drama of many prostitutes who were killed by the madames they worked for. The author investigated and compared the original court records which were as confusing as the newspaper's coverage and then set forth upon the adventure of creating Las Muertas. Jorge Ibargüengoitia transports the reader to an underworld of murders, white slavery, exploitation, punishment and deaths, causing the reader to feel that he is witnessing the best and lightest of the farces. Chapter VII has been written by following the detective story's patterns, Dos Crímenes portrays how elements of instability and innocence in satire carry the plot in uncontrollable directions. In the end, it is the characters who rescue the author from any preconceived notions and happily tone down his detective project. In Chapter VIII Jorge Ibargüengoitia's irony in Los Pasos de López, succeeds in presenting another viewpoint on the Mexican movement of independence, a viewpoint seldom mentioned. The author restores life to the national heroes, making the reader see them as beings of flesh and blood. To do this, the vocabulary of each character in the novel is as simple as that of a common Mexican. The author presents situations portraying the characters as earthy beings, fallible, capable of loving and hating, presenting the two faces of history, the one the text books talk about, and the other few historic records have registered. His literary style is an effective use of satire in both literature as well as in Mexican history. Conclusions. It is almost impossible for human beings to face up to reality and recognize their own qualities and shortcomings when looking at themselves in a mirror that reflects the cruel truth. Ibargüengoitia takes that imaginary mirror, breaks it, and then calmly puts it back together again, recreating its reality according to his own criteria through his works. A Mexican can read Ibargüengoitia's works and sense that either his own personality is being portrayed through the narrative or feel that a close friend is relating personal anecdotes to him. It is obvious that Ibargüengoitia did not seek the path of glorification through his writing, but rather, through his satirical prose he sought to expose his very personal and incisive view point. It is without question that Jorge Ibargüengoitia made a significant contribution to the literary world with his Mexican satirical pen.
Subject	Mexican literature -- Political aspects Political satire, Mexican Ibargüengoitia, Jorge, 1928-1983
Department	Department of Modern Languages
Advisor	Uribe, Lilian
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	40172822
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