“Cruzar la frontera del norte”: el exilio de los “indocumentados” en el teatro mexicano (Hugo Salcedo, Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, Jaime Chabaud)

• Authors: Maria Falska

Title variants

EN

“Crossing the Northern Border”: illegal immigration depicted in Mexican drama (Hugo Salcedo, Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, Jaime Chabaud)

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents a comparative study of three Mexican dramas: Los ilegales (1979) by Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, El viaje de los cantores (1988) by Hugo Salcedo, and Oc ye nechca (érase una vez) (2008) by Jaime Chabaud. These plays share the theme of Mexican citizens’ immi­gration to the USA. The ways in which parts of a dramatic play such as character, time and set­ting are constructed, will be examined to decipher how the authors’ focus on the most alarming feature of the Mexican reality, namely mass migration. The reasons behind the mass emigration from Mexico to the USA are both economy and people’s lack of sense of security. As this study delineates, the mass emigration depicted in the presented dramas is characterized as illegal and inhumane. The analysis of the three dramas demonstrates that their dramatic structures convey a definite ideological message.

Keywords

EN

illegal emigration; Mexican drama; Hugo Salcedo; Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda; Jaime Chabaud

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Estudios Hispánicos
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 25
• Pages: 33-43

Contributors

author

Maria Falska

• Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie