The dialogics of utopia, dystopia and arcadia: political struggle and utopian novels in nineteenth-century Mexico.

From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: Alba-Koch, Beatriz de | Copyright information

Nineteenth-century Mexican politics was a struggle between conservative monarchists and liberal republicans. This debate was played out in the streets, in discussion and in novels and other literature. Liberal authors wrote stories that illustrated how an ideal society might look. Conservatives wrote dystopias in the form of satire that criticized liberal ideas.

Paul Ricoeur has argued that "[a]t a time when everything is blocked by systems which have failed but which cannot be beate...

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