Mexican Existentialist Ethics and the Pragmatic Authenticity of Rodolfo Usigli's El gesticulador

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  • Stephanie Merrim Brown University

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https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v43i2.4656

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This article explores the genesis of Mexican literary existentialism in Usigli’s 1938 play, El gesticulador. It elucidates various key drives of Mexican existentialism from Usigli’s moment onward and situates Usigli’s literary existentialism within those drives. In so doing, the essay articulates the deeply-rooted ethical bent of a Mexican existentialism forged in the orbit of identity discourse. It argues that Usigli’s morally equivocal drama makes unexpected common cause with that bent: dynamically conjugating stagecraft, Mexican philosophy, and post-revolutionary politics, El gesticulador advances a pragmatic authenticity based on altruism, communitarianism, and principles over Truth.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Stephanie Merrim, Brown University

Royce Family Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University

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2020-04-19

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