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Delirio―The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel: The Buried History of Nuevo León

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Striking, inexplicable stories circulate some of the people of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously rich in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of a whole, secret city hidden under brand new-day Monterrey. These types of stories haven’t any place or corroboration in the official histories of Nuevo León.

In this pioneering ethnography, Marie Theresa Hernández explores how the folktales of Nuevo León encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity which have been lost, repressed, or fetishized 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 brand new Nuevo León. Hernández’s explorations into these stories uncover the region’s complicated history, in addition to the problematic and steadily fascinating relationship between history and folklore, between officially accepted “facts” and “fictions” that many Nuevoleneses consider as truth.

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