ABSTRACT
A retrospective view of the events of 1968 in Mexico allows us to observe how the construction of the memory of those events has been a process that, beginning shortly after the Tlatelolco massacre, has been nourished by a series of successive contributions that have built up a complex framework of texts, images, and discourses, in which the representation of violence has played a key factor. The literary representation of those months of revolt and repression has been analyzed by historians and literary critics in recent studies that have privileged different points of view: among others, we should remember the contributions by Ryan Long about the relationship between narrative and politics (2008), Victoria Carpenter about the “triangle between rage, pain and shame” (2018), Héctor Jiménez Guzmán about the histories of the student movement (2018), Víctor Manuel Sanchis Amat about poetry and literary reception (2020), or the collection of essays coordinated by Jacinto Rodríguez Munguía about the need to review the participation of the different social actors in that crucial year (2007).
