Península, Península, de Hernán Lara Zavala: metaficción historiográfica de un intento fallido de descolonización

pp. 30-45 The Caste War in the Yucatan Peninsula, although of intermittent attacks, has been one of the longest social revolutions in Mexican history (1847-1901), whose conflict was the relationship of domination of the Creoles and mestizos over the Mayan population. Peninsula, Peninsula, by Hernán Lara Zavala offers, in the key of historiographical metafiction, the imaginary representation of the Caste War without any purpose of historical revisionism; on the contrary, the author distorts history and corrects, in a certain way, the mistreatment cruelty and humiliation of the native of the Yucatecan Peninsula under the subjugation of the whites. In this context, the novel of the Mexican author ‒as is the case with this type of novels that lo ok at themselves and also look to the past‒ seems to be a triumph of fiction over history. We approach Lara Zavala work from its metafictional and historical composition and propose a reading of the conflagration, based on some decolonizing theories, with all the decolonial intention: the rebellion of the Maya against the hegemony of the whites; however, in historical reality, such an intention was left with a failed effect.