La representación del pueblo en el segundo romanticismo mexicano

Abstract

This article examines different interpretations of the term pueblo, an important theme in Mexican romantic thought and a fundamental element of the nation, through the works of representative authors working in this literary current (including Guillermo Prieto, Nicolás Pizarro, Vicente Riva Palacio, Alberto G.  Bianchi, Ignacio M. Altamirano, Manuel Payno y José Tomás de Cuéllar). This study examines the different uses and social meanings that romanticism imposed on the political significance of pueblo; it also examines the construction of several social stereotypes of that era, including the popular hero and the honest artisan.