Women, domestic spaces, and symbolic motherhood in the dramaturgy of two periods of social reorganization in Mexico: the republican restoration and the post-revolutionary period

Abstract

This essay analyzes two dramatic texts, seeking to highlight certain parallels, such as the desire of the ruling classes to establish alliances among the parties involved in armed movements, as well as the presence of a son who could embody the future of these classes; and the house, as a domestic space, as a synecdoche. First, Vicente Riva Palacio and Juan Antonio Mateos's La catarata del Niagara is studied, followed by an analysis of Concepción Sada's El tercer personaje.

The purpose is to identify certain coincidences in two moments in Mexican history: the conflict between conservatives and liberals, and the accommodation of the ruling classes in the post-revolutionary period. In both cases, the displaced classes attempt to impose a model for the reorganization of the country to preserve their privileges.