Jordán´s Peninsula

Abstract

In the following work I study the arguments related to the Baja California peninsula embodied by the writer Fernando Jordán in the books El otro México. Biografía de Baja California (1951), Mar Roxo de Cortés. Biografía de un golfo (1995) and Baja California, tierra incógnita (1996). Or, more specifically, I analyze the general implications of the discursive strategy followed by Jordán once he travels inside this space and incorporates, through journalistic writing, its most striking signs into something that we can well call the Mexican-revolutionary imaginary of the middle of the last century. Taking into account, for the same reason, the correlates of factors such as the collective ignorance that existed about the then federal territory or its distance from the center of the country, I point out the proactive role of Jordán in this informative work that combines the manifestation of different experiential, cultural and political issues.