Desde San Francisco, Laura Méndez de Cuenca. Aspectos textuales de sus crónicas viajeras

Abstract

An analytical approach to eight chronicle-letters that the Mexican writer Laura Méndez de Cuenca (born in the nineteenth century and witness to the turn of the twentieth century) sends from San Francisco, California, to the Guadalajara’s newspaper El Mercurio, between 1893 and 1894. She offers a wide range of impressions, novelties and observations full of freshness and curiosity in her collaborations about the culture she comes into contact with. The purpose of this essay is to elucidate how certain signic elements such as women, money, the United States of America and the general characteristics of fixed syntagmas shown in the text itself represents textuality. The aspects chosen for their study four fundamental concerns: hierarchy, biology, religion and moral.