The Construction of the Heroism of Mariana de Jesús: National Identity and Collective Suffering

This article addresses three interrelated themes in the study of national identity: collective suffering, the aggression of nature related to earthquakes and the construction of heroism based on a feminine icon: Mariana de Jesús. To explain the novelty of these themes, we resort to a methodological...

• Main Author: Gutiérrez Chong, Natividad (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: identidad nacional; sufrimiento colectivo; nacionalismos; heroínas; símbolos nacionales; naturalización; national identity; collective suffering; nationalisms; heroines; national symbols; naturalization
• Online Access: https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/414