Research Project. The Nepantla generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation os Spanish exiles in Mexico

The project explores the identity discourse in the essayistic texts written by the children of Republican exiles in Mexico. This so-called Nepantla generation, after the Nahuatl word for “between two worlds”, is characterized by its complex and multiple cultural identity. Through a discourse analysis of the essays of a representative sample of authors from this generation, we examine how these ‘Hispanic Mexican’ writers managed to construct an identity from the tension between the European and the American culture.