One of the salient features of Spanish American narrative in the last twenty-five years has been a rethinking of the interplay of history and literature. This dissertation focuses on Mexican author Carlos Fuentes' interest in history and his incorporation of it into seven of his novels: La region mas transparente (1958), La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962), Cambio de piel (1967), Terra Nostra (1975), La cabeza de la hidra (1978), El gringo viejo (1985), and Cristobal Nonato (1987). It addresses the appropriation, functioning, accessibility, and process of history that Fuentes offers as representative of the Spanish American endeavor to take another look at history through literature.;Using Michel Foucault's paradigm for classifying discourse and characterizing the relationship between author and text, Chapter One and Two examine the appropriation of historical discourse and its structural importance within these seven novels.;The thematic functions of history are identified in Chapter Three as a reflection of Fuentes' quest for Mexican identity and of his view on the writing process. It is seen that Fuentes equates history to the paternal figure within the familial paradigm, as proposed by Octavio Paz, of the Mexican's search for self. The consequences of such an equation are taken up in a discussion of the significance of the marginalization of the maternal in its relationship to history. In addition, the way in which history is treated by Fuentes to parallel his theory of writing, which converts it to a linguistic construct, is also discussed.;Chapter Four poses the problem of how this historical discourse speaks to the reader by evaluating the vision that Fuentes gives of history from a gender-based feminist perspective. It is observed that Fuentes maintains a traditional phallocentric narrative-voice while attempting a non-traditional feminine encoding of historical discourse.;The final chapter synthesizes the perspective on history that Fuentes offers in his novels by using the analyses from the previous chapters to sketch the vision of historical process that Fuentes' discourse represents. It is suggested that Fuentes' implicit proposal of causal historical progress runs contrary to his explicitly unorthodox manipulation of history as evidenced in the seven novels studied.
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机译：在过去的25年中，西班牙裔美国人叙事的显着特征之一是对历史与文学之间相互作用的重新思考。本文主要研究墨西哥作家卡洛斯·富恩特斯（Carlos Fuentes）对历史的兴趣，并将其纳入他的七本小说中：透明地区（1958），阿尔特米奥·克鲁兹（1962），坎比奥·皮耶尔（1967），特拉·诺斯特拉（1967） 1975年），拉希德拉（La Cabeza de la Hidra）（1978年），埃尔·格林戈·维耶霍（El gringo viejo）（1985年）和克里斯托瓦尔·诺纳托（Cristobal Nonato）（1987年）。它论述了富恩特斯作为西班牙裔美国人的代表所提供的侵占，功能，可及性和历史过程，以通过文学来重新审视历史。使用米歇尔·福柯的范式对话语进行分类并刻画作者与文本之间的关系，本章一和二考察了这七部小说中对历史话语的使用及其结构重要性。第三章确定了历史的主题功能，以反映福恩特斯对墨西哥身份的追求以及他对写作过程的看法。可以看到，Fuentes将历史等同于家族范式中的父系人物，正如Octavio Paz所提出的，墨西哥人寻求自我。在讨论孕产妇在与历史的关系中被边缘化的重要性时，讨论了这种方程式的后果。此外，还讨论了富恩特斯对待历史以平行于他的写作理论的方法，该理论将其转化为语言结构。第四章通过评估视野，提出了这种历史话语如何与读者对话的问题。恩特斯从基于性别的女权主义者的角度讲述了历史。可以观察到，富恩特斯在尝试非传统女性化的历史话语编码时，保持了传统的以阳具中心的叙事声音;最后一章通过利用前几章的分析来概述富恩特斯在小说中所提供的历史观。富恩特斯的话语所代表的历史过程的愿景。有人认为，富恩特斯对因果历史进步的隐含提议与他对七种小说所证明的对历史的明显非传统的操纵背道而驰。
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