Violence and construction of the mexican state in literature

Abstract

During the second half of the 20th century, in Mexico, there weren’t neither academic nor independent researches on the construction of the State and its close relationship with violence. Such kind of works have emerged just at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the current one; however, the link between that construction of the State and aggressive acts has been a constantly discussed subject in literature. Both the grey zone exposed by Wil G. Pansters, and the informal system appear perfectly portrayed not only in the literature of the past sixty years: these concepts have been present at the creation that arose in Mexico since its independence in the 19th century. Of course, some of these works have had to wait years to circulate freely, because in its time they were vetoed or censored.