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En su artículo “The Mexican Telenovela and its Foundational Fictions”, Adriana<br />

Estill atribuye a lo mediático esa potencia como motor de la imaginación nacional que la<br />

letra parece haber perdido:<br />

The space that national literatures used to occupy now finds itself full of the<br />

telenovela, a genre whose repetitive and melodramatic structure seems to be<br />

tailor-made for nation-construction. […] As the telenovela struggles to define the<br />

nation for mass consumption, it also attempts to simplify its contours and its<br />

characters’ environs, in order to create a product palatable to so many. Stuart Hall<br />

mentions in a recent article that modernity is characterized, in part, by the<br />

“tension between the tendency of capitalism to develop the nation-state and<br />

national cultures and its transnational imperatives” (353) 8 . This contradiction can<br />

be seen in the telenovela’s awkward position as it constructs the nation and<br />

nationalism only to export it, sell it, and, eventually and inevitably, change it.<br />

(2001: 187)<br />

En el mismo sentido, y a pesar de —o acaso debido a— su espíritu fronterizo y<br />

transnacional, veo poco en el narcocorrido que pueda interpretarse como un abandono<br />

popular de la noción de mexicanidad o de latinoamericanidad. Más bien todo lo contrario:<br />

pese a su procedencia periférica dentro de la misma nación mexicana y al hecho de que,<br />

como sugiere Hermann Herlinghaus en su libro Violence Without Guilt (2009), su<br />

popularidad haya trascendido fronteras sin necesidad de pasar ni geográficamente por la<br />

8<br />

La cita proviene del artículo “Culture, Community, Nation”, publicado en 1993 en Cultural Studies,<br />

volumen 7, número 3.<br />

37

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