Fictional migration and identities in Conchita Jurado’s proto-performances (Mexico City, 1926-1931)
Abstract
This article considers the socio-cultural meaning of the balmoreadas, a kind of heavy jokes that arise as a creative response to the privileged migration of Spaniards to postrevolutionary Mexico and whose victims were a wide range of persons. The text also reflects critically on the mutual construction of identities, these of Concepcion Jurado, a common woman of her time and the one of the fictional person she played in the completion of the balmoreadas, a rich Spanish immigrant Don Carlos Balmori who ended up eclipsing her. Finally, the article emphasizes the importance of balmoreadas as precursors of the art of action or performance art.Downloads
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