California Imaginada

Authors

  • Jorge Omar Ramírez PhD candidate in Literature, University of California San Diego.

Abstract

Imagined California

California has historically been imagined by "the other" from the colonial period to the first post-revolutionary processes of national consolidation. This essay analyzes the imaginative origins of California as a determining element for the creation of creative subjectivities in the region.

The historical period it covers begins with the "discovery" of the peninsula and its perpetuation in the global imagination as an island for more than half a century, and ends in the 1950s, when the centralist government gave the territory the title of federal entity naming it state number twenty-eight of the Mexican republic. This historical journey is analyzed through the perspective of Fernando Jordán, who traveled the length and breadth of the peninsula in the 1940s for the publication of his book El Otro México; Biography of Baja California. This piece is analyzed by means of the main points: the census, the map and the museum, appropriate from the book by Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities, with the intention of understanding Jordán’s book as an attempt to incorporate into the national logic a region  with specific historical characteristics: late colonial processes, almost null struggle for independence, differentiated national conflicts. A region in constant political and geographical rearticulation, divided between two concepts of nation that fight to consolidate their sovereignty in this space whose identity has historically been tied to imaginative processes.

Author Biography

Jorge Omar Ramírez, PhD candidate in Literature, University of California San Diego.

 

 

 

 

Jorge Omar Ramirez Pimienta Tijuana B.C 1978. Escritor/Artist Recibió su maestría en Artes Visuales por la Universidad de California en San Diego 2010 y Actualmente es candidato a Doctorado en Literatura en UCSD. Su obra ha sido presentado en galerías museos y centros culturales de E.U. México, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Alemania, Dinamarca, España y ha sido seleccionado para participar en la 3ra bienal de arte contemporáneo de Casablanca en Marruecos. Ha publicado 4 libros de poesía: Primera Persona Ella  (2004), La Libertad: Ciudad de paso (premio de publicación Conaculta/Cecut 2006), Escribo desde Aquí (2010, premio Emilio Prado, Centro Cultural Generación del 27)  y El Álbum de las rejas (2016)

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Published

2023-02-22

How to Cite

Ramírez, J. O. (2023). California Imaginada . A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 20(2), 25–46. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/2056

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2023): Winter 2023

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Articles / Artículos

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