De la gesta heroica a los “chispazos” de humor. Representaciones de Hernán Cortés en la prensa de la Ciudad de México (1900-1910)

Abstract

As the conqueror of Mexico, Hernán Cortés has been a controversial figure in Mexican history and the press. We will present an overview of what the Mexico City newspapers published about him between 1900 and 1910 to answer the following questions: what was written about Cortés? linked? And what were the publications trying to do with it? Through the Framing theory, we will review, segment and study a documentary corpus of newspaper articles to show a process of distension around his figure as a journalistic subject in which, without denying the discussions of the past, although qualifying them, he began to be linked more to anecdotal and somewhat trivial issues as a result of a change in the framing by the newspapers that was linked to the Mexican government agenda.