Imaginaries of peasant speech in the novel of the revolution: literary microhistory as a proposal

This paper proposes an analysis of peasant speech in the novels Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela and Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo from the perspective of literary microhistory.It starts from the recognition that literature does not faithfully represent reality, but rather constructs interpretations or imaginaries influenced by historical, social, and cultural contexts (microhistorical part).Through a comparative study of both works, it examines how a collective imaginary of peasant speech is configured which, although far removed from indigenous or real oral tradition, persists as a narrative model in the Mexican literary tradition (literary part).This representation does not obey a historical record of rural speech, but rather literary conventions.The analysis consists of interpreting the diegesis of the literary works and contrasting it with documentary sources to trace the creative processes that defined this form of speech in the literary work.Literary microhistory demonstrates how peasant speech has a literary imaginary with ironic, religious, and colloquial features, detached from the real indigenous elements of the revolutionary context, and reveals how these decisions respond to specific contexts rather than a desire for realism.Literary microhistory thus allows us to understand how certain linguistic imaginaries are consolidated and transformed in literature.