Gentes igual que tú y que yo: los textos de Rosario Castellanos en los contrasentidos ideológicos de la política lingüística indigenista

Abstract

In this article we analyze documents written by Rosario Castellanos during the years that she worked as a scriptwriter for the puppet plays in the Highlands of Chiapas. These plays were part of educational campaigns aimed at the Tsotsil and Tseltal Maya population. We show that the discourses  circulating during the years in which indigenous politics was being  constructed were permeated by opposing and contradictory ideological tensions, tensions that were reflected in the proposal and use of categories of identification of the population and their languages, in the theoretical objectives and ideals and in the participants’ personal and collective stories.