Civilization and barbarism in the Mexican historical novel of the nineteenth

In the historical novel of the Mexican nineteenth century, most writers the equation civilization-barbarism is often presented as a social order always threatened by a "bar- baric vagueness" and violence that usually overturns on institutions always precarious, until well into the porfiriato. The elites, especially the liberals, attached great impor- tance to the novel and education "to infuse soul into the nation and Mexicans", as well as to form good citizens. Part of that dream was embodied in the historical novel in the form of certain hegemonic civilizational discourses, although there were also discordant voices in which it is important to notice.