El museo yucateco y la reinvención de Yucatán. La prensa y la construcción del regionalismo peninsular

Abstract

This article deals with the nineteenth century journal Museo Yucateco as a memory of constructed peninsular regionalism. Published in Campeche (1841-1842) by Justo Sierra O'Reilly and José María Peralta, with a distinguished editorial board including Vicente Calero Quintana and Juan José Hernández, the journal's goal was to créate a collective memory through the construction of a Yucatec historical continuum. To achieve this they focused on history, literature and geography and converted these topics into a type of pedagogical memory that would serve as a reference to the peninsular identity. However, this construction of written memory did not clear up the uncertainties surrounding the "vacuums" that existed in ancient and contemporary history of Yucatán; nor was it successful in face of political demands with the so-called "revolution" of 1840, that brought to the fore the civic virtues of a state not only reinforcing its autonomy but also proposing its independence.