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This paper deals with El samurái de la Graflex, by Daniel Salinas Basave. The analysis focuses on the representation of a historical character of Japanese origin: Kingo Nonaka, whose figure represents the irruption of a culture that contrasts with the attitudes and ideosyncrasy of revolutionary Mexico. Non-aka concentrates elements that form the image of a Japan in transition towards modernity. Between meditation as a method for diving and fluency with a camera, Salinas Basave follows Nonaka in his wanderings and allows the reader to appreciate details of the history of the first half of the twentieth century from a perspective "alien" to the Mexican one, while building a space for reflection on writing and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The structure of Cristina Rivera Garzas novel Nadie me verá llorar is organized with real documents taken from some patients' clinical stories at the mental hospital, La Castañeda, which was opened in 1910 to celebrate the Mexican Independence centenary. This paper explores the way in which the concepts of memory and archive are put in play to create a relationship between the historical and fictional discourses. The intersection of both discourses and its function in the level of the narrative construction and sense, bring, in the end, a particular idea of history as discipline and the question of its truth as an official discourse by the authority in power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]