La Adelita, I think, is allegory. The story of Adelita seems to embed and attempt to rejoin the non-militant reality of war to the battlefield. War and Revolution often take shape under (contested) masks of nationalism, and I think one reading of the story can seek alternative, non-nationalist narrative integrated into the story of fighting, despite the overt appeal to sentiment and nationalism together.
Along with all the other readings of La Adelita (one website notes that she often becomes a symbol synthesizing sexuality and patriotism), I am interested in the thought of what remains as comprising a compromised real despite a new, displacing reality of war. Songs abide. Love, feelings abide. The Human, if we believe in Adelita, does not fade.
If any word comes to the fore as a leitmotif over the last four months, it is ambivalence; I hope, then, various ambivalences come through with this piece of cardboard with some paint on it.
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