Identity, History and Border in Jordan’s Peninsula

Abstract

This article analyzes the representation of the Baja California penin-sula as conceived by Mexican writer Fernando Jordán. Specifically, it highlights how, for Jordán —a journalist by trade— the peninsula embodies the generalized idea of a distant, unknown space must be incorporated into the national imaginary but not without first acknowledging its distance from central Mexico and three decisive factors: the formation of a distinct identity, the historic absence of a dominant civilization, and its proximity to and dependence on the United States. Consequently, the article outlines arguments for an in-tegrative reflection that, viewed from a distance, presents a complete image of this material and symbolic reality, revealing its contrasts and continuities with the rest of the nation.