“…Key words: Carlos Fuentes, "Chac Mool", mestizo nationalism, indigenism, gothic, queer david s. dalton / ann González Few Mexican authors have received greater attention for their depictions of Mexican identity than Carlos Fuentes. The author's most acclaimed works engage the subject in especially direct and problematic ways (Ordiz Vásquez, 1992;Filer, 1984). Throughout his writings, he constantly asserted a need for the nation to, in the words of Malva E. Filer, "integrar sus componentes indígenas y europeos, sus raíces históricas y su modernidad, y elaborar con lo mejor y más perdurable de ellos su propia y auténtica cultura" (1984, p. 476).…”