Cartucho ; and, My mother's hands
/ by Nellie Campobello ; translated by Doris Meyer and Irene Matthews ; introduction by Elena Poniatowska
- 1st ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press , 1988.
- xiv, 129 p. ; 23 cm.
- The Texas Pan American series .
Translation of: Cartucho and Las manos de mamá.
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. They are noteworthy, too, as one of the few first-person accounts of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.