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Writing Pancho Villa's revolution : rebels in the literary imagination of Mexico / Max Parra

By:

Parra, Max

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press , 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 185 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780292709782

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 868 PAR

LOC classification:

PQ7207.M48 P37 2005

Contents:

The politics of incorporation : the Calles era, 1925-1935 -- Villa and popular political subjectivity in Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo -- Reconstructing subaltern perspectives in Nellie Campobello's Cartucho -- Villismo and intellectual authority in Martín Luis Guzmán's El águila y la serpiente -- Soldierly honor and Mexicanness in Rafael F. Muñoz's Vámonos con Pancho Villa! -- The battle for Pancho Villa during Cardenismo, 1935-1940 -- Villismo's legacy.

Summary: The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution (and Villa' ultimate defeat and death), the new ruling elite, resentful of his enormous popularity, marginalized and discounted him and his followers as uncivilized savages. Hence, it was in the realm of culture rather than politics that his true legacy would be debated and shaped.Mexican literature following the Revolution created an enduring image of Villa and his followers. Writing Pancho Villa' Revolution focuses on the novels, chronicles, and testimonials written from 1925 to 1940 that narrated Villa' grassroots insurgency and celebrated-or condemned-his charismatic leadership. By focusing on works by urban writers Mariano Azuela (Los de abajo) and Martín Luis Guzmán (El águila y la serpiente), as well as works closer to the violent tradition of northern Mexican frontier life by Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Celia Herrera (Villa ante la historia), and Rafael F. Muñoz (¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!), this book examines the alternative views of the revolution and of the villistas. Max Parra studies how these works articulate different and at times competing views about class and the cultural "otherness" of the rebellious masses. This unique revisionist study of the villista novel also offers a deeper look into the process of how a nation' collective identity is formed.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 868 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027385

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index.

The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution (and Villa' ultimate defeat and death), the new ruling elite, resentful of his enormous popularity, marginalized and discounted him and his followers as uncivilized savages. Hence, it was in the realm of culture rather than politics that his true legacy would be debated and shaped.Mexican literature following the Revolution created an enduring image of Villa and his followers. Writing Pancho Villa' Revolution focuses on the novels, chronicles, and testimonials written from 1925 to 1940 that narrated Villa' grassroots insurgency and celebrated-or condemned-his charismatic leadership. By focusing on works by urban writers Mariano Azuela (Los de abajo) and Martín Luis Guzmán (El águila y la serpiente), as well as works closer to the violent tradition of northern Mexican frontier life by Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Celia Herrera (Villa ante la historia), and Rafael F. Muñoz (¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!), this book examines the alternative views of the revolution and of the villistas. Max Parra studies how these works articulate different and at times competing views about class and the cultural "otherness" of the rebellious masses. This unique revisionist study of the villista novel also offers a deeper look into the process of how a nation' collective identity is formed.

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