The man who wrote Pancho Villa : Martín Luis Guzmán and the politics of life writing / Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cifuentes-Goodbody, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guzmán, Martín Luis, 1887-1976.

Guzmán, Martín Luis.

Authors, Mexican--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Mexican.

Biography--Authorship.

Biography.

Historians--Mexico--Biography.

Historians.

Mexico.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 207 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa, we see the famous author as he really was: a careful craftsman of his own image and legacy. His five-volume biography of Villa propelled him to the heights of Mexican cultural life, and thus began his true life's work. Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody shapes this study of Guzman through the lens of "life writing" and uncovers a tireless effort by Guzman to shape his public image. The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa places Guzman's work in a biographical context, shedding light on the immediate motivations behind his writing in a given moment and the subsequent ways in which he rewrote or repackaged the material. Despite his efforts to establish a definitive reading of his life and literature, Guzman was unable to control that interpretation as audiences became less tolerant of the glaring omissions in his self-portrait"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa explores the way in which one author tried to shape and control his literary legacy through biographical and autobiographical writing"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 The Push for Posterity

1 Autobiographical Acts within and beyond "Apunte sobre una personalidad" 27

2 Controlled Readings and Contested Memories in Academia 47

Part 2 Looking beyond Mexico

3 Autobiographical Authority in Crónicas de mi destierro, El águilay la serpiente, and La sombra del Caudillo 69

4 New Biographies 95

Part 3 Courting Cardenas

5 Political Rhetoric and the Female Subject in Maestros rurales 119

6 Guzmán's Citizenship and the Vindication of Pancho Villa 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.

ISBN:

9780826520531

0826520537

OCLC:

940261004

Publisher Number:

40025726710