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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cifuentes-Goodbody, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Authors, Mexican.

Historians--Mexico--Biography.

Historians.

Biography--Authorship.

Biography.

Guzmán, Martín Luis, 1887-1976.

Guzmán, Martín Luis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

"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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: First Glimpse of Guzmán

Introduction: The Eightieth Birthday, October 1967

I. The Push for Posterity

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

2. Controlled Readings and Contested Memories in Academia

II. Looking beyond Mexico

3. Autobiographical Authority in Crónicas de mi destierro, El águila y la serpiente, and La sombra del Caudillo

4. New Biographies

III. Courting Cárdenas

5. Political Rhetoric and the Female Subject in Maestros rurales

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

Conclusion: The Tlatelolco Massacre, October 1968

Appendix: Editorial History of the Obras completas as Compiled by Guzmán

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826503695

0826503691

9780826520555

0826520553

OCLC:

940502117