Equestrian rebels : Critical rerspectives on Mariano Azuela and the novel of the Mexican revolution / edited by Roberto Cantú.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cantú, Roberto, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexican fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 1873-1952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexico's Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished member of El Colegio Nacional and, by mid-century, one of Mexico's leading novelists and literary critics. The author of novels, novellas, plays, biographies, and literary criticism, Azuela served as field doctor under Francisco Villa during the Mexican Revolution and, after Villa's military defeats in 1915, published Los de abajo (The Underdogs, 1915) while in exile in El Paso, Texas. This book of essays commemorates the first centenary of Los de a

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Mariano Azuela's Realism

La crítica literaria de Mariano Azuela

Photography and the Literature of the Mexican Revolution

Novela y fotografía de la postrevoluciંn

Relearning the Revolution

Part Two: Mariano Azuela and his Generation

Mariano Azuela, la novela de la revolución y la revolución mexicana vistos por los escritores españoles

The 'Man-Beast' and the Jaguar

Los Contemporáneos y su lectura de Mariano Azuela

Part Three: Centennial Studies on Los de abajo

Accidentes de tránsito

Jean-Luc Nancy's Mythical Community in Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo and Carlos Fuentes' Gringo viejo

"Los árboles no dejan ver el bosque"

"Esta me cuadra y me la llevo"

Part Four: Mariano Azuela and Nellie Campobello

Ethos y postura de Nellie Campobello

Épica en modo menor o guerrilla narrativa en Cartucho de Nellie Campobello

Dos perspectivas sobre los revolucionarios villistas

Part Five: Mariano Azuela and the Narrative Representations of Mexican Colonialism and Revolution

Carlos Fuentes

Don Porfirio's Indian Problem

Medical Doctor, Occultist, Revolutionary, Spy

Like Marco Polo in Michoacán

Juan Rulfo and the Mexican Novel of the Twenty-First Century

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9321-8

OCLC:

949668957