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

• Autore: Parra Max
• Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 868/.60809358
• Soggetto topico: Mexican prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Literature and the revolution
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Martin Luis Guzman's El aguila y la serpiente -- Soldierly honor and Mexicanness in Rafael F. Munoz's Vamonos con Pancho Villa! -- The battle for Pancho Villa during Cardenismo, 1935-1940 -- Villismo's legacy.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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's 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's Revolution focuses on the novels, chronicles, and testimonials written from 1925 to 1940 that narrated Villa's 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's collective identity is formed.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing Pancho Villa's revolution
• ISBN: 0-292-79620-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824308403321
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