Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Nellie Campobello (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

1988
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-71111-2 (ISBN)

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Features autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico that are noteworthy as a first-person account of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael MuÑoz and Gregorio LÓpez y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho Villa was a popular hero and a personal friend of her family, show not only the stark realism of Cartucho but also the tender lyricism of My Mother's Hands. They are noteworthy, too, as a first-person account of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.

Doris Meyer is Roman S. & Tatiana Weller Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. Irene Matthews is Associate Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Northern Arizona University.

Introduction by Elena Poniatowska
Cartucho (translated by Doris Meyer)

Translator’s Note
I. Men of the North
II. The Executed
III. Under Fire

My Mother’s Hands (translated by Irene Matthews)

Translator’s Note
She Was....
Once I Sought Her, Far Away....
Reader, Fill Your Heart with My Respect
You and He
Her Love
Our Love
Her Skirt
Her God
The Men Left Their Mutilated Bodies Awaiting the Succor of These Simple Flowers
The Men of the Troop
The Dumb One
A Villa Man Like So Many Others
She and Her Machine
Jacinto’s Deal
Plaza of the Lilacs
When We Came to a Capital City
A Letter for You

Reihe/Serie	Texas Pan American Series
Übersetzer	Doris Meyer, Irene Matthews
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-292-71111-5 / 0292711115
ISBN-13	978-0-292-71111-2 / 9780292711112
Zustand	Neuware