Author: John Lawrence WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Time in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Time in the Novels of Agustín Yáñez
Author: John Lawrence WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Time in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Time in the Novels of Agustín Yáñez
Author: John WalkerThe Novels of Agustín Yáñez
Author: Christopher HarrisPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This study of Agustin Yanez's novels traces his feelings about the important political issues in Mexico's history and society.
The Mexican Novel Comes of Age
Author: Walter M. LangfordPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780268004507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Agustín Yáñez
Author: Linda M. Van ConantThe Myth of Unattainable Love in the Fiction of Agustín Yáñez
Author: Barbara Marie QuevedoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Dictionary of Mexican Literature
Author: Eladio CortesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313368996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
This volume features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools, and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. A collaborative effort by American, Mexican, and Hispanic scholars, the text contains bibliographical, biographical, and critical material--placing each work cited within its cultural and historical framework. Intended to enrich the English-speaking public's appreciation of the rich diversity of Mexican literature, works are selected on the basis of their contribution toward an understanding of this unique artistry. The dictionary contains entries keyed by author and works, the length of each entry determined by the relative significance of the writer or movement being discussed. Each biographical entry identifies the author's literary contribution by including facts about his or her life and works, a chronological list of works, a supplementary bibliography, and, when appropriate, critical notes. Authors are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced both within the text and the index to facilitate easy access to information. Selected bibliographical entries are also listed alphabetically by author and include both the original title and English translation, publisher, date and place of publication, and number of pages.
The Lean Lands
Author: Agustín YáñezPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477313222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
What was it that flew over with such a terrifying roar? Was it, as many said, the devil, or was it that thing a few had heard of, a flying machine? And those electric lights at Jacob Gallo’s farm, were they witchcraft or were they science? The theme of this harshly powerful novel is the impact of modern technology and ideas on a few isolated, tradition-bound hamlets in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The old ways are represented by Epifanio Trujillo, the cacique of the region, now ailing and losing his grip on things; by ancient Madre Matiana, the region’s midwife, healer, counselor, and oracle; by penniless Rómulo and his wife Merced. “Progress” is represented by Don Epifanio’s bastard son Jacob, who acquired money and influence elsewhere during the Revolution and who now, against his father’s will, brings electricity, irrigation, fertilizers, and other modernities to the lean lands—together with armed henchmen. The conflict between the old and the new builds slowly and inexorably to a violent climax that will long remain in the reader’s memory. The author has given psychological and historical depth to his story by alternating the passages of narrative and dialogue with others in which several of the major characters brood on the past, the present, and the future. For instance, Matiana, now in her eighties, touchingly remembers how she was married and widowed before she had reached her seventeenth birthday. This dual technique is superbly handled, so that people and events have both a vivid actuality and an inner richness of meaning. The impact of the narrative is intensified by the twenty-one striking illustrations by Alberto Beltrán.
Mester
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mexico in the 1940s
Author: Stephen R. NibloPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0585292086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Attention to Mexico's history after 1940 stands in the shadow of the country's epic revolution of 1910-1923, and historians and scholars tend to bring their focus on Mexican history to a close with the end of the L_zaro C_rdenas presidency in 1940. Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption examines Mexican politics in the wake of Cardenismo, and the dawn of Miguel Alem_n's presidency. This new book focuses on the decade of the 1940s, and analyzes Alemanismo into the early years of the 1950s. Based upon a decade of intensive investigation, Mexico in the 1940s is the first broad and substantial study of the political life of the Mexican nation during this period, thus opening a new era to historical investigation. Mexico in the 1940s offers a unique interpretation of the country's domestic politics during this period, including an explanation of how political leaders were able to reverse the course of the Mexican Revolution; an original interpretation of corruption in Mexican political life, a phenomenon that did not end in the 1940s; and an analysis of the relationship between the U.S. media interests, the Mexican state, and the Mexican media companies that still dominates mass communication today. Mexico in the 1940s is an excellent volume for courses in Mexican history.