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Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Campobello, Nellie
Meyer, Doris
Matthews, Irene

Paperback

Series: Texas Pan American

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0292711115
ISBN13: 9780292711112
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Mar 1 1988
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

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.

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