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A Rosario Castellanos Reader
Offers a semiotic approach to Rosario Castellanos' writings and includes selections that show the interrelatedness of her work
The Book of Lamentations
Set in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by European invaders five hundred years ago. With the panoramic sweep of a Diego Rivera mural, the novel weaves together dozens of plot lines, perspectives, and characters. Blending a wealth of historical information and local detail with a profound understanding of the complex relationship between victim and tormentor, Castellanos captures the ambiguities that underlie all struggles for power. A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction from Mexico’s greatest twentieth-century woman writer, The Book of Lamentations was translated with an afterword by Ester Allen and introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto.
Obras reunidas
La publicaci n de estas Obras reunidas es un acto de justicia a una de las grandes escritoras mexicanas del siglo XX. Su narrativa desterr de nuestras letras la mirada ex gena y paternalista que hab a caracterizado el indigenismo mexicano. Las dos novelas aqu reunidas pretenden atrapar el tiempo ind gena en su naturaleza c clica y ceremonial y, m s a n, como el drama universal de seres determinados por una cultura milenaria cuyo choque con Occidente los ha herido y transformado.
Prospero's Daughter
A member of Mexico’s privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America’s most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O’Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos’ prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos’ experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas. O’Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos’ first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican indigenismo establishes the context for individual chapters on Castellanos’ narratives of ethnic conflict (the novels Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas and the short stories of Ciudad Real). In further chapters O’Connell reads Los convidados de agosto, Album de familia, and Castellanos’ four collections of essays as developments of her feminist social analysis.
The Nine Guardians
The Nine Guardians is crowded with the magic and malice of warring gods and men.
Oficio de tinieblas
Oficio de tinieblas está basada en el levantamiento de los chamulas de 1867 a 1870 en San Cristóbal, Chiapas, que culminó con la crucifixión de uno de ellos al proclamarlo como el Cristo indígena. Rosario Castellanos se sumerge en la historia y sus protagonistas para buscar entender las circunstancias que llevaron a un pueblo a tan desgarrador acontecimiento y lo recrea en un México cercano: el de la reforma agraria durante el gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas. Una extraordinaria narración que retrata en toda su crudeza la opresión del mundo indígena, que apenas consigue sobrevivir a la pobreza mientras enfrenta el menosprecio y despojo de sus tierras por parte de los blancos ladinos.
Another Way to be
Selections of poetry, fiction, and essays by the Mexican poet, novelist, journalist, philosopher and diplomat (1925-1974). Edited, translated, and introduced by Myralyn F. Allgood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
City of Kings
Written in 1960, these stories unfold in the Mexican state of Chiapas—the later site of the Zapatista uprising, and the author addresses controversial questions of power, class, race, and language, giving insight into the historical background of a political struggle still going on today. The complex relationship of conquerors and conquered is explored with masterful writing that earned Rosario Castellanos a permanent place in the literary history of Mexican authors.
