Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. They are noteworthy, too, as one of the few first-person accounts 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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Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. They are noteworthy, too, as one of the few first-person accounts 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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Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

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Overview

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. They are noteworthy, too, as one of the few first-person accounts of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292711112
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 03/01/1988
Series: Texas Pan American Series
Edition description: 1ST ED.
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 999,695
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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
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