Bibliograph

Las soldaderas, women of the Mexican revolution, Elena Poniatowska ; translation by David Dorado Romo

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Las soldaderas, women of the Mexican revolution, Elena Poniatowska ; translation by David Dorado Romo

Language

spa

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Las soldaderas

Medium

electronic resource eBook

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dictionaries

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Elena Poniatowska ; translation by David Dorado Romo

Sub title

women of the Mexican revolution

Summary

The photographs of Las Soldaderas and Elena Poniatowska's remarkable commentary rescue the women of the Mexican Revolution from the dust and oblivion of history. These are the Adelitas and Valentinas celebrated in famous corridos mexicanos, but whose destiny was much more profound and tragic than the idealistic words of ballads. The photographs remind Poniatowska of the trail of women warriors that begins with the Spanish conquest and continues to Mexico's violent revolution. These women are valiant, furious, loyal, maternal, and hardworking; they wear a mask that is part immaculate virgin, part mother and wife, and part savage warrior; and they are joined together in the cruel hymn of blood and death from which they built their own history of the Revolution

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