Search Results for corrido

...Robert G. Mead, Jr. El corrido mexicano . By Mendoza Vicente T. . Mexico City , 1954 . Fondo de Cultura Económica . Letras Mexicanas, 15 . Bibliography . Pp. xliv , 460 . 22 pesos . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Vicente T. Mendoza The Mexican Corrido as a Source for Interpretive Study of Modern Mexico, 1870-1950 . By Simmons Merle E. . Bloomington , 1957 . Indiana University Press . Pp. 619 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...

...John C. Dowling El corrido de la revolución mexicana . By Mendoza Vicente T. . Prologue by Flores Jesús Romero . Mexico City , 1956 . Biblioteca del Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución . Bibliography . Pp. 151 . Paper . Copyright 1957 by Duke...

...M.C.M. Few books can be labeled scholarly, informative and genuinely interesting. Merle Simmons’ study of the corrido meets all of the tests. Historians of the Mexican Revolution for years have recognized the popular corrido as a potentially important historical source but most have deigned...

...Clara Sotelo The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis . By Herrera-Sobek María . Bloomington : University of Indiana Press , 1990 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 151 pp. Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 María Herrera-Sobek has...

...Irving A. Leonard Corridos & Calaveras . Edited by Tinker Edward Larocque . Austin , 1961 . University of Texas Press . Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 60 . $5.00 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 In the appendix Américo Paredes has performed...

...Paul J. Vanderwood Batallas de la Revolución y sus corridos . Edited by Moreno Daniel . México , 1978 . Editorial Porrúa . Illustrations. Maps . Pp. xi , 169 . Paper. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Fifteen battles in Mexico’s Revolution are sketched...

... production. Limón identifies the north Mexican epic heroic ballad, or corrido , as the ancestral poetic form. These narrative folk songs appeared in South Texas by the middle of the nineteenth century and flourished through the Mexican Revolution into the 1930s on both sides of the border. Generated...

... of his band, to bring him to bay. But with her critical approach to the subject, the author endeavors to separate the real Bernal from his romantic image (not altogether necessary, as it is in a blend of the two that bandits derive their power). In the corridos she has noted the propensity...

... into the narrative to give examples of how broad trends affected individuals. Corridos are also used to give the reader a sense of what the emigrants felt concerning their experiences, but unfortunately only English translations of these corridos are provided. Another weakness of the book is its unnecessarily brief...

... of this, so great was his skill as a novelist that no taint of propaganda ever attached to his books, and Doña Bárbara is universally recognized as one of the truly great pieces of fiction produced in Ibero-America. In Mexico it was the cancioneros with their corridos who focussed attention on native...

... suggestive of their significance in the movement. The concluding chapter on literature treats in summary fashion the novel, short story and corrido of the Revolution, with only the first receiving more than cursory treatment. In his introduction the author synthesizes the revolutionary movement through 1917...

... are selections from the works of Jesús Silva Herzog, José Mancisidor, Martín Luis Guzmán, and Pablo González Casanova. Other readings include poems, corridos , and excerpts from novels on the Revolution. There is a map, some fine photographs of Posada engravings, and scenes from Elia Kazan’s Viva Zapata...

..., Thomas Weaver; The Corrido: Yesterday and Today, Américo Paredes. Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Ecology and Development of the Border Región. Ecología y desarrollo de la región fronteriza . Edited by Ross Stanley R. . Tucson : Latin American Area Center, University...

..., braceros, corridos and according to scholarly disciplines. We are also offered a list of major Mexican-American newspapers in the Southwest. As the title indicates, this is a selected bibliography and therefore does not include every single item in the field, but the selection has been judicious and I...

.... The intellectuals show animosity and disdain toward workers’ motives. This view has had a harmful effect on Chicano identity, failing to provide positive literary models. The braceros’ own image is better attuned to reality. Oral interviews and corridos forcefully project hardworking, optimistic people who...

... 1997 These 26 essays cover an expansive geographical and chronological range, from the Cantar del mío Cid to modern-day Costa Rican corridos . Other subjects include Judeo-Spanish ballads (the area in which Samuel Armistead writes with greatest authority), brief narrative collections from...

....” Posada’s work appeared on the covers of many Mexican journals throughout the Díaz years and on thousands of broadsides, especially of the ever-popular corridos. Yet he lived a life of anonymity, and he was interred by his Mexico City neighbors in a pauper’s grave, the state paying only for a sixth-class...

... of literature and the conformity of pre-established literary and linguistic norms. It is therefore not surprising that the anthology covers selections from traditional literary genres as well as some more unorthodox material: popular corridos , folk literature, poetry, stories, theater; and a spectrum...

... on Hollywood’s silver screen. Ancianos, local chroniclers, corrido balladeers, and contemporary historians have offered a collectively ambiguous judgment of the man and his actions during the Mexican Revolution. Who was the real Pancho Villa? Was he a cutthroat, a self-styled Robin Hood who stole from...