..., popular theater, improvisational singers ( payadores ), carnival troupes, sociedades gauchescas, and even children's street games. For the author, the stories of Vega, Fierro, and Moreira appealed to the common folk because they resonated with their own experience of dispossession and proletarianization...

...Irving A. Leonard Muerte y transfiguratión de Martín Fierro . By Estrada Ezequiel Martínez . [ Colección Tierra Firme, 43, 44 .] ( Mexico City : Fondo de Cultura Económica , 1948 . 2 vols. Pp. lxxxix , 393 ; 520 . Paper $30.00 m/n.) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press...

...David W. Foster Martín Fierro y la conciencia nacional . By Cárdenas de Monner Sans María Inés . Buenos Aires , 1977 . Editorial La Pléyade . Pp. 111 . Paper. Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Martín Fierro is more than a literary work: it is a cultural...

...James R. Levy The Gaucho Martín Fierro . By Hernández José . English Version by Ward C. E. . Introduction by Astiz Carlos Alberto . Illustrations by Berni Antonio . Albany , 1967 . State University of New York Press . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. xvii...

...Clifton B. Kroeber La fuerza es el derecho de las bestias . By Perón Juan Domingo . Habana , S. Touriño , [ 1956 ], Pp. 161 . Mi amigo Martín Fierro . By Bertotto José Guillermo . Rosario, Argentina , 1955 . Librería y Editorial Ruiz . Pp. 115 . Paper...

... be placed under martial law to forestall any Mexican-American uprising in conjunction with an invasion. More disturbingly, he reported that De la Rosa and a mysterious individual named Esteban Fierros had recently traveled to Mexico City to confer with General Pablo González, who was a party to the plot...

... the vote would turn, El National predicting that the division would be very close. 67 Balmaceda waited an entire week while the treaties were discussed. After many late-night sessions 68 it was finally announced on June 27 at 6:00 p.m. that the Senate had voted down both the Fierro-Sarratea accord...

... was Mexico's original pilot icon. Emilio Carranza, Pablo Sidar, Roberto Fierro, and Francisco Sarabia followed. The Escuadrón 201 became famous during its participation in World War II. But Soland isn't providing some sort of great man history. For Soland, the lives and deaths—Carranza, Sidar, and Sarabia all...

... Fierro” notes the change in the purposes of José Hernández, as expressed in the prologues to the two parts of his great poem; “Juan María Gutiérrez y Jorge Ticknor” gives details of an unimportant correspondence between the two and reprints the three letters exchanged; “Dos ediciones del Facundo...

... English translation of his most famous book, Radiografía de la Pampa (1933). For historians, Martínez Estrada’s fife and writings are a treasure trove. He took a deep interest in the history of Argentina and wrote at length about two of its main themes, the poem and myth of Martín Fierro...

... María ) and the hybridity of new genres (José Hernández's Martín Fierro and gauchesque poetry). The third chapter, “Theatricality,” studies highbrow and popular theater but also other collective cultural practices and entertainments such as carnival, bullfighting, and cockfights. The fourth chapter...

... into the literary and popular imagination in the personages of Juan Moreira and Martín Fierro. Figures like Moreira and Fierro, murderers to the state, became folk heroes and champions against oppressive authority to the people. Like the social bandit described by Eric J. Hobsbawm, the matrero stood as a man...

... polémica, ligada íntimamente a los principios del Partido Blanco del Uruguay, que no revela variantes en la ideología de Hernández sino que la reafirma bajo el discreto seudónimo. Martín Fierro , un tema tan transitado, ocupa espacio apropiado en esta obra en cuyo capítulo final se rescata la...

... veina dor.da a 6 r 011 2 2 id. finas, a 18 r.s004 4 3 id. navajas machetonas a 14 r.B 005 2 1 doz.a Espaviladeras de fierro a lj r.® cada par002 2 2 pares tixeras grandes de sastre, a 6 r 001 4 Un rozario de coyol en 6 r000 6 Un corte de naguas de seda negra en 30 p 030 0 10 pares de calzetas de hilera...

...-table collection of gaucho paintings and commentaries will be a delight to those who already have their fur-covered copies of Martín Fierro and other gauchoesque memorabilia. It could also be useful as a visual aid in courses about Argentina. Compiled from historical and literary sources from the late...

... A classic illustration of its dependence upon the Peronist regime was the fact that it did not even run its titular newspaper, El Laborista. Its editor was Ángel Borlenghi, ex-socialist labor leader, intimate of Perón, and later a notably illiberal Minister of the Interior. 9 Bustos Fierro...

..., Álvaro Obregón, and Pancho Villa, therefore, becomes strikingly obvious in these memoirs. Military action and war emerge as significant elements in Villa’s story of the Mexican Revolution. The triumvirate and all the famous revolutionary figures such as Emiliano Zapata, Rodolfo Fierro, and Plutarco Elías...

... with, and adapt to, their new homeland. The work is divided into three sections. The first examines the spread of literacy, the growth of publishing, and the expanding universe of readers for this kind of literature. The second discusses the major gauchesque works and their authors: the classic Martín Fierro...

...). Sostiene que Sarmiento, Mitre, lo mismo que Victoria Ocampo, Martínez Estrada, Mallea y Borges son productos de una cultura imperialista, semi-colonial y anti-argentina. Gran parte del libro condena los juicios de Martínez Estrada y Borges sobre José Hernández y su Martín Fierro . Su “teoría de lo...

... Carlos Prieto, president of the well-known Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey, has published a most attractively produced, lavishly illustrated and annotated version of the address he gave during the commemorative celebrations 175 years after the foundation of Mexico’s Royal College...