Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution
by Elena Poniatowska
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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 show more 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.The photographs are culled from the vast Casasola Collection in the Fototeca Nacional of the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. show lessTags
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One really does need to have some familiarity with the history before reading. I tried to understand a Wikipedia article but of course that's ridiculously inadequate. This is for students, patriots... reading it in translation is awkward, I think, even if one does know the subject.
The pictures are moving even though I didn't understand them. They are titled only with date, maybe place, not subject(s).
Dang I wish my schooling had had more history, esp. world history... I keep trying to play catch-up and keep failing.
The pictures are moving even though I didn't understand them. They are titled only with date, maybe place, not subject(s).
Dang I wish my schooling had had more history, esp. world history... I keep trying to play catch-up and keep failing.
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Elena Poniatowska is the author of more than forty works, including the classic Massacre in Mexico and the novels Dear Diego and Tinisima (FSG, 1996). She lives in Mexico City. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution
- Original title
- Las Soldaderas
- Original publication date
- 2006
- People/Characters
- Adelita (a soldadera); Adela Velarde Pérez
- Important places
- Mexico
- Important events
- Mexican Revolution
- Original language
- Spanish
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 972.08 — History & geography History of North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Later history (1867-)
- LCC
- F1234 .P785 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Mexico
- BISAC
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- Members
- 77
- Popularity
- 409,003
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 1
