| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 159 pages) |
| Series |
Library of Latin America |
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Library of Latin America.
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Series Editors' General Introduction -- Introduction Accusations, Confessions, and Proclamations -- Chapter 1 Truth and Falsehood -- Chapter 2 How Lovely! -- Chapter 3 Heroic Troops -- Chapter 4 Soldaderas -- Chapter 5 The Hand of General Díaz -- Chapter 6 Ready to Kill or Be Killed -- Chapter 7 The Beast's Due -- Chapter 8 Apparent Causes -- Chapter 9 By Divine Miracle -- Chapter 10 Cruz of Tomochic, High Chief -- Chapter 11 The Dawn of the Idyll -- Chapter 12 Toasts on the Eve of Battle -- Chapter 13 The Satyr's Trap -- Chapter 14 Forward . . . March -- Chapter 15 Crossing the Sierra Madre -- Chapter 16 Recalling the Campaign against the Apaches -- Chapter 17 Tomochic! There It Is! -- Chapter 18 The Defeat of the First Column -- Chapter 19 Worse Than Defeat -- Chapter 20 Defeat of the Second Column -- Chapter 21 Tomochic Prepares Itself -- Chapter 22 The Sad Retreat -- Chapter 23 An Extraordinary Surprise -- Chapter 24 Lyricism: The Virgin and the Hero -- Chapter 25 In Pursuit -- Chapter 26 After the Looting, the Fires -- Chapter 27 The Capture of Cerro de Cueva Hill -- Chapter 28 The Death of a Hero -- Chapter 29 The Tomochic Sun -- Chapter 30 Sotol and Kerosene -- Chapter 31 The Dogs of Tomochic -- Chapter 32 The Burning of the Church -- Chapter 33 Prisoners of War -- Chapter 34 Praying, Singing, and Killing -- Chapter 35 Chabolé from Sonora -- Chapter 36 The Last Blaze -- Chapter 37 Long Live Death! -- Chapter 38 The Saint of Cabora -- Chapter 39 Julia Was Dead, Then -- Chapter 40 Chapultepec, Chapultepec -- Chapter 41 It Had to Be -- Chapter 42 Alone -- Editor's Notes |
| Summary |
Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction. Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted in the massacre of the small village of Tomochic, located in the Tarahumara mountains and ordered by the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Diaz. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the then second lieutenant, Heriberto Frias, and written by him in collaboration with Joaquin Clausell, editor of the newspaper which published it in serial form between March and April of 1893. For a period after the series' publication, the author chose to maintain anonymity. It was expressly this stance which excited more public interest than any other Mexican writer of the 19th century and which eventually led to a drawn out trial to uncover the identity of the author and to implicate him. For, although it is a work of fiction, the general plot of the work, involving a confrontation between a professional army and a handful of citizens, was too similar to the actual massacre as to not be seen by Porfirio Diaz as a reprovement of himself and his regime. As a piece of literature, the novel is also admired for its incorporation of two important trends of the nineteenth century-history as literature and the war novel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Tomóchic (Mexico) -- History -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Mexico -- Tomóchic
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jamison, Barbara
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Saborit, Antonio, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9781429459167 |
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1429459166 |
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