E-Book, Englisch, 808 Seiten
Reihe: The Latin America Readers
Joseph / Henderson / Kirk The Mexico Reader
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8409-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
History, Culture, Politics
E-Book, Englisch, 808 Seiten
Reihe: The Latin America Readers
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8409-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English.
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Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Style xiii
Introduction 1
I The Search for "Lo Mexicano"
Introduction 9
The Mexican Character / Joel Poinsett 11
The Cosmic Race / José Vasconcelos 15
The Sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz 20
The Problem of National Culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla 28
Does It Mean Anything to Be Mexican? / Roger Bartra 33
Mexico City 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto 41
Two Ranchera Songs / José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sánchez 53
II Ancient Civilizations
Introduction 55
The Origins of the Aztecs / Anonymous 57
The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society / Inga Clendinnen 61
Popol Vuh / Anonymous 79
The Meaning of Maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson 86
Omens Foretelling the Conquest / Anonymous 92
III Conquest and Colony
Inroduction 95
The Spaniards’ Entry into Tenochtitlán / Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Hernán Cortés 97
Cortés and Montezuma / J.H. Eliott 105
The Battles of Tenochtitlán and Tlateloclo / Anonymous 109
The Spiritual Conquest, Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta 114
Why the Indians Are Dying / Alonso de Zorita 122
The Colonial Latifundio / Enrique Florescano 131
A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard 141
On Men's Hypocrisy / Sor Juana 156
The Itching Parrot, the Priest, and the Subdelegate / José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi 160
IV Trials of the Young Republic
Introduction 169
The Siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alamán 171
Sentiments of the Nation / José María Morelos 189
Plan of Iguala / Agustín de Iturbide 192
Women and War in Mexico / Frances Calderón de la Barca 196
The Glorious Revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto 206
Décimas Dedicated to Santa Anna’s Leg / Anonymous 213
War and Finance, Mexican Style / Juan Bautista Morales 217
A Conservative Procession of Faith / The Editors of El Tiempo 220
Considerations Relating to the Political and Social Situation / Mariana Otero 226
Liberals and the Land / Luis Gonzáles y Gonzáles 239
Standard Plots and Rural Resistance / Raymond B. Craib 252
Offer to the Crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables 263
A Letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta 265
The Triumph of the Republic / Benito Juárez 270
Pofirio Díaz Visits Yucatán / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost 273
Scenes from a Lumber Camp / B. Traven 279
President Díaz, Hero of the Americas / James Creelman 285
Gift of the Skeletons / Anonymous 292
Special Section
Mexican History in Photographs / John Mraz 297
V Revolution
Introduction 333
Land and Liberty / Ricardo Flores Magón 339
The Restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera 344
Zapatistas in the Palace / Martín Luis Guzmán 351
Mexico Has Been Turned into a Hell / William O. Jenkins 357
Pancho Villa / John Reed 364
La Punitiva / Anonymous 372
Pedro Martinez / Oscar Lewis 375
Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas 387
The Constitution of 1917: Articles 27 and 123 398
An Agrarian Encounter / Rosalie Evans 403
Ode to Cuanhtémoc / Carlos Pellicer 406
The Socialist ABC's / Anonymous 411
The Ballad of Valentin of the Sierra / Anonymous 418
Mexico Must Become a Nation of Institutions and Laws / Plutarco Elias Calles 421
The Formation of the Single-Party state / Carlos Fuentes 426
The Rough and Tumble Career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells 428
A Convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernandez 439
The Agrarian Reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benitez 445
The Oil Expropriation / Josephus Daniels 452
Cardenas and the Masses / Arturo Anguiano 456
VI The Perils of Modernity
Introduction 461
They Gave Us the Land / Juan Rulfo 465
Mexico's Crisis / Daniel Cosio Villegas 470
Struggles of a Campesino Leader / Ruben Jaramillo 482
Art and Corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros 492
The Two faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett 500
Mexico / Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett 511
The Dark Deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / José González G. 512
The Sinking City / Joel Simon 520
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl / Roberto Vallarino 536
Modesta Gomez / Rosario Castellanos 545
VII From the Ruins
Introduction 553
The Student Movement of 1968 / Elena Poniatowska 555
El Santo's Strange Career / Anne Rubenstein 570
After the Earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council 579
Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas / Anonymous 591
Corazón del Rocanrol / Rubén Martínez 598
I Don't Believe Them at All / Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio 612
The COCEI of Juchitan, Oaxaca: Two Documents / Leopoldo de Gyves de la Cruz and COCEI 619
Women of Juchitan / Jeffrey W. Rubin 625
EZLN Demands at the Dialogue Table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation 638
The Long Journey from Despair to Hope / Subcomandante Marcos 646
A Tzotzil Chronicle / Marian Peres Tsu 655
Debtors' Revenge / Heather Williams 670
Mexicans Would Not Be Bought, Coerced / Wayne A. Cornelius 684
VIII The Border and Beyond
Introduction 687
Plan of San Diego / Anonymous 689
The Mexican Connection / Rudolfo Acuña 692
The Maquiladoras / William Langewiesche 698
Dompe Days / Luis Alberto Urrea 708
Pedro P., Coyote / Judith Adler Hellman 717
There's a Party Going On in Texas / Anonymous 728
Two Poems about Immigrant Life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdes 731
The Deadly Harvest of the Sierra Madre / Alan Weisman 734
Two Songs about Drug Smuggling / Salomé Guitérrez and Paulino Vargas 747
The New World Border / Guillermo Gómez-Peña 750
Suggestions for Further Reading 757
Acknowledgment of Copyrights 763
Index 773
