Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution: Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico

Index

index Aguilar Mora, Jorge, 151n35, 157n38, 158n47 El águila y la serpiente (Guzmán), 8, 10, 81, 107; Arielismo in, 80, 83–89, 93; book title, 80, 154n11; civilizing code in, 10, 89–94, 95, 97; classical culture in, 84–85, 87–88; composition techniques, 82–83, 155–156n28; English version of, 154n6; Guzmán the narrator in, 90–91; historical characters in: —Carranza, Venustiano, 81, 82, 156n36 —De la Huerta, Adolfo, 82 —Fierro, Rodolfo, 88 —Obregón, Álvaro, 79, 81, 82 —Urbina, Tomás, 95–96 —Villa, Francisco, 10, 79, 80, 81, 88, 89–97, 126; rebel masses and mexicanidad in, 79–80, 83, 88, 89, 94, 157n45; spatial politics in, 85–87, 89; storytelling and integrative nationalism, 10, 94, 96–97; urban citizenship in, 79, 85–86, 89, 93, 94, 138; writing of, 77, 78–82 Aguirre Benavides, Luis, 128 Alonso, Ana María, 59 Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel: El Zarco, 157n41 Amador, Neftalí, 89, 90 Anderson, Benedict, 116, 144n34 Anderson, Danny, 147n43 Ángeles, Felipe, 80. See also El águila y la serpiente A orillas del Hudson (Guzmán), 78 Apaches, 59, 105 Apuntes sobre la vida militar de Francisco Villa (Campobello), 54, 69, 124 Ariel (Rodó), 83, 84, 156n32 Arielismo, 80, 83–84, 155n21. See also El águila y la serpiente A sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vargas Arreola), 124 Atelesis, atelismo, or vida atélica, 10, 84, 86, 87, 88, 93 Ateneístas, 84, 107, 130 Azuela, Mariano, 7, 9, 17, 32, 54, 100, 114, 118, 131, 139; anti-peasant bias, 33, 34, 36, 46; convergence with Calles’ ideology, 28; liberal ideology, 8, 23, 25, 31, 47, 138, 144n1; literary criticism and, 24; positivistic criminology in, 146n21; and postrevolutionary cultural hegemony, 35 Barthes, Roland, 39 Bassols, Narciso, 19 Bauche Alcalde, Manuel, 126, 127–128 Beltrán, José, 153n67. See also Cartucho Benjamin, Walter: on storytelling, 153n75 Berger, John, 65 Bergson, Henri, 84 180 writing villa’s revolution Blanco, José Joaquín, 39, 46 Boutroux, Émile, 84 Bruce-Novoa, Juan, 78 Calles, Plutarco Elías, 8, 9, 20, 51, 53, 87; during Cardenismo, 120, 123, 125, 163n47; against the Catholic Church, 79, 154n8; and ideology of the Revolution, 14–15; on land reform , 13, 18; literary policy under, 24; and national reconstruction, 13; peasants under, 14; politics of centralism, 21; presidential candidate , 78, 79; socialist education, 19; and La sombra del caudillo, 125, 161n18; struggle for state hegemony , 13; views on the middle class, 14; violence during the presidency of, 13–14, 18 Campobello, Gloria, 50–51 Campobello, Nellie, 8, 9, 48, 58, 125, 131, 140; changing intellectual status , 161n15; compiler of corridos, 53; early life, 50–51, 148–149n5; gender obstacles and intellectual survival, 149n16; on the geography of northern Mexico, 151–152n45; and ideology of Cardenismo, 124; on Los de abajo, 148n55; and Mexico’s frontier culture, 138–139; stay in Havana, 51–52; on Villa, 51–52, 53, 150nn28,29 Cárdenas, Lázaro, 8, 120, 122, 135; and agrarian reform, 120; antiurban bias, 126–127; break with Calles, 123, 125; national integration policies, 120–123, 137; and non-individualistic citizenship, 127; policy towards peasants, 120, 121, 126–127. See also Cardenismo Cardenismo: historical revisionism under, 123; populist nationalism during, 121–122; socialist idals under, 122, 129; Villa’s status under, 10, 120, 124, 126–127, 136, 137; Villista literature during, 8–9, 10–11 Carr, Barry, 59 Carranza, Venustiano, 2, 80, 87, 129, 131; and anti-Villa propaganda, 3, 126, 131; death of, 3; and political centralism, 21. See also El águila y la serpiente; Cartucho; Villa Cartucho (Campobello), 8, 50; antiCarranza sentiments in, 54, 60, 69, 70, 71–72; child fantasy in, 61–65; concept of violence in, 138–139; corrido elements in, 53, 54, 63, 69, 151n33; critical approach to, 49; female characters in, 65, 66–69, 74, 152–153n64; the grotesque in, 55–57, 151n41; historical characters in: —Beltrán, José, 67 —Fierro, Rodolfo, 74 —Herrera clan, 163–164n53 —López, Pablo, 69–71 —Máynez, Ismael, 54, 58, 60 —Ortiz, Santos, 68, 75 —Rodríguez, José, 71–72, 75 —Urbina, Tomás, 49, 58, 72–75 —Villa, Francisco, 53, 72–74; Indian characters in, 152–153n64; memory and cultural resistance, 48, 66–69, 75–76, 153n66; narrative perspective in, 52; narrative strategies in, 54–55; Parral (Hidalgo del), 48–49, 58, 62, 63, 70, 71; regionalism in, 49, 57–61; regional revolutionary mythology in, 69–76; subaltern perspectives in, 9–10; thematic organization of, 49, 148n4; the writing and...