Having some prior knowledge on the Mexican Revolution, I think that the Underdogs portrays a real sense of what was going on at the time through this fictional story. Mariano Azuela’s writing is easy to follow and I enjoyed reading The Underdogs. At times it was quite graphic, but it really painted a picture of […]
Reading Campobello’s Cartuco was an intriguing, thought-provoking, and unique experience for me this past week. As an IR major whose focus area of study is Latin America, I was quite excited to delve into a book pertaining to the Mexican Revolution. I quite enjoyed Campobello’s writing style, as it was quite descriptive and provided effective […]
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Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho provides invaluable insight into both the Mexican Revolution and the cruelties of armed conflict in general. The format is quite unique, consisting of three parts broken down into sections based on different personalities the narrator comes across as a girl caught in the crossfire of deadly civil war. The first part recounts short […]
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This is not my first time reading this piece and I am still in awe the second time around. First, the way Campobello is encapsulating these narratives (assuming they are longer than presented) and summarizing it into somewhere between 1-2 pages is something I haven’t really encountered aside from this work of hers. I guess […]
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This week I chose to read “The Underdogs” which is a story of the Mexican revolution. For the reading this week, I purchased a hard copy of the book from the bookstore, and this was actually my first time reading a handheld version of something for school in a long time, and it made such […]
I found that I enjoyed reading Mariano Azeula’s novel, The Underdogs, much more than I did De la Parra’s novel, Mama Blanca, last week. The difference in pacing between the two texts was like night and day, with this week’s text having very short, condensed chapters. I also personally found the content more engaging and all […]
When I first read excerpts from Cartucho for SPAN 280 in 2021, I was surprised at how difficult to read I found it. Not in the typical sense that it is difficult to understand, but in that it is hard to find anything constant to latch on to. Even having read the full book, this […]
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Cartucho by Nellie Campobello was quite a jarring book. The first story that I found quite jarring was “El ‘Kirilí”. The contrast between that story and the one before was extraordinary. Due to the writing being so blunt and young, I…
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Cartucho by Nellie Campobello was quite a jarring book. The first story that I found quite jarring was “El ‘Kirilí”. The contrast between that story and the one before was extraordinary. Due to the writing being so blunt and young, I…
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I really enjoyed and was fascinated by this week’s reading “The Underdogs”, as this was an opportunity to read and learn about the Mexican Revolution from another perspective. Back at home in Mexico, every year I was surrounded by the Mexican Revolution, either in history class or during the festivities. A beautiful sense of patriotism […]
