Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of
the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural
renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers
as Rafael Munoz and Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes and artists Diego
Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first
published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las
manos de Mama in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a
childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution
in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of
Mexico, where Pancho Villa was a popular hero and a personal friend
of her family, show not only the stark realism of Cartucho but also
the tender lyricism of My Mother's Hands. They are noteworthy, too,
as a first-person account of the female experience in the early
years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of
events from a child's perspective.
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