The underdogs
Subtitle: a new translation, contexts, criticism
By: Mariano Azuela ; translated by Ilan Stavans, Amherst College and Anna More, University of Brasilia ; edited by Ilan Stavans
Contributors: Stavans, Ilan, editor, translator; More, Anna Herron, translator
Edition: First edition, centenary edition.
Series: A Norton critical edition; Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780393922349
Subjects: Fiction; History
Work titles: Los de abajo
Description: "Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel Los de Abajo, here newly translated, is a fictional account of the Mexican Revolution through which he lived. Exploring themes of camaraderie, inequality, love, and justice, The Underdogs' story of peasant Demetrio Macias and his group of fellow rebels is still relevant a century after its serialization in a Texan newspaper. Ilan Stavans and Anna More have freshly rendered the Spanish into English, which is here included with a number of contextual and critical materials by authors such as Octavio Paz, Waldo Frank, and Subcomandante Marcos to help students position the book in history and in today's world") --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199).
Table of contents: title: The text of The underdogs; title: Contexts: John Reed / From insurgent Mexico (1914); title: Anita Brenner / From the wind that swept Mexico (1943); title: Octavio Paz / From the labyrinth of solitude (1950); title: Subcomandante Marcos / Letter to Ernesto Zedillo (1994); title: Criticism: Waldo Frank / [A one-book man?]; title: Harriet de Onís / [Azuela's vision]; title: Luis Leal / Mariano Azuela; title: Ilan Stavans / " [The tools of destiny]; title: Clive Griffin / The structure of Los de abajo.