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The underdogs : a new translation, contexts, criticism /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Azuela, Mariano, 1873-1952
Other Authors: Stavans, Ilan (Editor, Translator), More, Anna Herron (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Fiction.
Azuela, Mariano, > 1873-1952. > Los de abajo. > English.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Table of Contents:
  • The text of The underdogs
  • Contexts: John Reed / From insurgent Mexico
  • Anita Brenner / From the wind that swept Mexico
  • Octavio Paz / From the labyrinth of solitude
  • Subcomandante Marcos / Letter to Ernesto Zedillo
  • Criticism: Waldo Frank / [A one-book man?]
  • Harriet de Onís / "[Azuela's vision]
  • Luis Leal / Mariano Azuela
  • Ilán Stavans / " [The tools of destiny]
  • Clive Griffin / The structure of Los de abajo.