Abstract

VANDEN BERGHE, Kristine. Happiness during the revolution and sadness in times of peace: The game in Cartucho and Las manos de mamá by Nellie Campobello. Lit. mex [online]. 2010, vol.21, n.2, pp.151-170. ISSN 2448-8216.

In Cartucho (1931), Nellie Campobello represents the Mexican Revolution as if it were a game, in the sense that Johan Huizinga gives to the term in Homo Ludens (1938). She puts forward the beauty of war, the joy of the revolutionaries and shows how they are converted in children playing on their horses. In Las manos de mamá (1937), the constituting ingredients of ludic play move from the revolutionaries to the mother. Furthermore, in postrevolutionary times the spirit of the game is missing. The differences between both texts helps one to understand how their critical reception was considerably divergent.

Keywords : Nellie Campobello; Cartucho; Las manos de mamá; game; Homo Ludens; Mexican Revolution; stereotypes.

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