Abstract

AVECHUCO CABRERA, Daniel. The Revolution as narrated from the borders: anomic representations of violence in Cartucho, by Nellie Campobello. Lit. mex [online]. 2017, vol.28, n.1, pp.69-98. ISSN 2448-8216.

Nellie Campobello published Cartucho, in 1931, when the Maximato was in its apogee. This fact is not merely circumstantial since one of the objectives of her work was to cleanse the name of Pancho Villa, highly reviled by the posrevolutionary governments. As a strategy of her redeeming work, Campobello literally reproduces the schemes of orality and adopts a regionalist approach toward the Revolution. This pair of decisions contributes to the portrayal of an unusual image of the armed conflict and the popular armies, particularly concerning the field of violence. The purpose of this article is to analyze the way in which revolutionary violence, according to Cartucho, diverges in highest degree from the canonic representations of the period.

Keywords : violence; Mexican Revolution; regionalism; orality; working classes.

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