Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrín de la Fachenda

An MLA Translation

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Bonnie Loder (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2021
Modern Language Association of America (Verlag)
978-1-60329-537-6 (ISBN)

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Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of the self considered more extrinsic, such as appearance and social disguise. While not directly mentioning the Mexican wars of independence, Don Catrín offers a vivid representation of the political and social frictions that burst into violence around 1810 and gave birth to the independent countries of Latin America.

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Texts and Translations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 213 mm
Gewicht	235 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-60329-537-2 / 1603295372
ISBN-13	978-1-60329-537-6 / 9781603295376
Zustand	Neuware