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Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction by Elena Poniatowska
  • Cartucho (translated by Doris Meyer)
    • Translator’s Note
    • I. Men of the North
    • II. The Executed
    • III. Under Fire
  • My Mother’s Hands (translated by Irene Matthews)
    • Translator’s Note
    • She Was....
    • Once I Sought Her, Far Away....
    • Reader, Fill Your Heart with My Respect
    • You and He
    • Her Love
    • Our Love
    • Her Skirt
    • Her God
    • The Men Left Their Mutilated Bodies Awaiting the Succor of These Simple Flowers
    • The Men of the Troop
    • The Dumb One
    • A Villa Man Like So Many Others
    • She and Her Machine
    • Jacinto’s Deal
    • Plaza of the Lilacs
    • When We Came to a Capital City
    • A Letter for You

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    A Paperback / softback by Nellie Campobello, Doris Meyer, Irene Matthews

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/1988
      ISBN13: 9780292711112, 978-0292711112
      ISBN10: 0292711115

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction by Elena Poniatowska
      • Cartucho (translated by Doris Meyer)
        • Translator’s Note
        • I. Men of the North
        • II. The Executed
        • III. Under Fire
      • My Mother’s Hands (translated by Irene Matthews)
        • Translator’s Note
        • She Was....
        • Once I Sought Her, Far Away....
        • Reader, Fill Your Heart with My Respect
        • You and He
        • Her Love
        • Our Love
        • Her Skirt
        • Her God
        • The Men Left Their Mutilated Bodies Awaiting the Succor of These Simple Flowers
        • The Men of the Troop
        • The Dumb One
        • A Villa Man Like So Many Others
        • She and Her Machine
        • Jacinto’s Deal
        • Plaza of the Lilacs
        • When We Came to a Capital City
        • A Letter for You

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