Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho: the dislocated perception of the Mexican Revolution

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Published: Jun 28, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2011.52.25897
Keywords:
Mexican Revolution, Cartucho, Nellie Campobello

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Begoña Pulido Herráez

Abstract

The article examines the poetic narrative of the novel Cartucho. Accounts of the fighting in northern Mexico, by the Durango writer Nellie Campobello. Among other things it explores how the narrative voice, fluctuating between a child’s voice and one that we can place as belonging to one adult. We conclude that the poetry reflects the form of an album of photographs of anonymous people of the Mexican Revolution, the images focus on particular moments of death.

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Pulido Herráez, B. (2011). Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho: the dislocated perception of the Mexican Revolution. Latinoamérica. Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (52), 31–51. https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2011.52.25897
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No. 52: 2011/1
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Dirscursos y Conflictos

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