An early scene in Rosario Castellanos’ semi-autobiographical novel Balún Canán (1957), set in the late 1930s in Chiapas, Mexico, evokes a cozy scene of provincial childhood: a group of ladina or European-identified schoolgirls, the daughters of local landowners, sip posol, an indigenous [...]
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In Juan Rulfo’s pathbreaking 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, the eponymous great landowner states to his lawyers in the shadow of the Mexican revolution: “You lawyers have that advantage: you can take your patrimony everywhere, so long as you don’t get your face smashed in.” A law degree, the [...]
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Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. “One of the major sources of articulation and legitimation of free market expansion, as explored in [...]
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