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Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution

by Elena Poniatowska
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781933693040
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cinco Puntos Press
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 93
  • Original Price: INR 850.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 272 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, Subjects & Themes / Regional, and Photoessays & Documentaries


The photographs of Las Soldaderas and Elena Poniatowska's remarkable commentary rescue the women of the Mexican Revolution from the dust and oblivion of history. These are the Adelitas and Valentinas celebrated in famous corridos mexicanos, but whose destiny was much more profound and tragic than the idealistic words of ballads. The photographs remind Poniatowska of the trail of women warriors that begins with the Spanish conquest and continues to Mexico's violent revolution. These women are valiant, furious, loyal, maternal, and hardworking; they wear a mask that is part immaculate virgin, part mother and wife, and part savage warrior; and they are joined together in the cruel hymn of blood and death from which they built their own history of the Revolution.


The photographs are culled from the vast Casasola Collection in the Fototeca Nacional of the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.

Poniatowska, Elena: - Elena Poniatowska is writer, renowned journalist, and professor. Her journalism and writing explore and grapple with events; in addition, she is a biographer and translator, and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emeritus Fellowship from Mexico's National Council of Culture and Arts.

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