Here’s to You, Jesusa! (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Elena Poniatowska
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early to mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Mexico
- Principal Characters: Jesusa Palancares, Felipe Palancares, Emiliano Palancares, Captain Pedro Aguilar, General Jesús Carranza, General Emiliano Zapata, Perico
- Genres: Long fiction, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Revolutions, Poverty or poor people, Native Americans or American Indians, Violence, Women, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Soldiers, Latin America or Latin Americans
- Locales: Mexico
The author’s introduction to this English translation of her novel describes her collaboration and friendship with Josefina Bórquez who, after her teenage years as a soldadera, or woman soldier in the Mexican Revolution, lived a life of poverty and oppression in the tenements of Mexico City. Elena Poniatowska first met Josefina, to whom she gives the fictional name of Jesusa, in 1964, and in a series of interviews learned the story of her life. In this novel the author integrates the stories told to her by Jesusa with imaginary events of her own invention. This combined form...
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