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Lawrence, D. H. - Sheila Contreras (essay date 1993-1994)
Sheila Contreras (essay date 1993-1994)
SOURCE: Contreras. Sheila. “‘These Were Just Natives to Her’: Chilchui Indians and ‘The Woman Who Rode Away’.” D. H. Lawrence Review 25, nos. 1-3 (1993-1994): 91-103.
[In the following essay, Contreras assesses the significance of indigenous culture within the broader tradition of modern primitivism in “The Woman Who Rode Away.”]
D. H. Lawrence's travels to Mexico between 1923 and 1925 occurred during a period of intense U.S. and British interest in the social and political events of that country. “The Woman Who Rode Away” is a tale that combines many of Lawrence's observations of “a frightening country, the silent, fatal-seeming mountain slopes, the occasional distant, suspicious, elusive natives among the trees …” (“TWWRA” [“The Woman Who Rode Away”] 551). Biographers1 and critics have chronicled Lawrence's Mexican journeys, noting his unabashed...
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