Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1843–1893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received one of the finest educations available in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico and rose to the highest political and cultural echelons of Mexico. One of the most famous men of his age (along with the Indian president, Benito Juárez, who appears in Zarco), Altamirano was a battle-tested soldier, a fiery political militant, and the mentor of the generation of writers who came of age at the turn of the century. Zarco tells the story of an honorable and courageous Indian blacksmith who falls in love with a haughty village girl, only to have her elope with the cold-blooded bandit, “Zarco Blue Eyes.” Based on major and minor real-life historical characters and incidents, the novel’s romantic narrative is accompanied by scenes of stark violence and vigilantism, as private citizens take the law into their hands to pursue and exterminate roaming bands of criminals that are terrorizing rural Mexico. Full of color, drama, and historical detail, Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit is essential reading for readers interested in Mexican history, banditry, and the Indian question.
"Nineteenth-century Mexico comes alive in this elegantly crafted melodrama, a bridge to understanding the period's traditional gender roles, its stark moral divides, and, particularly, its harsh racial hierarchies. Ignacio Altamirano was one of several Latin American novelists who escaped the ideological grip of scientific racism long before the region’s essayists and scientists could do so. Novelists did not have to disprove prevailing racist notions in order to escape them in fiction. They could create characters who defied racial stereotypes, appealing to their readers to recognize the truth of their depictions despite the pronouncements of prestigious European white supremacists. Not to be missed!"—John Charles Chasteen, Patterson distinguished professor of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

El Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (Helen Lane Editions)

Literature & Fiction

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

United States

Lumen Books

Altamirano, presenta en su libro a dos figuras contrapuestas: un militar liberal, ateo, perteneciente a las fuerzas políticas triunfantes, y a un cura católico español, que se muestra un poco temeroso por la hostilidad con que suponía iba a ser tratado por el capitán anticlerical. El encuentro de los dos hombres se da en una aldea perdida en plena montaña, cuando uno va de camino hacia su curato y el otro más allá, hacia la ciudad que es su punto de destino, les hace cambiar unas cuantas palabras como compañeros de viaje. Transcurren por esos días las fiestas navideñas, y al llegar al pueblo del cura, éste le ofrece hospedaje al capitán, que lo acepta agradecido.

Navidad en Las Montañas

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Navidad en Las Monta�as

Zarco

Zarco (Spanish Edition)

Siglo XXI Editores Mexico

Navidad en las Montañas

EDICIONES LEYENDA S.A.

La novela logra estudios psicologicos y observaciones agudas del contexto social y politico de la segund amitad del siglo XIX mexicano. Es una de las obras mas valiosas de toda la genreacion de esa epoca, tanto de Mexico como de America Latina.

El Zarco (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Lectorum

ZARCO (EPOCA) by ALTAMIRANO IGNACIO

Epoca

La relacion de circunstancias politicas en las que altamirano tuvo participacion directa, dan el ambiente general de las obras. En Clemencia, por ejemplo, se refiere a la intervencion francesa; Estabamos a fines del año de 1863, año desgraciado en que, como ustedes recordaran, ocupo el ejercito frances a Mexico ...El Zarco los acontecimientos ocurren en 1861, "" tiempo calamitoso "" en que los bandidos de la tierra caliente asolaban los pueblos al favor de la guerra civil.

El Zarco. Navidad en las montanas (Spanish Edition)

Porrúa.

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