| Vida Y Hechos del Famoso Caballero Don Catrín de la Fachenda: An MLA Text Edition Critical Edition Contributor(s): Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín (Author), Ochoa, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1603295348 ISBN-13: 9781603295345 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American |
| Dewey: 863.5 |
| LCCN: 2021017747 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of the self considered more extrinsic, such as appearance and social disguise. While not directly mentioning the Mexican wars of independence, Don Catrín offers a vivid representation of the political and social frictions that burst into violence around 1810 and gave birth to the independent countries of Latin America. |