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21 - Two Dongo Novels

from Part VII - Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2023

Nicole von Germeten
Affiliation:
Oregon State University
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Within a span of less than five years, Mexican presses published two historical novels based on the Dongo massacre and its rapid resolution by the viceregal judiciary. The first of these was José de Cuéllar’s 1869 El Pecado del Siglo: Novela Histórica, Época de Revillagigedo, published by the Tipográfica del Colegio Polimático in San Luis Potosí. Only four years later, the first volume of a book called Los Asesinos de Dongo: Novela Histórica appeared in Mexico City, written by Manuel Filomeno Rodríguez. In 1876, the same publisher, Barbedillo and Company, published volume two of Los Asesinos de Dongo. Both authors chose to write these historical novels to take part in an important nationalist and didactic literary trend in Mexico’s Restored Republic. Influenced by the politician, intellectual, journalist and writer Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, novelists like Rodríguez and Cuéllar felt inspired to help Mexicans understand their own history through fictional characters.

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Death in Old Mexico
The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation
, pp. 225 - 243
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Two Dongo Novels
  • Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University
  • Book: Death in Old Mexico
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009261531.023
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  • Two Dongo Novels
  • Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University
  • Book: Death in Old Mexico
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  • Two Dongo Novels
  • Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University
  • Book: Death in Old Mexico
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009261531.023
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