Book contents
- Death in Old Mexico
- Death in Old Mexico
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Murder
- Part II Context
- Part III Justice
- Part IV Characters
- Part V Consequences
- Part VI Interpretations
- Part VII Texts
- 19 The Anonymous Account
- 20 The Dongo Massacre in Texts
- 21 Two Dongo Novels
- Conclusion Death in Old Mexico
- Bibliography
- Index
21 - Two Dongo Novels
from Part VII - Texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Death in Old Mexico
- Death in Old Mexico
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Murder
- Part II Context
- Part III Justice
- Part IV Characters
- Part V Consequences
- Part VI Interpretations
- Part VII Texts
- 19 The Anonymous Account
- 20 The Dongo Massacre in Texts
- 21 Two Dongo Novels
- Conclusion Death in Old Mexico
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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 MexicoThe 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation, pp. 225 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023