The Magic Lantern : Having a Ball and Christmas Eve Paperback / softback
by Jose Tomas de Cuellar
Edited by Margo (Teacher of Literature, Teacher of Literature, University of New Mexico) Glantz
Part of the Library of Latin America series
Paperback / softback
Description
José Tomas de Cuéllar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature.
Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary manners were first published.
The stories are a sensitive reflection of the effects of modernization brought by an authoritarian regime dedicated to order and progress. Christmas Eve describes a volatile middle class in which people pursue pleasure and entertainment without regard to morality.
Having a Ball depicts women and their dedication to fashion.
It is through them that Cuellar examines a society susceptible to foreign values, the importation of which radically altered the face of Mexico and its traditional customs.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:204 pages, 2 halftones, numerous line illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:04/01/2001
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- ISBN:9780195115031
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:204 pages, 2 halftones, numerous line illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:04/01/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195115031
