The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Building Cultural Change After a Terrible Civil War
	References and Works Cited
Chapter 2: Legacy and Biography of Elena Poniatowska
	The Prolific Era
	In the New Millennium
Chapter 3: Diego I’m Alone, Diego I Am No Longer Alone: Frida Kahlo
Chapter 4: Maria Izquierdo, Backwards and Forwards
	One Circus Performance Left a Mark
	Mexico City in 1923
	This Is the Only One
	Mexico, Mexico
	More Mexican than Frida Kahlo
	The Juanita Cardboard Dolls
	The Marvelous Red Snapper
	República de Venezuela Street #34
	Like an Altar to Dolores
	Concoctions in the Clawfoot Tub
	The LEAR According to Juan Soriano
	The Curvature of Her Lips
	The Circus
	Tamayo, Tamayo, Tamayo
	People Who Love Deeply, When They Quarrel, Express So Much Passion in Hate That It Is Scary
	The Dark Red of Fire
	Antonin Artaud
	Café Paris
	The Peyote Greatly Unhinged Him
	You Will Not Paint Murals, María
	Not You María, You Cannot
	From Bohemian to Diplomat
	The Trees Lose Their Leaves
	Not Even the Marxists Were Happy
	Substituting the Olmec Head for That of Henri de Chatillon
	Hemiplejia
	She Never Painted with Her Left Hand, Assures Olivier Debroise
	The Circus Girl Dances Again
	Her Daily Life and Intimate World
Chapter 5: Nahui Olin, She Who Made Waves
	A Precocious Girl
	Throughout Her Life, the Same House
	A Little Soldier for Me
	The Return to Mexico
	Dr. Atl
	Atl Would Baptize His Lovers
	First with Two Legs
	When I Knew Her She Was Fairly Gone
	The Early Awakening of Nahui Olin’s Body
	Clay Pitcher Woman
	A Female Volcano
	The Merced Cloister
	There Is Some Reason in Madness
	Daring to Do Everything
	Captain Eugenio Agacino
	A Witch’s Talents
	Lola Álvarez Bravo
	If Only All Women Had a Tomás Zurián
	A Lover from Here to Eternity
	Hey There, Cheeky Buttocks
	The Ghost of the Post Office
	Not a Common Madwoman
	Loneliness Through Death
	Thirty Years After Her Death
Chapter 6: Pita Amor in the Arms of God
	Poetry in the Family
	I Am Divine
	Hush, Pitusa
	To Love Another, No, Not at All
	Pita dixit
	Pita Was Demonized Like Nahui Olin, Nellie Campobello, and Elena Garro
	A Legend Since 1953
	Scandal as a Way of Life
	Pita Amor, the Provocateur
	The Amor Siblings, United by Blood
	A Little Starched Percale
	My Jewels Are an Illusion
	Octavio Paz Is Nowhere Near Equal to Me
	Pita Amor’s Crimes
	A First Child at Age 38
	She Never Spoke Again of Her Personal Life
	Zabludovsky Is So Cute
	Pita-Style Christmas
	I Do Enough Just Being Cordial
Chapter 7: Elena Garro: The Rebellious Particle
	Living Between Suspicion and Distrust
	A Fervent Belief in Poetry
	Octavio Paz “Got There Ahead of Me”
	How Will I Pay the Bill?
	The Greatest Curse
	Love for the Field Workers
	One a Communist, the Other Monarchical
	Ahuatepec and the Field Workers
	A Female Juan Rulfo
	A Tiger’s Fierceness
	Competing with Octavio Paz
	Activities of the People
	La semana de colores
	Los recuerdos del porvenir
	A Gift for Each Hour
	A Hallucinating Play of Mirrors
	The Mexican Woman Writer Most Studied in the US
	Persecution Complex
	The Two Elenas
	You Arrive at Night
	The Fatal Year: 1968
	Cracked Feet on White Carpet
	Flight
	The Return
	The Best Writer
	The Mythic, Endless Treasure Chest
Chapter 8: Rosario from “My Dear Beloved Guerra” to the “Little Boy with Corn-Colored Hair”
	Because She Wrote About the “Indians”
	An Admirable Attitude
	Letters, Letters, Letters
	I Am Going to Tell You What I’m Like
	I Will Write Often Without Expecting Response
	Greenhouse Flower
	Travel to Spain
	The Great Revelation
	To Return, Return, Return
	Life in Common
	A Daily Tragedy
	The Mechanism of Pain
	Come What May, She Always Worked
	Humor Is Not Prevalent in Mexican Women Writers
	Gabriel the Tormentor
	Responsibility
	Rite of Initiation
	Divorce, an Act of Self-Esteem
	Meanwhile I Love Him
Chapter 9: Nellie Campobello, Who Was Not Granted Death
	Miss Carroll
	The Carroll Girls
	Vous etes une artiste
	Me!
	The Centaur of the North Was God
	Martín and Nellie Addressed Each Other Formally
	The Authors of the Revolution
	Cartucho: A Run of 3000 Copies
	The Terse Cruelty of Childhood
	Firing Squad, Bodies Fallen at the Wall
	The Girl Who Walks Hand in Hand with Death
	Green Sequins
	Childhood in the Revolution or the Child of the Revolution
	My Mother’s Hands
	The Writer Who Loves Her Mother Above All
	Mexico, Splendidly Creative
	A Contemporary of Extraordinary Women
	Disappearance and Death
	She Simply Evaporated
	Hugo Margáin, Her Lover
	Segunda del Rayo Street
	Reminiscent of Guadalupe Posada
	Little Gloria
	A Barbarous Death
	Twelve Years of Silence About Her Death
	Machete Pando
	Pancho Villa, Horrific Assassin
	Followers of Ulysses by Joyce and Those of Panchito Chapopote
	To Contemplate the World
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