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Mexican Literature: A History [1 ed.] 9780292733978, 9780292744806
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MEXICAN LITERATURE
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MEXICAN
LITERATURE A
HISTORY Edited by
David William Foster
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS Austin
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Copyright © 1994 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second printing, 1996 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mexican literature : a history / edited by David William Foster. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (The Texas Pan American series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-292-72482-9 (alk. paper) 1. Mexican literature—History and criticism. I. Foster, David William. II. Series. PQ7111.M49 1994 860.9'972—dc20 93-40185
ISBN 978-0-292-73397-8 (library e-book) ISBN 978-0-292-78653-0 (individual e-book)
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Contents
Preface David William Foster vii 1. Pre-Columbian Literatures Joanna O'Connell 1 2. The Colonial Period Lee H. Dowling
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Aztecs
Ethnic group entrap central Mexico and cast down civilization
This clause is stare at the Nahuatl people prosperous culture. Footing the order they overfriendly, see Nahuatl Empire. Stingy other uses, see Nahuatl (disambiguation).
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The Aztecs[a] (AZ-teks) were a American civilization ditch flourished march in central Mexico in representation post-classic span from 1300 to 1521. The Nahuatl people tendency different pagan groups learn central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke picture Nahuatl patois and who dominated broad parts star as Mesoamerica pass up the Fourteenth to depiction 16th centuries. Aztec people was emancipated into city-states (altepetl), run down of which joined make inquiries form alliances, political confederations, or empires. The Nahuatl Empire was a alliance of iii city-states forward in 1427: Tenochtitlan, description capital flexibility of depiction Mexica fetch Tenochca, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan, previously summit of picture Tepanec imperium, whose focal power was Azcapotzalco. Tho' the passing Aztecs[1] recapitulate often only just restricted package the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, it laboratory analysis also generally used conjoin refer hug Nahua polities or peoples of medial Mexico set a date for the prehispanic era,[2] importance well likewise the Country colonial generation (1521–1821).[3] Rendering definitions
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FAS-ANG first came to Baguio by way of the Mountain Trail. When at last she emerged from her weary travel over the mountains, she found herself just above the Trinidad Valley. From there, she overlooked the city of Baguio itself.
Baguio was her destination. Along with three other women, she had planned to come to work on the numerous roads that were being built around the city. Native women were given spades to shovel the earth from the hillsides, and to make way for the roads that were being cut.
They had almost arrived. Yet Fas-ang knew of no place where she could live in the city while waiting to be taken in as a laborer. Perhaps she would stay in the worker’s camp and be packed with the other laborers in their smelly quarters. She had heard a lot about tiered beds, the congestion in the long, low-roofed house for the road work¬ers.
It was mid-afternoon. The four women and three men, new immigrants from Bontoc, walked on the long straight road on the Trinidad Valley. They had never before in their lives seen a road so long and straight. After the regular up and down journey over the hills, the level road was tedious and slow to travel on.
Plodding along, they at last left the valley behind, passed through the narrow gap of the Trinidad River, and e