Woods Mexican Autobiografy

Mexican Autobiography: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography
Author(s): Richard D. Woods

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750 HISPANIA 77 DECEMBER1994
Mexican Autobiography: An Essay and Annotated

Bibliography
RichardD. Woods
TrinityUniversity
Abstract: The introductoryessay traces tendencies in Mexican autobiographyand outlines a variety of
subgenres,focusingmainlyon lifewritingssince 1980.The annotatedbibliographycomplementsthe author's
previousbibliographyof the genre up to 1980,since continuumsandcontrastsof the two largeperiods,14921979 and 1980-1993,illuminatethe characteristicsof this neglected genre. The bibliographyof 347 entries
denotes a growingfield of endeavorin Mexicanwritingthat is in need of criticalattentionand recognition.
Key Words: autobiographicalnovel, autobiographyproper,bibliography,diaries,journals,letters,memoirs,
MexicanAmericans,Mexico,oralautobiography,testimony,women'swriting
exists.It
autobiography
Mexicanseem
but the fact
In spite of the large numberof autobiogstrange,

raphiesnoted,the genre has receivedlittle
may
that the substantial body of recognitionfromMexicanscholarsandspolifewritingsin that countryhas simply not radic attention in the U.S. An exception,
receivedattentionmakessuch a declaration Sylvia Molloy's At Face Value.-Autobionecessary.Whilethe Mexicannovel, short graphical Writing in Spanish America
story,drama,poetryandessay findan easy (1991),signalsthe scholarlyworldto some
forum, this is not true for autobiography. classicalexamples,but since the book covWithoutbroachingallthe possible reasons ers a wide geographicalarea,the focus on
for the neglect, one might venture to say Mexicois understandably
limitedto its best
thatthe disregardingof a formso pervasive known autobiographer,Jose Vasconcelos.
in the Westernworldmaybe a distinguish- Anotherexceptionis ElzbietaSklodowska's
ing feature of the HispanicWorld. In the 1992study,Testimonioshispanoamericanos,
majorculturesof the Westernworld,auto- evidentlypromptedby autobiographyin a
biographyis easily recoverable,and bibli- more popularform:Si mepermitenhablar
ographieson this genre exist forthe United (1978), , RibogertaMenchu(1984) andHe
States, England,France,and Germany.
agotadomi vida en la miua (1992),all teshave
enhanced
the
Electronicsearches
tifyto collaborationbetweenforeignanthroto
uncover
The
347
examples.
pologistandnativesubject.The academyis
capability
entries which form this bibliographycon- also becomingalertto Mexicanautobiogratinue the effortbegan in my 1988Mexican phy as evidenced by Magdalena Maiz's
AnnotatedBibliography. 1992Ph. D. dissertationfromArizonaState
Autobiography.-An
The present bibliographyincludes three University, "(Entre)textos: Perfil de la
types of autobiographies: (1) those pub- autobiografiamodernamexicana."
More has been done on U.S. Hispanics,
lished since 1988 and unavailablefor my
in
initial efforts; (2) those published any giventhe impetusfromRichardRodriguez's
period but overlooked because of lack of HungerofMemory(1982).MyHzitory,Not
access to majorcollections;(3) and finally, Yours.TheFormationofMexicanAmerican
those publishedsince 1980andnotedin the Autobiography
(1993)by GenaroM. Padilla
previous bibliographyof 1988. Fifteen en- mentionsseveralexamplesthattie the U.S.
tries are repeatedhere to give coherenceto to Mexico, at least in lifewriting.Earlier,
this genre in the post 1980years.
JulianOlivares'sthematicissue "U.S.His-
MEXICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: AN ESSAY AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 751
panic Autobiography"in AmericasReview and multiplecollectionsof letters are virtu(1988)collectedseven articleson lifewriting ally ignored.
in the U.S.
Foreignscholarswhetherof historyor of
Not withstandingthe aboveventures,the literature, have a better record of noting
contention that Mexican autobiography Mexicanlifewritingthando natives.Eladio
suffers neglect is easily documentedin an Cortes's (DictionaryofMexicanLiterature
examinationof reference books, antholo- (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992)
gies, andjournals.Both foreign and native mentions autobiography more than any
referencebooks, bibliographies,dictionar- otherreferencebook of its kindon Mexico.
ies/encyclopedias, and literaryhistories, Furthermore,a perusal of two of the best
accord some recognition to the various known LatinAmericanreferencebooks in
genres. Bibliographies,beginning in 1926 the U.S. indicates a growing interest in
and ending in 1992 register few examples Mexican and LatinAmericanfrom 1988to
of lifestories. One curiosity is the lack of 1993.Both the HispanuicAmerican
Periodion
what
constitutes
a
lacals
and
Index
The Handbook of Latin
agreement
proper
bel forautobiography:
relatos,autobiograffa, AmericanStudiesregistera few articlesand
crdnicas, viajes, narraciones, cartas, and book reviews on the topic.Priorto 1988no
memoriasall may categorize lifewritings. such interest is manifest in these two inSuggestingthe fluidityof labels in Mexican dexes of LatinAmericanstudies.
A thirdtype of referencebook, the literautobiography,these seven terms become
more confusingin classifyingnovels of the ary history, may either mention autobiogRevolution. Historical bibliographies, in raphy or imply non-existenceor unimporcontrast to those of literature, validate tance by omission. Books of this sort are
lifewritingas valuable for historians sub- also problematicin labelingthe novelof the
stantiatinga periodthroughautobiographi- MexicanRevolution.In examiningthirteen
cal writings.Three bibliographiesby Mexi- books of this type for the mentionor omiscan historiansrecordthe presence of auto- sion of lifewriting,it appearsthat Mexican
biographyin surveysfor which there is no literaryscholars approachingthe novel of
correspondingeffortamongliteraryschol- the Revolution,while vacillatingbetween
ars:RobertoRamos'sthree-volumeBiblio- fiction and non-fiction,recognize novels,
graffa de la RevolucidnMiexicana(Mexico: poetry,shortstories,anddrama,clearly,but
InstitutoNacionalde EstudiosHistoricosde not autobiography.
la Revoluci6nMexicana,1959-1960), Luis
A less literatepopulaceis exposed to a
de
la
historia contem- typeof publicationoftenused in high school
Gonzalez, Fuentes
de
vols.
Mexico: El and college-the anthology.By theirinclupordnea
Mdxico (3
de
and
Veinticinco sions (andexclusions) anthologistsalert a
Colegio Mexico, 1961),
de
h
investigacidn istdrica en Mdxico new readingpublicto the canonicalworks
a-os
withinnationalliterature.An examinationof
(M1xico:El Colegio de Mexico, 1966).
Three majorreferencebooks published sixteen anthologiesin pursuitof autobiogin Mexico on Mexicanwritinggive little at- raphy revealed the followingdata:five totention to autobiography:Diccionario de tally excludedthe genre;fourcommenton
escritores mexicanos (Mexico: UNAM, the presence of autobiographybut do not
1967), Diccionario Porrzia.Historia, bio- supplement their comments with selec(Mexico: Edi- tions;the thirdcategoryboth mentionsaugrafia y geografia de MNdxico
torial Porrfia, 1986) and Enciclopedia de tobiography and includes selections and
Mcdxico(Mexico: Secretaria de Educaci6n
Piiblica, 1987-1988). Lifewriting may be
mentioned, but is rarely emphasized as significant in the corpus of authors' work. For
example, in these reference works Alfonso
Reyes's three identifiable autobiographies
has seven anthologists who show little unanimity of choice. Fr. Mier, Cortes, Diaz del
Castillo, Sor Juana In~s de la Cruz, Jose
Guridi y Alcocer and Justo Sierra compete
for autobiographical space. Only Antonio
Castro Leal in his La novela dela Revolucidu
mexicana(Mexico:Aguilar,1963)considered
MartinLuisGuzman,NellieCampobello,
Jose
RubenRomero,FranciscoUrquizoandJose
Vasconcelosas havingwrittennovels of an
autobiographicalcharacter.The focused
genre here is again slighted for the more
traditionalforms of the novel, short story,
poem, or essay.
Journalscan be anothermediumfor autobiography.A perusal of 35 journalspublished between 1929-1983rendereda total
of 95 reviewsof autobiography.Perhapsthe
treatmentof this genre is endemicto Mexican reviewing.Reviewersroutinelygive a
summary of contents without evaluation,
descriptionwithoutanalysis,little attempt
to graspthe purposeof the autobiographer,
and no recognition of autobiographyas a
genre.
Reference books, anthologies, literary
journals,andreviewsmediatebetweenwriters and their public.Althoughthey recognize othergenres, their attentionto autobiographyis at best tentativeor dilatory.Perhaps this is the greatest problemof Mexican autobiography-even with over 679
examples,the field has never achievedthe
statusof a genre. Consequently,the trajectoryfor autobiographyevidences mislabeling, cursorytreatmentand superficialcritics.
Yet Mexicans write autobiographies.
The corpus of lifewritingbefore and after
1980 manifests continuums and changes.
Memoiris stillthe favoriteformof the Mexicans with disregard of autobiography
proper. The 19th century is a lacuna for
lifewritingandinvitesscholarlyresearchto
find the autobiographiesthat must surely
exist. An overviewof lifewritingby decades
generates encouraging results. Each tenyearperiodis incrementalin the numberof
examples of lifewriting.For example, 1910
to 1919 exhibits ten examples; a later decade, 1980-1989 suggests 147. Be it increasedliteracyor the (re) discoveryof this
universalform,lifewritingis proliferating.
Not allis positive,foreven withthe large
numbersof writingssince the 1980s,Mexican autobiographyhas never equalledthe
recordof the 1930swhichmaybe calledthe
golden age of Mexicanautobiography.For

withina space of elevenyears, 1928to 1938,
twelve masterpiecesreachedthe publicincluding MartinLuis Guzmin'sEl dgzila y
la serpienteand Las memoriasde Pancho
Villa,fourworksbyJose Vasconcelos,with
threebyJose
JisescHolloas the outstanding,
RubenRomero,two by Nellie Campobello
andSalvadorNovo'sContinente
vaclo.Thus
Mexicans before and afterthe 1930s have
neverduplicatedthe lifewritingsof this one
prodigiousdecade.
Foran inexplicablereason,Mexicansdo
not cultivateor at least do not publishdiaries. Several autobiographiescarrythe label "diary,"but the word carelessly used
indicatesmore a journalor a memoir.The
intimatecommunicationwith the self finds
little favor.Regardlessof form,no one profession dominatesthe writingof autobiographieseven though politicians/diplomats
represent themselves numerically more
than other groups. This is pervasiveeven
through the 1990s. One further constant
requires little analysis.The best autobiographiescome fromthe professionalwriters
who combine life with prose style, a task
difficultfor the uninitiatedor the amateur
writer. Yet of more interest and perhaps
importis the evolvementof Mexicanautobiographysince 1980.
A significantchange in the last 15 years
is the large number of lifewritings by
women. In fact, as manywomen have written autobiographiesbetween1980and 1994
as they wrote in the entire period before
then, 1492-1979.Doubtlesslythis productivitycorrespondsto an emphasis on feminist writings.Andyet in lookingat the complete span of time for Mexico, it can be
safely said that women's autobiography
belongs to the 20th century. Sor Juana's
admonitionthat women should be silent
obviouslyappliedto autobiographyas well
as to church doctrine.
More women write, yet few Mexican
women have achievedfamein the arts outside of literature.Onlythree can be noted
under the time period under focus: Inds
Amor,an art collector;RosauraRevueltas,
an actress who writes abouther illustrious
family;and LydiaMendoza, singer of the

1930s and 1940s. By contrast, over eight
males in the arts have expressed themselves in autobiographysince 1980.
Whatis true of other genres is also true
for autobiography.Men write more than
women or at least publishmore. Evenwith
the increase in women's autobiographies,
men stillcomposealmostsix times as many
autobiographies.
Oral autobiography,deserving a separatespace,is morecharacteristicof women
than of men. The interestingaspect of this
genre is the master-subjectrelationshipor
the articulateanthropologistor journalist
findinga likely subjectandthen promoting
dialog.The result is an oral autobiography
or a testimony.Sufficeto say that women,
perhapsbecauseof theircondition,stillparticipatein this moreas subjectsthando men
at least in Mexico. Anotherinterestingaspect is the numberof women who become
the provocateursin this symbioticrelationship. Ruth Behar's Translated Women
(1993) epitomizes the testimony. The
trainedforeigneror whateveroutsider enters and finds an Indiansubject.However,
Beharhas learnedfromothers for she produces a convincing document, and more
importantly,she is cognizant of the problems of the genre.
Women's subjugation is reflected in
some of the entries.Forthe 1980sindicates
a specialtype of autobiographypeculiarto
women-the inadvertentautobiographyor
life writingthat is called into existence because of a husband, lover or father. A
woman has importance only in her relationship to males. Note the memoirs of
MargaritaValladares de Orozco (wife of
Clemente Orozco), Angelica Arenal, the
widowof Siqueiros,andEldaPeralta,widow
of the writerLuis Spota.The irony here is
that each one has value as lifewriterwithout the presence of the better-known
spouse. Conversely no male lifewritings
owe their existence to the presence of a
woman.Two Chicanas,GloriaAnzaldtiaand
CherrieMoraga,whose writingsevidence
the unitybetween the U.S. and Mexico, attackmorethe Latinpatriarchalsystemthan
do any of the Mexican women who write

autobiographies.
The most popularformof memoiris the
political memoir. Since women have not
figured in Mexican politics, they do not
have the necessity of defending their regimes or administrations. Another field
where women's writing should be more
prevalentis the letter.Women,whenunable
to publish, surely could use the epistolary
form as a venue for content and emotions.
Inthe24collectionsofletterslisted,onlythree
belong to women (Aveleyra-Sadowska,
Brimmerand Rivas Mercado). The other
cases inevitably mean an exchange between significant individuals such as
Alfonso Reyes and Victoria Ocampo and
GabrielaMistral, Argentine and Chilean
respectively.
The revitalizedpast appearsat least for
women in the 1980s.Two works signalthe
discoveryof the past which potentiallycan
yield morelifewritingsby women.Kathleen
Ann Meyers's Becominga Nun in Seventeenth Century Mexico (1986) and Las
memorias of Concepcidn Lombardo de
(1980) suggest the potential of
Miramdo'n
for
searching the unpublishedmanuscript.
Though women as yet have establishedno
tradition of writing autobiographies,the
oraltestimonyhas its pedigree.
In the 16th century Fr. Bernardo de
Sahag6in(1500?-1590)initiatedthe anthropologicaldocumentby interviewingIndians
to inventoryand record their culture. Although the process skipped three centuries, it emerged again in the twentieth.
Mexico to date has over fortyexamples of
oraltestimony,paradoxicallythe writingof
a life by someone other than the subject.
Foreignersandnativesarmedwithtape recorders extractthe life of a pliablesubject,
edit it accordingto standardsfor an established audience,and publishand marketit
abroad.Probablythe subjecthas littleinput.
The traditionis still flourishingin Mexico,
with 23 recorded since 1980. Women are
favorite participantsin this collaboration
eitheras subjectsor authors.Subjects,they
represent opposite classes-celebrity or
peasant. Four focus on women famous
through family or careers-Inds Amor,

EmmaGodoy,AmparoMontes and Emilia
Cardenas.On the contrary,seven peasant
women, often in the 1960 style of Oscar
Lewis, surrendertheir lives frequentlyto
outsiders.
There has been since the 1980s a deteriorationin qualitycomparedto previous
decades,whichrenderedseveralclassics in
this hybrid genre such as Martin Luis
Guzmin'sMemoriasdePanchoVilla(1938),
followed in 1952 by Ricardo Pozo's Juan
Pirezjolote(1952),andElenaPoniatowska's
Hasta no vertejestis mio (1969). Only the
publication of Calixta Guiteras Holmes's
PerilsoftheSoul (1961)hadcalledintoquestion the techniques employedto elicit confessions from (un)willingparticipants.Her
work,a hallmarkin the requiredmethodology, is largely ignored today, yet subsequent years indicateno recognitionof her
efforts.The many examples of oral autobiographyare notoriousin theirlackof attention both to technique and to sharingwith
the reader the interferences that call the
book into existence. The words "interviews," "conversations,""taperecorder,"
and "writing/conversation" populate
skimpy introductions. However, only in
1993 with the publicationof Ruth Behar's
TranslatedWoman.:
CrossingtheBorderwith
is
Esperanza'Story there an effort even to
emulate GuiterrasHolmes'sexhaustiveattempts to alert readers that they may be
readinga spuriousdocument.Though foreignersmaycome in andproducesymbiotic
life-writingsthat might better be reserved
for natives,one Mexicaneffort,the autobiography commissioned by an editorial
house, has been fruitfulin the propagation
of autobiography.
Distantlyrelatedto oralautobiographyis
a type of commissioned lifewriting evi-
pages, certaincriteriaemerge for selection

of subjectsandwriting:Bornbetween 1927
and 1957,andtenuouslyestablished,these
authorshave achieved more nationalthan
international fame. The youngest is
Alejandro Sandoval Avila; the oldest,
RafaelGaona.In contradiction,Emmanuel
CarballoandVicenteLefierofinda place in
traditionalreferencebooks.Almostwithout
exceptionall, noted for novels or short stories, creditthemselves in prose ratherthan
in poetry. Seven women receive attention,
indicating the influence of the feminist
movement.No formulabetrays a procrustean cast to the autobiographiesbut almost
allmentionregionalistroots,familypersonalitiesandaboveallformaleducation,reading habitsandattemptsatwriting.The commissioned autobiographyaids women;yet
maybe a greater potentialwill be the past
when it surrenderstroves of letters.
Collectionsof letters overwhelmin the
English-speakingworld.Not so in the Hispanic if Mexico sets an example. A loose
count at this moment, because no bibliography is ever complete, suggests that
Mexico has under fifty such collections.
Nineteen of these priorto 1980and the remaining25 after.Almosthalf of the recent
ones incorporatethe correspondenceof the
prolificAlfonsoReyes.His writingenergies
never flagged and since his death in 1959,
scholars like James Willis Robb,emeritus
of The GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,continue to find his epistolaryexchanges. The
most complete collection, Epistolario
1906-1946/PedroHenriquezUrefia
intimno,
y AlfonsoReyes (1981)will probablynever
be equaled in volume, in years covered or
in expression of self. A noting of Reyes's
majorcorrespondentssuggests the scope
of this Mexican and international contacts:Jorge Mafiach,Eugenio Florit,Juan
Marinello,MartinLuis Guzmin, Gabriela
denced in Mexico since 1980. Ediciones

Corunda has sponsored 27 autobiographies Mistral, Julio Torri, Manuel Toussaint,
all with the signaling title, De cuerpo entero. Victoria Ocampo, and Antonio Castro Leal.
The idea, pioneered by Empresas Editorial Earlier collections included Jose Maria
which generated six autobiographies of Chac6n, Cuban intellectual,Valery Larbaud,
male writers in the 1960s, evidences much French novelist, and Jose Vasconcelos,
more success today. From examination of thinker/politician.
these brief documents, each averaging sixty
Only two Mexican women to date have
published collections of letters-Gaby

Brimmer and Antonieta Rivas Mercado.
Hopefullyregardfor women and the epistolary form will lead to the discovery and
publication of as more collections in the
same way as the criticGuillermoSheridan
found,editedandpublishedthe correspondence of Ram6nL6pezVelardein 1991.The
genre mayfurtherincreaseas Mexicanpoliticians continue to defend themselves
through memoirs or published letters, as
GustavoMaderoandNarcissoBassolshave
done.
The only change between letters before
and after1980is the increasein theirpublication, which augurs well for these documents so oftenindispensableforliteraryor
personalityanalysis.To risk a generalization,probablythe best collectionsbelongto
the writers of literature, such as Reyes,
orJose Revueltas.Yetthe most
Villaurrutia,
and
interesting versatilesingle collectionto
dateforthe scope andvarietyof correspondents is Marte R. G6mez's Vidapolitica
contempordnea(1978),whose index reads
like a "who'swho"in nationalculturein the
twentiethcentury.
One type of autobiography,more common since the 1980s,links Mexicowith the
United States-lifewritings of Mexican
Americans. They have achieved profile
within the genre of lifewriting;however,
only a few of these autobiographiescan be
duallylabelledboth MexicanandAmerican
with easilyidentifiablecriteriaas in dealing
witha MexicanAmericanwho startshis life
in Mexico but continuesit in the U.S. (i.e.,
Ricardo Montalbain and Federico
or Hispanicslike
Rondstadt);a Californiano
two New Mexicans, Rafael Chac6n and
Alfonso Griego,whose lives span the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, enabling
them to live politicallyundertwo nationalities as the case of twoNew Mexicans,Rafael
Chac6nand Alfonso Griego;or a Mexican
autobiographies.Some of this type of autobiographynaturallyexistedbefore1980and

perhapsis epitomizedin ErnestoGalarza's
Barrio Boy (1971), but the flourishing of
Chicanoautobiographywithin the decade
of the 1980spredictsthatmoreof these linking types of lifewritingwillbe forthcoming.
Giventhe fluidityof the borderand the facility of movement,more of these connections relatingto the large corpusof American autobiographyandsimultaneouslywith
Mexican,will be noticeable.
The entries of the bibliographyare concise to maximize informationin a limited
space. Eachentrygives the earliestversion
for proper chronology. Author dates promote locationby time context.The various
forms of autobiography are labeled by
subgenres: memoirs, autobiography
proper, journal, diary, letters, interview,
and testimonyor a hybridform.The following succinct definitions of each of these
terms will guide the readerto their use in
the bibliography.
1. Autobiography proper refers to an
effortby the authorsto recapturean entire
life from childhood to the advanced age
they mayhavereached.Itsmajorcharacteristic, recoveryandinspectionof earlyyears
and adolescence, makes autobiographers
opt more frequentlyfor the easier memoir.
2. This most popularform,the memoir,
allowsthe authorto ignoreformativeyears
and leap instantly into successful career.
Thus the autobiographerfocuses on a few
yearsratherthana lifetime.Unsurpassedin
frequency, the memoir offers two advantages-privacy and publicity.Onlythe externalor publiclife appearsthus showcasing what is positive and hiding or obscuring whatis privateor even negative.
3. The oral autobiography, perhaps
exemplaryas lingeringcolonialism,continues to findpublicin Mexico.The oralautobiographyallows the illiteratesubjects to
American who straddles the border or lives

simultaneously in both cultures. Gloria
Anzald[ia, even in the title of her book Borderlands/l/afrontera, suggests the continuities of culture beyond the physical boundaries, as does Cherrie Moraga in two hybrid
unroll their lives to a custodian/anthropologist or journalist who wants to capture the

life of an interesting subject, albeit ones incapable of rendering their own.
4. The autobiographical novel. With
the recent acceptance of the theory that
erary worldwhere he either teaches or has

autobiographers create selves the way novsome other officialcapacityin followingreelists create characters has credited the
gions: U.S., Central America, Caribbean,
novel, with roman a clefevents, as legitiSouthernConeandAndeancountries.Travel
mate autobiography.
and autobiography successfully combine
5.Journals, diaries and collections of
self revelationsin friendships.Term
through
letter are easier to recognize and define.
"memoirs'is well appliedhere.
The journal for its lack of intimacy varies
from the diary, a type of letter to the self 3. AcevedoEscobedo,Antonio.(1909-1985)Los
rarely favored by Mexicans.
dias de Aguascalientes. Mexico: Editorial
6. Hybrid texts. Finally, a recalcitrant
Stylo, 1952.89 p.
text may refuse any of the above labels and,
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1922-1951
drawing upon many genres, constitute a hybrid work such as Luis Suirez's Cdrdenas.- Scatteredmemoriesof idealizedchildhoodin
Mexican province. Chapters switch locus
Retrato inddito, which mingles letters,
from environmentto narrator.Formeris alspeeches, testimonies and summaries of
most Azorinein mood; latter,an adolescent
events.
eager to learnfrombooks,sensitivelyrecords
The period covered refers to the years
ruralatmosphere.
the authors incorporate in their texts, so
that a reader may pursue certain decades of 4. AguedaSanchez,Jorge. (1922-) Generacidn
interest through autobiography. Finally, a
40 fi e. Cuarental. Mexico: Impresores
prescriptive annotation designates the auMichoacana,1972-1975.257 p.
thor by profession and birthplace, in addiGenre:Memoirs
tion to summarizing the content and value.
Author
confides thatdocumentis neitherauTo conserve space, telegraphic English
tobiography,
history of a generation, nor a
communicates the autobiography's con"a
novel
but
mosaic
formed by memory..."
tents. It goes without saying that whether
From
he recalls experiMichoacin,
(p.7).
prescriptive or descriptive, the directional
ences of generation in universitylocated in
annotation does not substitute for a reading
downtownMexico City.Noting courses and
of the work.
professors,young authorfeels impingement
of WWII.
1.Abascal, Salvador. (1905?-) Mis recuerdos,
sinarquismoy Colonia. Maria Auxiliadora 5. Aguilar, Enrique. (1900-Birth year of
(1935-1944):con importantesdocumentosde
Nandino) Una vida no/velada. Mexico:
los Archivosde Washington.Mexico:TradiGrijalbo,1986. 172p.
ci6n, 1980.791 p.
Genre:OralAutobiography
Genre:Memoirs
AlthoughAguilarinterviewssubjectanduses
Abascal worked way through ranks to behis letters and personal archives, the docucome head of UNS (Uni6n Nacional del
fits desment,forits scope andinterpretation,
Sinarquismo). Conservative, he interprets
ignation "autobiography."From Cocula,
Revolutionas havingmalignantinfluenceon
Jalisco, Nandino attended preparatory in
Catholicchurch. About 1940, he and followGuadalajaraand finished medical school in
ers set up MariaAuxiliadora,a Sinarquista
Mexico City. Surgeon/poet, he knew los
two profiledhere-Xavier
colony in BajaCalifornia.Lengthymemoirs
Contempordneos,
VillaurrutiaandSalvadorNovo.Nandinocomuncoverhis participationin movementin various parts of Mexico.
bines medicineandpoetry as well as medical
practiceamongprisoners.Honestandexplicit
2. AbreuG6mez,Ermilo.(1894-1971)Andanzas
abouthomosexuality.
memorias.M6xico:EdicionesBoy
extravios."
6. Aguirre,Eugenio. (1944-) De cuerpo
tas, 1965. 169 p.
entero."
Genre:Memoirs
Mexico:EdicionesCorunda,
EugenioAguirre.
Periodcovered:1947?
1991.63 p.
In thirdvolumeof memoirs,authorrecallslitGenre:AutobiographicalEssay
Periodcovered:1949
Artistjourneysto Bonampakin Chiapasand
NovelistAguirrefocuses on youth in anecrecordsimpressionsin wordsanddrawings.
dotes aboutgrandparents,earlylove affairs,
Anguianoin diaryalwaysinvolvesself with
tripsto U.S. and Spain.He talks aboutwritcompanions,climateandflora.Intimacyconing:his admirationfor grandfather,journaltrasts with objectivityand distancingcharist Fernando Ramirezde Aguilar (Jacobo
acteristicof travelgenre. In diaryform, arDalevuelta),experiencesas reporter,develduousthree-weeksojournmanifestscharacopmentof severalnovels,racewithcalendar
teristics of memoir.
to write a book on ValentinG6mez Farias,
adviceto authorsandtechniqueof creating
11. Anzaldiia, Gloria. (1942-) Borderlands
realisticdialogue.
=Frontera.TheNewMestiza.SanFrancisco:
7. Agustin,Jos. (1944-) El rockde la cdrcel
Spinsters/AuntLute, 1987.98 p.
Genre:Essay/poetry
Mexico:EditoresMexicanosUnidos, 1986.
Periodcovered:1930?-1986?
132 p.
Born in Valley of South Texas to migrant
Genre:Memoirs
laborfamily,Anzalduiaexposes some autoPeriodcovered:1964-1971
Elrockchronologicallycomplementsearlier
biographicalfacts,but stresses conditionof
Hispanic women. From the border, she
"?Quidnsoy?"However,action centralizes
claims Indian heritage and advocates
on two major women in Agustin's life,
"Chicano-feminist-lesbian
politics."Chicano
Margaritaand Angd1ica,writing and work
ties withMexicoblatantin title:borderlands,
with films.El Rock,translatingfreneticsixties and use of drugs, refers to Agustin's
fronteraand mestiza.Most hybridof MexicanAmericanautobiographies,Borderlands
for
abuse.
drug
imprisonment alleged
aggressivelyspeaksto womenin bothcountries.
8. Alemain Valdes, Miguel. (1905-1983)
Remembranzas y testimonios. Mexico:
12. AramburoSalas,Francisco.( ?) La Europa
Grijalbo,1987.437 p.
Genre:Memoirs
que yo vi." cartas de un via/ero
sudcaliforniano.Mexico:1962.278 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Miguel Alemain,president from 1946 to
Periodcovered:1960
1952,coverspoliticallifewithfewreferences
to self: childhood, school, marriage and
Young author from Baja Californiatakes
tour to Europe: England, France, Spain,
death of father.Remainderof book, followItaly,Austria and Germany.He confesses
ingAlemainthroughpoliticalcareer,exposes
motiveformemoirs:promiseof impressions
little of functioningof presidency.
to so manyfriendsmadepublicationneces9. Amor,Inds. (1912-1980)Unamujerenelarte
sary. Interactionwith other tour members
and reactions to sites locates impressions
memoriasde InesAmorJorgeAlmexicano.:
withinautobiography.
bertoManrique,TeresaDel Conde.Mexico:
UniversidadNacionalAut6nomade Mexico,
13. Arenal,Angelica. (1910?-) Pdginassueltas
1987.271 p.
con Siqueiros.Mexico: EditorialGrijalbo,
1980.279 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Galleryownerandpatronessof Mexicanart
both at home and abroad, Amor speaks
Firstfortypages biographizeSiqueiros.Refreely to interviewers. Prominent artists
in
filtered
maining, in adulation, intertwine life of
through
appear biographies
Arenal as it relates to Siqueiros. From
Amor.Interviewersdiscuss purpose,techTabasco,Siqueiros'swidowmentionstravel,
niques and interferences.
family,paintings,communismandstruggles
10. Anguiano, Raul. (1913-) Expedicidn a
againstTrotsky.Arenaluses "ti"whichpersonalizes events as "ti"fuses with "yo"and
Mexico:UniBonampak;diariode un viak'e.
"nosotros."
versidad Nacional Aut6noma de Mexico,
1955.73 p.
Genre:Memoirs
14. ArreguinVdlez,Enrique. (1907-) Pdginas

Morelia,Mich.:Nicolas de
autobiogrdficas.
178
1982.
Hidalgo,
p.
Genre:Memoirs
Medicaldoctorfrom Michoacin, Arreguin
V61ezspent career in education:student at
Universityof Michoacanandgraduateof departmentof medicine;professorhere andat
UNAMand InstitutoPolitecnicoNacional;
Secretaryof Educationandothersignificant
positions. Speeches and ideas overwhelm
memoir.
Genre:Memoirs
Professor of math and history of science,
essayist and novelist,ArturoAzuelain travels coversspace,literarythemes andsearch
for self. He envelopes ideas and personalities relating to him, e.g., Juan Rulfo,Julio
Cortaizar,Ernesto Sabato, Vargas Llosa,
Pablo Neruda and SalvadorAllende. Like
SalvadorNovo (q.v. 234), Azuela divulges
personalityin intellectualformof travelwriting. "Enla Sociedadde Escritores"excels as
autobiographicalpiece.
15. Aveleyra-Sadowska,
Teresa. (1920-) Cartas 19. Baddi,Antonio.(1914-) Sortilegiode vivir.la
de Polonia. Mexico: Miguel Angel Porruia,
vida deAntonioBadd en conversaciones
con
1982.217 p.
JorgeMejiaPrieto.Mexico:EditorialDiana,
Genre:Letters
1993. 159 p.
Genre:Interviews
Professional writer, Aveleyra-Sadowska
Periodcovered:1914-1993?
married during year's visit to Poland to
Interviewwithactorworksas memoirforits
concentrationon adultyears. Born in Real
teach Mexican literature. In mailed and
del Monte, Hidalgo to Lebanese parents,
unmailed letters, she expresses emotions
aboutlove, marriageandprematurewidowBadustartedcareerin radio,silent filmand
television. Singer,actor and film producer,
hood, and profiles of Polish culture,mood,
decants popular culture: films, songs,
and personality.
events, personalities,opinionsand photos.
16. AvilesFabila,Rene. (1940-)Memoriasde un
maquinuscritoencontradoen un 20. Balbas, Manuel. ( ? ) Recuerdosdelyaquzi
comunsta."
de Pertsur.Mexico, D.E: Gernika,
basurero
Princtzalesepisodiosdurantela campafa de
1991. 167 p.
1899 a 1901. Mexico, D.F., Sociedad de
Genre:Memoir
1927.
Edici6ny LibreriaFranco-Americano,
117 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Professor,novelist,essayist andshort story
writer,Aviles Fabilahumorouslyrecounts
Balbas, sent to subdue Yaquis of Sonora
years as Communist. Anecdotes betray
duringPorfiriato,performsdualrole of obparty'scontradictions.
server and participantin battling.Autobiographicalin use of first and third persons,
17. Azar, Hector. (1930-) De cuerpo
BalbassympathizeswithYaquis,but is ever
entero."
HictorAzar. Mexico: Ediciones Corunda,
partisanof dictator.
1991.49 p.
21. Barragain,
Genre:Memoirs
Jose Miguel. (1835-1864)PequePeriodcovered:1935-1967
fo diarioportdtil, 1864.: (memoriasde un
Poet and dramatist,Azar centers on early
guerrzllerodurantela intervencidnfrancesa).
San Luis Potosi: Academia de la Historia
years in Atilixco, Puebla where Lebanese
mother had clothing store that she later
Potosina,1972.29 p.
moved to Mexico City.Noting education,
Genre:Diary
Periodcovered:1864
including Carlos Pellicer as a teacher, attempts at theaterand poetry,AzarcommuBarragin, fightingon side ofJuirez in War
of French Interventionin San Luis Potosi
nicates with prose as interestingas autobiand Tamaulipas,records impressionsuntil
ography.
death by firingsquad,August2, 1864.Reg18. Azuela,Arturo.(1938-) La marde utopias.
istering maneuvers more than emotions,
Madrid:Ediciones de CulturaHispinica,
diaryis missing entries for 1862and 1863.
1991. 197 p.
22. Barrios,Elias. ( ? ) El escuadrdzde hierro.

Mexico:Edicionesde CulturaPopular,1978.
182 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Barrios,self-confessedhumblemanof working class, views labormovementin railways
in 1920s.
of capturingand translatinglife of another

into alien culture. "Oneproblem with the
genre [lifehistory] has alwaysbeen its use
of the Westernformof the autobiographyto
encase the self-narrative of a persona
marginalizedby the West, a personusually
lacking access to the means of production
and often the ideologicalconstructsnecesin the
saryto turntalkintoan autobiography
firstplace,let aloneintopages in a book"(p.
272).
23. Bassi, Sofia. (1939-) Bassi...prohibidopronunciarsunombre."

andcdotasde SofiaBassi.
Mexico: Tall.
de la Imper.Venecia, 1978.
329 p.
26. Bello Hidalgo,Luis. (1896-?) Antropologia
Genre:Memoirs
de la Revolucidnde Por'frioDiaz a Gustavo
Diaz Ordaz.Mexico:Tallares de B. Costa
Self-taughtpainter,scenery painter,and ilAmic, 1966.410 p.
lustratorof books, Bassi, accused of homiGenre:Memoirs
cide in 1968, spent four years in Acapulco
Author experiences Revolution under
jail. Relations with family and successful
career as artistperipheralto incarceration.
eleven presidents: Diaz, Madero, Huerta,
Carranza,Calles,Cardenas,AvilaCamacho,
24. Bassols, Narcisso. (1897-1959) Cartas.
Alemain,Ruiz Cortines, L6pez Mateos and
Mexico:UniversidadNacionalAut6nomade
Diaz Ordaz.Bello Hidalgois partialto conMexico: Instituto Politecnico Nacional,
temporary Manuel Avila Camacho, also
1986.439 p.
born in Teziutlin, Puebla.
Genre:Letters
27. Benitez, Fernando.(1911-) Chinaa la visLaw professor and government official,
ta. Mexico:EdicionesCuadernosamericaBassols held manyoffices:secretaryof Pubnos, 1953.217 p.
lic Education,Government,and Treasury;
Genre:Memoirs
ambassadorto GreatBritain,France,RusPeriodcovered:1952
sian; and adviser to Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.
Journalistpens travelbook sufficientlypersonal to merit label "autobiography."
For
Topicallyorganizedby Bassols, letters fall
into9 categories:personal,nationalpolitics,
four months he visits China stopping in
economic and social problems,nationalizaroute in Cuba,Amsterdam,Zurich,Prague
tionof petroleum,democraticrights,educaand Moscow.
tional and cultural affairs, world politics,
Spain (CivilWarand refugees) and against 28. Bernal, Nicolas T. (1892-? ) Memorias.
Facisim.Detailedtableof contentsindicates
Mexico: Centrode EstudiosHist6ricosdel
MovimientoObreroMexicano,1982.158p.
scope of contactsof brilliantlawyer.
Genre:Memoirs
25. Behar, Ruth. (1930?-Birth year of
In readabledocument,Bernal notes politiEsperanza)TranslatedWoman:.
Crossingthe
BorderwithEsperanza'sStory.Boston:Beacal activitieson both sides of borderwhere
con Press, 1993.372 p.
he knew anarchistsattackingdictatorship:
Flores Mag6n brothers and families,
Periodcovered:1930?-1989
AlexanderBerkman,EmmaGoldman,Ethel
Esperanza Hernandez, pseudonym of
Duffy Turner, Ram6n Delgado, Librado
Mexquitic protagonist, a "de-Indianized"
Rivera,etc.
womanof lowerclass origins,narratesabout
three generations of females in family. 29. BernalJimdnez,Miguel. (1910-1956)Pdgiuas de un diario intimo. Morelia,
Daughter, mother and street vendor,
Esperanzadialogues with Behar to create
Michoacin, Mexico: Fimax Publicistas,
novelisticlife of survivalandoppression.Of
1982.96 p.
Genre:Diary
equal value, Behar'sinsights x-rayprocess
Periodcovered:1928
Prolific author and composer from 33. Brambila,David. ( ? ) De la tierra herida.

Mexico:Buena Prensa,1964.40 p.
Michoacin, Bernal Jimenez journeyed to
Genre:Memoirs
Romeon sponsoredtripin orderto perfect
Periodcovered:1930s
self as organist.Stayingthere from 1928to
1933to become expert in Gregorianmusic,
Although too short to qualify as a monohe images devoutly Catholic youth comgraph,De la tierraheridawithpoeticconcision and b/w photographsserves as commenting on music lessons, performances
de un diario,a Jesuit's
and churches.
panionpiece to Hojazs
experience amongTarahumara.
30. Blanco Moheno, Roberto. (1920-) La noticia detrdsde la noticia.Mexico:EditorialV 34. Bravo,Roberto. (1947-) De cuerpoentero.RobertoBravo.Mexico:EdicionesCorunda,
Siglos, 1975.320 p.
1991.49 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:AutobiographicalEssay
Periodcovered:1965?
Sequelto Memoriasde un reporteromingles
and
of
Veracruzano
and authorof several books,
interpretive essays
autobiography
Bravovivifiesyears as studentat University
history.BlancoMoheno,in usualpolemical
of Xalapa.In second half of concise autobiform, battles politicians and journalistsin
themes relatingto communism,agrarianreography,he recreatesdrug-inducedhell.
America.
and
Central
form,
35. BravoIzquierdo,Donato. (?) Lealtadmilitar (campafa en el estadode Chiapase Ist31. Blanco Moheno, Roberto. (1920-) Ya con
mo de Tehuantepec,1923-1924). Mexico,
Wstame despido.:
mi vida,pero las de los demds.Mexico:Grijalbo,1986.351 p.
D.E, 1948. 144p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
General in army, Bravo Izquierdo fought
More than in two earlier works reporter
Adolfo de la Huerta,who rebelled against
Blanco Moheno covers life from birth to
Obreg6n.Eyewitness/participantmoments
publicationof present book. Not autobiogof quellingrevoltdilutedwithhistoricalcomraphyproper,Yacon esta reflects genre of
memoirs for author'sconcentrationon exmentary.
ternal events. Opinionatedand honest to
point of scandal, he portrays alcoholic fa- 36. Brimmer, Gaby. (1947-) Cartas de Gaby.
Mexico:EditorialGrijalbo,1982.136p.
ther, suffering mother and poverty-burGenre:Memoirs
dened siblingsfirstin Coatepec(Guerrero)
and then in Mexico City.No chapter diviCollection forms three separate composions interruptdiscursive flow of succinct
nents, letters to ElenaPoniatowska,to famessays and autobiographicalfact.
ily and to friends. Intimateof Poniatowska
32. Bosques Saldivar,Gilberto. (1892-) His-P
(q.v. 255), Brimmer,severly handicapped
shows more of self survivingand achieving
torialoraldela diplomaciamexicana.Mdxiwith severe physical handicap.Frankness
co: ArchivoHist6ricoDiplomaticoMexicaaboutfamilyrelationships,excitementover
no, 1988.
Genre:Memoirs
adopteddaughter,andcommentsaboutcurrent events compriseother themes.
Bornin Villade Chiahutla,Puebla,Bosques
Saldivar,schoolteacherandsenator,images 37. Brimmer, Gaby and Elena Poniatowska.
(1947-Birth
yearof Brimmer).GabyBrimmer.
years in diplomaticcorps in France,PortuMexico:EditorialGrijalbo,1979.200p.
gal, Sweden, Finland and Cuba. Service,
Genre:Oralautobiography
1938-1964,spannedWWIIthrough Cuban
Revolution:Spanish refugees, prisoner of
As center of autobiography,Gaby'sconfesGermans,ColdWar,andmountingof Mexisions dominate;however,two others intercan art exhibit.He interpretsMexicanrelations with CubafromBatistato Revolution.
vene and perceive her life, her nurse and
No particularson methodology or editing
companion,Florenciaand her motherSari.
Gabyrefuses to surrenderto cerebralpalsy
accompanyproductof oralhistoryprogram.
anddeterminesto live normally.Gabyinfrequently amplifies with poem segments of

clear Poniatowska prose. Gaby, un ado
(Mexico:EditorialGrijalbo,1980)
despudse
echoes in poems themes in present work
and in Cartasde Gaby(q.v.36).
Doctorof law,Burgoawas professor,university administratorandjudge in FederalDistrict. Of 15 books on law,his Lasgarantias
individualesandEljuicio de amparorepublished manytimes.Burgoapaysmoreattention to youth, family and travels than do
most memoirists.
38. Brisefio, Romo. ( ? ) Confidencialmente;,

Mdxicosocial y burocrdticoal descubierto.
42. CabreraBarroso, Enrique. (1953?-1971)
Mexico:B. Costa-Amic,1967.200 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Cdrcel municipal. Mexico: Ediciones de
CulturaPopular,1973.81 p.
Genre:Memoirs
AlthoughBrisefioexposes problemsof buPeriodcovered:1961-1962
reaucracyand society,onlyPartI manifests
Author,politically-leftstudentactivist,(one
autobiography.Efforts to publish novel,
founder of Frente Universitario NacioSuedos,ilusionesyrealidades(1965) unfied
work. In additionto insider'sview on pubnalista,Circulode EstudiosMarxistas"Jose
MariaMorelosy Pav6n,"and Comit6Civico
lishing,he touches uponcarnallove, incomde Acci6nSocial)traveledto CubaforRevopetentmedicalservices andshoddycontraclution.In 1961,forpoliticalactivities,he was
tors.
jailed in la Carcel de San Juan de Dios.
Present documentof prison life, work and
39. Brondo Whitt, Eulogio. (1887-) Chihualove resulted from detention. Cabrera
huensesy tapatios (De CuidadGuerreroa
Barroso autobiographizesin introduction
Guadalajara. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial
and chapterone and passivelyrecords imLumen,1939.165 p.
Genre:Memoirs
pressions in remainingpart.
Periodcovered:1938
Brondo Whitt first describes a journey 43. Cabrerade Tablada,Nina. (1871-1945-Life
throughChihuahuaregalingreaderwithanyears of Tablada)fosdfJuan Tabladaen la
Intimidad.(Concartasy poemas ineditos).
ecdotes on hunting, folklore and regional
Mexico:ImprentaUniversitaria,1954.113p.
personalities.Secondpartrecountsten-day
Farinferior
visit withfamilyin Guadalajara.
Genre:Memoir
to warexperiencesrelatedin LaDivisiondel
As Cubanwidow of famous poet, Cabrera
norte.
Tablada deserves forum. She touches on
her life with him but noting his creative
40. Bufill,Jose Angel. (1889-1959-Lifeyears of
moods and inspirationsand their travelsto
Reyes) "Los amigos cubanos de Alfonso
Cuba, Mexico, South America and U.S.
Reyes: un dialogo ennoblecido por la cultura."Thesis (Ph.D.) George Washington,
Memoirs should accompanyLaferia de la
1986.2 vols.
vida.
Genre:Letters
44. Calles, PlutarcoElias. (1877-1945) CorresPeriodcovered:1914-1956
First volume biographizes not only Reyes
fondencia personal, 1919-1945. Introbut twenty-twoCubancorrespondents induccidn,seleccidny notasde CarlosMacias.
Mexico:Fondode CulturaEcon6mica,1991.
cludingJorge Mahiach,Jose MariaChac6n
and Felix Lizaso, Jose Varona,Francisco
535 p.
Genre:letters
Jose Castellanos, Mariano Brull, Juan
Marinello,Eugenio Florit,etc. In forty-two
Governorof Sonorafrom 1917to 1919and
years of letters, Reyes's personality
president of Mexico, 1924-1928, Calles
emerges: intellectualliveliness, loyaltyand
warmth.
spent much of career in government service. Firstvolume incorporatesexchanges
between Calles and other governmentoffi41. Burgoa Orihuela, Ignacio. (1918-) MeMexico:
cials with self realizedmainlyin familycorepitome
autobiogr4dfco.
morias."
Porrna,1987.590 p.
respondence,pp. 407-476.
Genre:Memoirs
45. Camacho,Ramiro.(?)
estam- 49. Cantui,JuanLuis. (1894-?)Memoriasde 2n
Mimadreyyo."
modestoe tgnoradorevolucionario:.
ahos de
pas histdricas de provincia, 1855-1937.
"El
Editorial
1943.
Estudiante,"
Guadalajara:
Monterrey,N.L., 1948.118p.
1908-1912.
483 p.
Genre:
Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
Memoriesof young pro-MaderorevolutionSecundina Ruiz de Camacho (1855-1936)
ary fromMonterrey.Because of age, he beleft unpublishedautobiographyfromwhich
comes aid to ColonelJustinianoG6mezbut
her son Fr.RamiroCamachotook excerpts
never sees action.Documenthas value for
and complementedthem with pieces of his
vignettes of two leaders, Bernardo Reyes
lifeplusmanyparagraphsof historicalexplaand VenustianoCarranza.Even in middle
nation. Fanatical Catholics from Guadaage, Canturecaptureswarfever of younger
self.
lajara,mother and son oppose reform of
1857andalso anticlericalismof 1920sin cu50. Carballo,Emmanuel.(1929-) De cuerpoenriously combined autobiography.
tero.:Emmanuel Carballo. Mexico: Edi46. Camaray Zavala,Felipe de la. (1815-1878)
ciones Corunda,1991.65 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Memorias de don Felize de la Cdmaray
Zavala. Mexico, D.E: EditorialYucalpeten,
1975.78 p.
Short story writerandcritic,Carballoin linGenre:Memoirs
eal accounttraceschildhoodin Guadalajara
in superbandhonest portraitof parentscapPeriodcovered:1836-1840
Apparentlypublishedfor first time in 1975,
turing Tapatio atmosphere. Pages on primemoirs of Colonel Felipe de la Camaray
mary education through university form
Zavalaare outstandingfor 19th century.A
some of best in autobiography.Clarityof
federalist,fightingagainstcentralizingSanta
prose and selection of ideas make reader
wish for largerautobiography.
Anna,Camaray Zavalaintersperseshistory
with autobiographydataand anecdotes.
51. Carballo,MarcoAurelio.(1942-) De cuerpo
47. Campbell,Federico. (1941-) De cuerpoenentero:Marco Aurelio Carballo.Mexico:
Ediciones Corunda,1990.58 p.
Campbell.Mexico:Edi-ciones
tero.:Federico
Genre:AutobiographicalEssay
Corunda,1990.59 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Novelist and short story writer, Carballo
In dialoguewithsister,Campbelllocatesbespent first eighteen years of life in
ginningsthroughlives of parents.PersonaliTapachula,Chiapas.Familyrelationships,
ties of father, a railroadtelegrapher, and
earlylove forreading,journalismin Mexico
mother,a primaryschool teacher,emerge
City and other efforts at writing comprise
more delineatedthan author'sin action in
autobiography.
Navojoa,Sonoraand Tijuana,BajaCalifor52. Cardenas, Emilia. (1900?-) Emilia, una
nia.
moz.
VillegasMu
myjerdefiquilpan/GrHselda
48. Cano Manilla,Ram6n. (1888-1974) PrisoJiquilpan,Michoacan:Centro de Estudios
de la Revoluci6nMexicana"LAzaro
nerode ValleNacional:bellocapftldode mi
Cardevida.CiudadVictoria,Tamaulipas,Mexico:
nas,"1984.208 p.
InstitutoTamaulipecode Cultura,1985.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1905
InterviewingEmiliaCardenasin 1982 and
CanoManilla,Tamaulipanpainter,left type1983, Villegas Mufioz recorded words as
writtenmanuscriptof autobiography.Hacispoken,butmentionsno interventionsin orenda peon, he accompaniesfriendto Valle
ganizinglife of womanmeantto be typical.
Revolutionand Cristero wars impinge on
Nacional, an enforced prison camp in
Oaxaca. Miraculousescape and return to
lifestory that could be that of any woman:
Veracruzmake for happyending.Text, acparents,marriage,stories,riddles,songs,funerals,etc.
companied by autobiographicalpainting,
condemnsPorfiriato.
53. CardenasD., Hip61lito.

Periodcovered:1918-?
(1900?-?)Mifadrey
yo. Mexico:EditorialStylo, 1962.198p.
AlthoughCasasuisde SierraoccasionallydeGenre:Memoirs
picts concrete reality,writingstend to self
analysisandher goal, "Mideseo de penetrar
el significado de las almas, es mas agudo
Child/adolescent growing up in undiscovered Acapulco,he experiences earlyyears
cada dia..." (p. 139), is no less true for self
of Revolution.A caudillomysteriouslyimthanfor others.Comparisonto SimoneWeil
andAlbertSchweitzerevidencesboth mysprisoned and yet somehow freed and protected by Maderistas,fatherraisedcattlein
ticism and love for humanity(q.v.58).
Guerrero.Coupledto skirmishes with enemy bandits and survival of family is 58. Casasuisde Sierra,Margarita.(?) 33de La
author's desire for education, a goal
.lEE.Mexico:EditorialCultura,1930.188p.
achieved by migration to Mexico City in
Genre:Memoirs
1924.
Nurse/postulant,youngauthorfinds mean54. CardenasHernandez,Gregorio.( ? ) Adids
ing in sufferings of others and validates
LecumberriMexico:EditorialDiana, 1981.
Christianityby serving them. Workingin
391p.
hospital,she dailyobserves andsuccorsailGenre:Memoirs
ing.
Periodcovered:1942Like Celda16, CardenasHernandezvacil- 59. Castellanos Everardo, Melton. (1920-?)
lates betweensociology andautobiography.
Testimoniode un
Entrevistas de
hombre."
He is more observer and recorderthan an
HumbertoHerndndeztiradoa MiltonCasteemotional sentient being. Initialchapters,
llanosEverardo.Tijuana,Baja California,
history of prisons in Mexico foretell socioLitografiaLim6n,1983.253 p.
Genre:Interview
logicalnatureof workin whichlife in prison
dominatesover life of prisoner.
Questionsandanswersrelateto specificin55. Cardona Pefia, Alfredo. (1886-1957-Life
cidentsin interviewwithformergovernorof
years Rivera)El monstrkoen su laberinto.
Baja California. Lawyer, Castellanos
Everardowas federal senator and headed
Mexico, D.F.:EditorialDiana,1980.202 p.
politicalcampaignforAdolfoRuizCortines
in BajaCalifornia.Themes of campaigning
Cardona Pefia asks questions and then
and government,drinkingwater,civic cennotes responses. 63-year-oldRiverareflects
ter,andpublicfinancedeflectattentionfrom
self.
mainlyon followingtopics: primitive,folk,
andpreHispanicart,Mexicanpaintingsand
art critics. Invariablechildhood anecdotes 60. Castillo,Heberto. (1928-) Site agarran,te
van a matar Mexico: Ediciones Oceano,
grace earlierpages.
1983. 150p.
56. CarrilloMarcor,Alejandro.(1908-?) AfunGenre:Memoirs
tesy testimonios.Mexico:El Nacional,1989.
432 p.
Engineer and authorbut mainlypolemical
Genre:Memoirs
journalist,CastillofoundedMovimientode
Liberaci6nNacional, an anti-imperialistic
Lawyer,educator,editorof periodicals,poliorganization.Involvedin MLNin 1968,he
tician and diplomat, CarrilloMarcor prewas imprisoned for two and a half years.
sents self in hybrid memoir comprised
Psychologicalproblemssuch as meaningof
time for prisonermore value than capture.
mainlyof supportingdocumentsandquotations. Born in Hermosillo,Sonora,he was
educatedboth in U.S. and Mexico.Interest- 61. Castillo,Porfiriodel. ( ? ) Pueblay Tlaxcala
en los dzasde la Revolucidn.Mexico, 1953.
ing life but not interestingautobiography.
321 p.
Genre:Memoirs
57. Casasis de Sierra,Margarita.( ? ) Las 11aPeriodcovered:1910-1925?
vesperdidas.Mexico:UNAM,1961.281 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Constitutionalistcolonelin armyof General
in eighty-pagememoir,he impartsmore in
Pablo Gonzalez and Inspector General of
second part, "Peopleand Circumstances."
Police in Puebla in 1920, Castillo knew
Serdainsand other famous revolutionaries
Biographiesof acquaintancesandfriends,a
whos's who for 30-year period, also
fromPueblaandTiaxcala.More observer/
autobiographizeauthor.
participantrather than historian, he supportstext withphotographsandotherdocu66. Cedillo,Luciano.(1909-) iVaaamonos/Lumentation.
chas, anecdotas y problemas de los
62. CastilloNajera,Oralba.(1897-1986-Lifedaferrocarrileros.Mexico:Edicionesde Cultura Popular,1979.
tes of Leduc)Renatoy sus amigos.Mexico:
Genre:Memoirs
EditorialDomes, 1987.431 p.
Genre:Interviews
Brakemanand assistantto chief of railway
CastilloNAjeragenerateddispersedautobiyards, author records work and labor
struggles within train unions. Appropriate
ography by arranging meetings between
anecdotes liven narration set in railway
Renato Leduc and close friends: Aurora
yards of Monterrey.
Reyes,AlejandroG6mezArias,RaquelDiaz
de Le6n, Andres Iduarte, Alejandro
Eleguezabal, AlejandroG6mez Maganda, 67. Cejudo,RobertoE (1890-?) Del 'Diariode
Andres Henestrosa, Francisco Liguori,
Campafa"delGeneraldeBgada RobertoE
Vicente Colunga,FedricoCantui,Juande la
Cejkdo.Mazatlin,Sin.:JorgeB. Le6n,1935.
42 p.
Cabada,SoniaAmelio,LuisCastro,Silverio
Genre:Memoirs
Perez and Juan Bustillo Oro. As catalyst,
CastilloNAjerailluminatespersonalitiesof
Few autobiographiesrelatingto militarylife
Leducand companions.
have sincerity and honesty of detail of
63. Castilloy Pifia,Jos . (? ) Las oasisdelcamiCejudowho began career in 1904when he
no. Mejico:ImprentaEfren Rubollar,1936.
ran away from home. He expresses with
486 p.
good humorthe roughnessandhumiliation
of recruitlife. Moralisticand patriotictone
Genre:Memoirs
characterizesperiodas muchas writerwho
Incidents of travel and companions merit
pays tributeto soldaderas.
mention,butpantheisticpriestexposes emotions interacting with landscape in 68. CerveraEspejo,Alberto. ( ? ) Unyucateco
en Cubasocialista.:morrocutudahistoriade
Monterrey, Guadalajara,Patzcuaro and
un viaje.Merida,Yucatdn:MaldonadoEdiPopocatepetl.
tores, 1985.77 p.
Genre:Memoirs
64. Castro,Sim6nHip61lito.
(1942-) De albaWil
a presopolitico. Mexico: EditorialPosada,
Periodcovered:1976?
1978. 133p.
Journalist,accompaniedby daughter,travGenre:Memoirs
els to Castro's Cuba and in short lightPeriodcovered:1976
heartedchaptersinvolvesRevolutionmainly
Sim6n Castro, bricklayerfrom Atoyac de
through literacy and book programs.
CerveraEspejo notes similaritiesbetween
Alvarezde Guerrero,becameleftistjournalCubaandYucatan.
ist. A prisoner,he denouncedpenal system
for unjustincarcerations.
69. Chac6n,Joaquin-Armando.
(1944-)De cuerM?
xi65. Castroy Castro,Fernando. (1925-) Pensapa enteroj.'oaqu-n-Armando Chacdn.
co: EdicionesCorunda,1992.73 p.
miento,personasycircunstanciasen 30 aos
Genre:Memoirs
de servicios.Mexico: Bufete de Ediciones,
1979.560 p.
Genre:Memoirs
FromChihuahua,novelistChac6nhas spent
muchof life in MexicoCityandCuernavaca.
Both linearand temporalspace appearlimLawyer,diplomat,politicianand publicserited as he autobiographizes struggles to
vantCastroy Castroheld manygovernment
writeandinteractionswithNildaandfamily.
positionsduringcareer.Presentingself first
He focuses on intellectual,creativeandwrit- 73. Chavez,Julio. (1920-)

Vestidasydesvestidas."
50 aWosen lafardndmda
de Mdxico.Mexico:
ing self.
RaulJuirez CarroEditorial,1991.286 p.
70. Chac6n, Rafael. (1833-1925) Legacy of
Genre:Memoirs
Honor.:TheLife of Rafael Chacdn,a NineJulio Chavez,successful couturier,quickly
teenth-CenturyNew Mexican. Edited by
abandonshumble beginnings leaping into
JacquelineDorgan Maketa.Albuquerque:
worldsof film andvaudeville.CreatingcosUniversityof New Mexico Press, 1986.
Genre:Memoirs
tumes for 216 films, he became friend or
acquaintance with many women stars.
Source for popular culture, Chavez's life
Meketa,translatorandeditorof manuscript
of prominentNew Mexicansoldier,enriches
brings out some of Mexico'sdemimondein
19th century through life of Hispanowho
escapades of transvestitefriend.
incarnatesmuch of history of New Mexico:
cadet in Chihuahua, Indian fighter and 74. ChazaroPous,Gabriel.(1888-?)Pluviosilla,
trader in decade of 1850s, head of New
reminiscencias.Mexico:Imp."Gama,"1941.
Mexicounitof UnionArmyin 1861,andwar
49 p.
Genre:Memoirs
against Navajos. In 1870s, he moved to
Trinidad,Coloradoto ranch.Findof Chac6n
memoirs significant both for Mexican
Biographer and essayist born in
Americansand for Mexicans.
Tlacotalpam,Veracruz,author reminisces
aboutPluviosillaof Porfiriato.Dispersingau71. Chavez,Carlos.(1899-1978)Epzfitolario
setobiographicaldataamongnostalgicscenes
lectode CarlosChdvez.Selecci6n, introducof school,servants,women,medicaldoctors
andfamily,he reviewspastwith humorand
ci6n,notasy bibliografiade GloriaCarmona.
Mexico:Fondode CulturaEcon6mica,1989.
contentment.
1107p.
Genre:Letters
75. ColinaRiquelme,Rafaelde la. (1898-) RaPeriodcovered:1919-1978
faelde la Colina.:una vidade hechos.(pr6loAccordingto New GroveDictionaryofMugo de CesarSepulveda).Mexico:Secretaria
sic and Musicians (1980), [Chavezwas a]
de RelacionesExteriores,1985. 142p.
"Mexican composer, conductor, teacher,
Genre:Memoirs
writeron musicandgovernmentofficial.His
role in the musical and cultural life of
Colinahadlong careerin service of governMexico was decisive during the second
ment:memberof Consulatein Philadelphia,
St. Louis (Missouri), Eagle Pass (Texas),
quarterof the 20thcentury"(Vol.IV,p. 185).
Chavez letters suggest public man more
Boston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San
than privateindividualin correspondence
AntonioandNew York,he also held rankof
withAaronCopland,HenryCowell,Lincoln
ambassadorto U.S.,UnitedNations,Canada
and Japan and OAS. He concentrates on
Kirstein, Claire R.Reis, Moises Saenz,
these in memoirsafterbackgroundchapter
LeopoldoStokowski,Paul Strandand others.
on family and youth. Dispassionately he
talks of Mexican Americans, an essential
72. Chavez,Jose Carlos.(?-1939-Deathyear of
theme given Colina'sassignments.
Castro) Peleando en Tomochi.3.ed. rev.
Chihuahua,Chih.,Mexico: CentroLibrero 76. ColoradoJr., Belisario. ( ? ) Epistolariode
LaPrensa, 1979. 158p.
viaje,un vividorelatodelaAlemaniaactual,
una ojeadade Holanday un visajede Roma
yParis. MKxico:EditorialDivulgaci6n,1966.
GeneralFranciscoCastro,secondlieutenant
142 p.
Genre:Memoirs
on side of federal government "subduing"
Periodcovered:1965
IndiansofTomochic,narratedoralmemoirs
to Jose CarlosChivez. Castrosympathizes
Author attended seminar in Berlin orgawith Indians abused by government and
nized by GermanFoundationfor DevelopmentionsTeresa Urrea,Santaof Cabora.
ing Countries. Subjective impressions of
events,personalities,andcustoms,differen-
tiate workfrom general objectivetravelaccount.
on formativeyears.
81. Cueva,Eusebio de la. (1893-1943)Por tierras de Quevedoy Cervantes.Monterrey:

Mirelesy Estrada,1917.239 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1914?
Youngjournalistleaves countryin orderto
travelto Spaingivingminuteaccountofvoyage, arrivalin Vigo andtripto Madrid.Contradictingtitle, he has more interestin own
feelings and experiences than Spanishculture. Descriptioncenters on routinelife as
78. Cortina,Leonor.(?) Lucia.Mexico:Editohe graduallyloses financialresources and
rialLibrosMexico, 1988.224 p.
looks forothermeansof support.Interestin
narrator'ssurvival absorbs all of reader's
attentionas self assumesmuchmoreimporMaidLuciaRodriguezcollaboratedwithemtance than Spanishenvironment.
ployer to tell story. Cortina, sharing no
methodology with reader, blurs contribu- 82. Cuevas,Jose Luis. (1934-) Cuevasantesde
tions of subject and editor. Virtuous,
Cuevas.Mexico:BrugueraMexicana,1990?
228 p.
hardworkingandintelligent,Luciasurvives
in multipleunskilledjobs, but usually as a
Genre:Memoirs
maid. Her cunning, honesty and perseverPeriodcovered:1936?-1955?
In fourth and overlapping volume of
ance endear her to reader. Life follows
cuevario(q.v. 83, 84, 85)Cuevascontinues
picaresquemode: adventuresand adversities but at same level of society, character
lifestory. Each "memoria"encapsulates
undeveloped during course of story, construggle for success. Drawing, traveling,
tinualportrayalof submarginalclasses, own
family,encounterswith celebritiesandlove
code of moralityandultimateendearmentto
affairsinterestalthoughnotgivingcoherent
reader.LuciamuchlikeElenaPoniatowska's
personality.Monsters that populate drawJesusa Polancares.
ings incarnateselves in life.
77. Cordero,Joaquin.(1926-) Andcdotasde uz

actor.Mexico:EditorialDiana,1990.347 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Actorin more than 150films andpioneerin
television,Corderopresentsself chronologicallyin subchaptersbearingnames of films.
Informalautobiographyserves as behindscenes view of film industry.
79. CotaSaindez,FernandoInes. (1918-) Auto- 83. Cuevas,Jose Luis. (1934-) HzstoriasdelviaLaPaz:Gobiernode BajaCaliforjero. Mexico:Premia,1987.
biogray6a.
nia Sur,1984.39 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
Artist in encapsulated incidents of travel
CotaSandez,afteryears of teachingboth in
exposes enormousego in selections previCalifornia
and
won
office
Tamaulipas,
Baja
ously appearingin "Excelsior."More than
as nationaldelegate from territoryof Baja
other autobiographical
work,HzstoriassugCaliforniaand PRIsenatorin 1974.
gests structureof short stories.Outrageous
Cuevas involves self in painting, prizes,
80. Cox,Patricia(Bustamante).(1906?-?)Amasexual encountersand conflictwitheditors.
necer. Mexico: Editorial Anthony, 1946.
230 p.
84. Cuevas,Jose Luis. (1934-) Historiaspara
Genre:Autobiography
una exposicid.Mexico:Premia,1988.95 p.
Genre:Memoirs
With its nucleus on earlyyears,Amanecer,
conforms more to autobiographyproper
In21 autobiographical
essays, muchin same
thananyothersubgenresof lifewriting.Life
patternof Historiasde
(q.v.82,8385)
viaero
is sad-death of mother,loving fathergenCuevasreviewschildhood,
painting,sexual
encounters and travel.One of chaptersinerally absent, several school teachers who
volvesartrelationshipwithMartaTraba,Areitherlove or despiseCox,andan evilIndian
maidwho tormentsher.No otherwomanaugentine critic. Style, ego, and theme vary
little fromother Cuevasautobiographies.
tobiographerhas so intenselyconcentrated
85. Cuevas,Jose Luis. (1934-)JosdLuisCuevas

CollectiontheArtGalleryof Winzdor,
Performer,directorand fanaticbuff of opLetters."
Ontario,Canada,TasendeGallery,LaJolla,
era, Diaz Du-Pond personalizes experiences. As in laterwork (q.v.89), he merges
California.1981 [Lettersandtext translated
accountsof own life with 50 operaseasons.
by Beth M. Sundheim.][82] p.
Genre:letters
89. Diaz Du-Pond,Carlos.(1911-) 15/tempora31 letterswrittento Jose MariaTasende,galdas de dpera en
testimonios
Guadalafara."
lery owner,friendand confidanteof artist,
operisticos.Guadalajara:
Departamentode
Bellas Artes, 1987.63 p.
comprisecollection.Handwrittenoriginalin
Genre:Memoir
Spanishhas morevaluebecauseof Cuevas's
drawings. Friendship, travel, art shows,
works in progress, competition,fear of asDirector of operas, Diaz Du-Pondcatalogs
sault in Mexico, and especially Bertha exeach season in Guadalajara.
He interweaves
with
own
pose a Cuevasmore humanandvulnerable
operas
impressionsand life. (q.v.
than self presented in other four autobiog88)
raphies. (q.v.82, 83, 84).
Cartaspara una exposicidn(Mexico, D.E: 90. DiazInfante,S.J.,Carlos.(?) 100,000/:e.]
Unidad Azcapotzalco, Universidad
cien mil kildmetrosmisionerosen la nueva
Aut6nomaMetropolitana,1981.248 p) has
tarahumara.Siseguichi, Chihuahua,1967.
103 p.
seventy-one letters written to Jose Maria
Tasende.Well-illustrated
lettersare present
Genre:Memoirs
for drawings;originaltext is indecipherable.
Periodcovered:1955
Jesuit priest works among TarahumaraIn86. Curiel,Fernando.(1942-) De cuerpo
dians of Chihuahua.As in colonial times,
entero."
Fernando Curiel. Mexico: Ediciones
Christianizationof Indiansalso involveslitCorunda,1991.59 p.
eracy and health. Personalityof dedicated
Genre:Memoir
missionaryemerges in sociologicalmemoir
of dailylives of Tarahumara.
No chronologybut chunks of information
isolated and characterizedby self dialogue 91. Diaz Ramirez,MariaEugenia. (1907-) Meor probingsof unknownrelentless and acmoriasde una nika queretana.Queretaro,
Qro.: Direcci6n de Patrimonio Cultura,
cusing questionercomprise cubistic memoirs of writer.Topics of family,Nicaragua,
1989.92 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Paris,NewYorkCity,London,readinginterests and literaryacquaintances.
Idealizeschildhoodin Queretaro:family,ha87. Delaflor y Casanova, Noe. (1904?-? )
cienda,Revolution,sociallife andmarriage.
viruShe abruptlyends memoirsin 1983confessAutobiografcasy escritos."fragmentos,
tasy astillas.Mexico:Costa-AmicEditores,
ing, "Igot married,hadeight children,trav1983.241 p.
eled, lived in a world, but this is another
Genre:Memoirs?
story that I don'tfeel like writing"(p. 92).
Born in Teapa, Tabasco, Delaflor y 92. Diaz Serrano,Jorge. (1921-) Yo,JorgeDiaz
Casanova was governor of Tabasco and
Serrano.Mexico: GrupoEditorialPlaneta,
1989.262 p.
judge of SuperiorTribunalofJusticeof Federal District and social reformer.Curious
Genre:Memoirs
memoirsblend autobiography,history and
Morereadablethanmostmemoirs,Yo,Jorge
aphorisms.Concentratingon educationand
politics,he includes tributesto self.
Diaz Serrano has much Pemex history.
Mechanicalandelectricalengineer,ambas88. Diaz Du-Pond,Carlos. (1911-) Cincuenta
sadorto SovietUnion,senatorfromSonora
affos de dpera en Mdtxico:.testimonio
and finally head of Pemex, Diaz Serrano
served time in prisonbecause of accusation
operistico.Mexico: Universidad Nacional
Aut6nomade Mexico, 1978.326 p.
of corruptionin company.Outspokenin atGenre:Memoirs
titude towards politicalsystem and a self-
made individual, he speaks of public life

ratherthan private.
portraits emerge of Frida Kahlo and

Carmen Jaime, members of the "cachuchas." (q.v.128 and 134).
93. Domecq, Brianda.(1942-) De cuerpoentero.:Brianda Domecq. M6xico: Ediciones 97. Dromundo,Baltasar. (1906-) Rescatedel
Corunda,1991.60 p.
tiempo.Mexico: ImprentaMadero, 1980.
Genre:Memoirs
180 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Bornin U.S., Domecq has lived in adopted
WriterDromundore-presentshimself in a
countryMexicosince 1951.Novelist,short
mosaicof 161briefchapterseach centering
story writerand essayist, she profiles maaround person, event, or experience.
jor influences on her as a writer: underDromundoknewmanyof famousMexicans
standinggrandmotherwho enjoyedchild's
fantasies,college literaturecourses which
vignettedin anecdotes.
first stimulated her, and love of Mexico
whichmadeher masterlanguage.Domecq 98. Echeverria,Alicia. (1910?-)De burguesaa
has originalsense of humor.
guerrillera/memoriasdeAlicia Echeverria.
M6xico:JoaquinMortiz, 1986.154 p.
94. Domingo, Placido. (1941-) Mis primeros
Genre:Autobiography
cuarenta afos. Pr6logo de Antonio
traducci6ndel ingles por
AliciaEcheverriacoverslifewithintrospecFernaindez-Cid;
Barcelotion and honesty in negativerevelationsof
JuanAntonioGutierrez-Layrraya.
na:Planeta,1984. 185 p.
familylife. Daughter,wife, mother,grandBornin Madrid,Domingomovedwith parmotherandconfidante,Echeverriaexperients to Mexicoin 1949.In adoptedcountry,
enced all roles of women;student,teacher,
he attendedhigh schoolat InstitutoMexico
writerbusinesswomen,foreignerandguerand studied music at National Conservarillafighter,she experiencedroles beyond
traditionalwoman.In clearstyle she develtory. Authorfocuses on successful opera
careerin Americas,Europeand Israeland
ops life from comfortable childhood in
Michoacin,to povertyandignorant,sadisspendingfew words on familyor personal
life.
tic nunsin U.S.parochialschools,to middle
class survivalin Veracruz,to marriageand
95. Dominguez,Rafael.(1883?-)Aforanzasdel
Mexico City and finally to Guatemalan
guerrillamovement.Highlightswomen-tolnstituto 7udrez."Mexico:EditorialCultuwomen relationships.
ra, 1940.201 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1897
99. Elizondo, Salvador. (1932-) Elsinore. utn
Writerdrawsforth personalitiesof profescuaderno.Mexico:Edicionesdel Equilibrissors and classmates in nostalgiafor high
ta, 1988.51 p.
school years in Tabasco. Curricula and
Genre:Memoirs
events perhaps typical of generation of
Periodcovered:1947?
Porfiriato.
As teenager,writerspent several years in
militaryschool nearLakeElsinore,Califor96. Dromundo, Baltasar.(1906-) Mi calle de
nia. He includes typical pranks of cadets
Mexico:EditorialGuarania,
San Zldefonso.
who abuserules of institutionandrecreates
1956.263 p.
mood of post-warLosAngeles.
Genre:Memoirs
100.EpistolariodeMiguelAntonioCaroy Rufino
Writer, politician, lawyer and orator in
JosdCuervoconRafaelAngelDe La Peday
Vasconceloscampaign,Dromundoentered
otros mexicanos.(1837-1906-Lifeyears of
Escuela Nacional Preparatoriain 1923.
De LaPefia)Bogoti:InstitutoCaroy CuerMemoirspaytributeto school andgeneravo, 1983.473 p.
Genre:Letters
tion that achievedautonomyof university.
With nostalgia he evokes neighborhood,
De LaPefia,scholarof linguisticsandmemfaculty, courses, classmates, books and
ber of MexicanAcademy,sustainedcorrepopularcultureof students.Sharplydrawn
spondencewith Caroand Cuervo,two Colombian scholars of Spanish. Discussing

mainlyphilologicalthemes,exchangelacks
intimacyandfamiliarityof PedroHenriquez
Urefia/AlfonsoReyescorrespondence(q.v.
149).
Mazatec Indian Maria traces major contours of life, parents,marriages,and children and she evokes much of culturalcontext of village. Healer consuming mushrooms and havingvisions, Mariarefers to
spiritworldandits benevolentor evil influence on man.
101.Escobedo, Jose G. ( ? ) La batalla de

Zacatecas(treintaydosafos despusz).Mdxi- 105.Farias,LuisM. (1920-) Asilo recuerdo.:
tesco, 1946. 123 p.
timoaiospoliticos.Mexico:Fondode CultuGenre:Memoirs
ra Econ6mica,1992.349 p.
Periodcovered:1914
Genre:Memoirs
JournalistJose G. Escobedo recalls when
Constitutionalistforces with PanchoVilla,
Regiomontano,lawyer, senator, majority
leaderin senate,memberof PRIsince 1951
FelipeAngeles and PainfiloNateratried to
andradioandt.v.commentator,LuisFarias
dislodge Victoriano Huerta, usurper of
follows traditionalformatof memoir sharpresidency. Escobedo records taking of
Zacatecas.
ing only key momentsof life. Unlikeother
memoirists,Fariaswritesto expose howpo102.Espejo,Beatriz.(1938-) De cuerpoentero:.
liticalsystem functions.
Mexico:EdicionesCorunda,
BeatrizEspejo.
1991.58 p.
106.Fariasy Alvarezdel Castillo,Ixca. (1874Genre:AutobiographicalEssay
1948) Casos y cosas de mis tiempos.
Mexico:ConsejoMunicipalde
Guadalajara,
ShortstorywriterBeatrizEspejospeaksof
EditorialAgata,1992.239 p.
Guadalajara:
Genre:Memoir
gentle childhood: parents and grandparPeriodcovered:1880-1936?
ents, church,servants,education,reading
and travel.
Inspectorof colonialmonuments,Director
of Museum of Guadalajara
and founderof
103.Espinoza Valle, Victor Alejandro. (1907open air painting school, Farias sporadiBirthyearofValleCastafieda)Don Crispin,
cally incorporatesyouth in clusteringimuna crdnicafronteriza.:memoriaydidlogos
of Porfiriato.Inages on gentle Guadalajara
de don Crispfn ValleCasteffeda.Tijuana,
dependentchapterson schools, personalities, Chapala,1903 Ateneo, bullfighting,
BajaCalifornia:El Colegio de la Frontera
Norte, 1990. 166 p.
fiestas, and arrival of railroad elicit a
costumbrista
in directdialogue
Guadalajara
with reader.Fariasis professionalwriter.
Bornin Estanzuela,Zacatecas,don Crispin
workedon railways39 years on SanDiego- 107.Fell, Claude. (1882-1959-Life years of
Yumarouteanddictatedmemoirsto grandVasconcelos; 1889-1959- Life years of
son. Crispinnotes evolutionof railwaywork
entre
Reyes)Escritsoublies.:
correspondance
andimpressionsof bordercities of Nogales,
JosieVasconceloset AlfonsoReyes.Mexico:
CiudadJuarez, Mexicali and Tijuana. A
Institutfrancaisd'AmeriqueLatione,1976.
unionman,he also advocatedstatehoodfor
198 p. (Forgotten Writings: Correspondence between Jose Vasconcelos and
BajaCalifornia.Finaltwochaptersrelateto
border culture and his experiences as
AlfonsoReyes)
folkhealer.
Genre:Writings
104.Estrada,Alvaro(1895?-Birthyear of Maria
Vasconcelos and Reyes exchange letters
andnotes. Smallcollection,49 in totalwith
Sabina) Maria Sabina,; Her Life and
37 from Vasconcelos and 12 from Reyes
Chants/Written
by AlvaroEstrada;translation and commentaries by Henry Munn.
spanactiveyears of writers.Topicsinclude
SantaBarbara:Ross-Erikson,C. 1981.238
publications,mutualacquaintancessuch as
PedroHenriquezUrefiaandAntonioCaso,
p.
and many cultural items. Postmarked
Mexico andSpain,letters exude frankness
of two close friends.
nar (Perfl de una Wpoca).Guadalajara,

Mexico:Universidadde Guadalajara,
1986.
165p.
Genre:Memoirs
Surgeon from Guadalajara,Delfino Gallo
minglesmedicaltopicswithautobiography:
medical school, conferences, operations
and realizationof buildingof sanitariumof
Guadalajara.
108.Flores, Edmundo. (1918-) Historias de

EdmundoFlores.:
1950-1973.
autobiografia,
Vol.IL Mexico:EditorialPosada,1986.
Genre:Autobiography
Second of projectedtrilogy,volume II corresponds to variouspresidentseconomist
Flores served: Miguel Alemain, L6pez
Mateos, Diaz Ordaz and Echeverria
Alvarez.Frankandintimatein relatingper- 113. Gamboa,Joaquin. (1911-1949) Memorias
sonallife,he also describesworkin agriculde un locutor. Mexico: Ediciones Botas,
ture and teaching.
1949.235 p.
Genre:Memoirs
109.FrancoSodja,Carlos.(1917-1957-Life
years
of Pedro Infante). Lo que me dijo Pedro
Gamboaserved as war correspondentfor
Infante.Mexico:EditoresAsociados,1977.
Mexicanmagazine"Hoy."
As announcerin
120 p.
London representing BBC branch in
Mexico City,he interrelatescareerandimPeriodcovered:1917-1957
pressions of British.
AuthorFrancoSodjacreated posthumous
autobiographybased on research and re- 114.Gaona, Rafael. (1925-) De cuerpoentero:.
membered conversations with Infante.
RafaelGaona.Mexico:EdicionesCorunda,
Weak on orality,"memoir"belongs to as1991.58 p.
told-to-anothercategory. Singer/actor in
Genre:Memoirs
anecdotalform elicits family,film and love
affairs.
Novelist concentrates on youth: parents,
grandmother,books,schooling,composing
110.FrancoTorrijos,Enrique. (1930-) Odisea
poetry,AlfonsoReyes,andemployment.He
en
una
inidita
de
ends memoirs with departurefor Mexico
Bonampak."narracidn 1950. 154
azarosa
p.
Cityin 1945.
expedicidn.Mexico,
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1950?
115.Garcia Cumplido, Guadalupe Gracia.
old
author
with
ten
(1881-1948). Autobiografia,narraciones,
along
Twenty-year
membersof GrupoAlpinoInmexssal(Club
documentosdey por elDr. GuadalupeGracia Garcia Cumplido.Mexico: Ramirez
Excursionista de Empleados del Seguro
Social)visit Bonampakin Chiapas,home of
Editores,1982.481 p.
Lacandones.Use of "I"and"We"to narrate
Genre:Memoirs
travel incidents and anthropology lends
Penniless lad from Durango graduates
personaltone.
from National School of Medicine in
111.Fuentes Mares, Jose. (1918-1986). IntraMexico City and serves in Carrancista
medicalcorpsas Carrancistauntil1916.He
vagario.Mexico: EditorialGrijalbo,1986.
187 p.
either taught or served as programdirecGenre:Memoirs
tor of militarymedicine.
Born in ChihuahuaCity, Fuentes Mares 116.GarciaG., Rodolfo.( ? ) Entre dos estacaowas rector of University of Chihuahua,
ns. Toluca,Mexico:Graficarte,1986.115p.
Genre:Memoirs
founderof newspaper"Novedadesde ChiPeriodcovered:1925?-1955?
huahua,"and authorof books on Mexican
Nostalgicview ofTolucaandrailroadingby
history. He evokes university days in
Mexico City in 1930s and praisesAntonio
son of divisionforeman.Suggestsidylliclife
Caso. Books dominatesecond part.
of smallcapitalin post-Porfirian
years:theater with silent films, church, animals,
112.Gallo,Delfino. ( ?) Las huelas de micamifiestas, family, school and train routes.
Among evocation of past, Garcia autobiographizeseducationand beginnings as

journalist/writer, years as director of libraryand selection of careerin teaching.
ed] Mexico,J.M.[ortiz,1965] 182p.

Genre:Memoirs
Short story writer,poet, essayist andjournalist, Garibay in Beber in cdliz draws
heavilyon talentsas poet.In accountof agonizing death of father, he recovers own
emotional responses in poetic imagery.
Father,as nucleus of memoir,catalyzesreactionof family.
117. GarciaIcazbalceta,Joaquin. (1825-1894)

CartasdeJoaquinGarciaZcazbalceta
aJosti
FerndndezRamirez,JoseMaria deAgreda,
Manuel Orozcoy Berra, Nicolds Ledn,
AgustinFischer,Aquiles Gerset,Francisco
delPasoy Troncoso.Comp.y anotadaspor
Felipe Texidor. Mexico: Porriia, 1937. 121. Garizurieta,Cesar.(1904-1961) Untrompo
baila en el cielo.Mexico:Ediciones Botas,
433 p.
Genre:Letters
1942.102 p.
Genre:Memoirs
andcollectorof docuPeriodcovered:1909?-1915?
Historian/biographer
ments of colonial period. IcazbalcetaeviNovel/autobiography,Untrompopoetically
dences intellectualinterests in correspondraws forth childhoodin Veracruz.Much
dence with humanists, historians or
of worldevolves aroundchild'sdreamsand
booklovers. Dedicated to life of mind, he
storytellingofilliteratealbeitoldercompannotes managementof haciendasor familial
ion. Autobiographyof imaginationcomplements more materialworld delineated in
problems.LetterofApril10, 1893to Nicolais
Recuerdosde un niW'o
Le6n, his major correspondent, betrays
depantaldnlargo.
sufferinghumanbeing more than man of
122. Garmabella,Jose Ram6n.(1910-1978-Life
letters.
years of QuirozCuar6n)Dr AlfonsoQuiroz
sus mejorescasosde criminologia.
118. Garcia Riera, Emilio. (1929-) El cine es
Cuardn."
Mexico:
EditorialDiana,1980. 197p.
me/or que la vida. Mexico: Cal y Arena,
1990. 175 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
First professionaldetectiveof Mexico and
author of various books on criminology,
AlthoughSpanishborn, GarciaRiera,prolific movie critic,has lived in Mexico since
QuirozCuar6ndictatesmemoirs.Spending
1939. Three parts of memoirs, "Vida,"
short time on childhood,birth in Chihuahua and father's homicide, he narrates
"Cine,"and"Lapolitica,"withcarefulreadmost interesting cases, assassination of
ing surrenderautobiographicaldata:family, school (frustrationwith school of ecoTrotsky and search for identity of Bruno
Traven.
nomics), return to Spain, Dominican Reand
career.
public
123.Garza,Catarino.(1859-1902?)"Memorias
119. Garcia Roel, Adriana. (1916-) Apuntes
de Catarino E. Garza" in En busca de
riberekos.Monterrey:Sistemasy Servicios
CatarinoGarzaby Celso GarzaGuajardo.
Mexico: UniversidadAut6nomade Nuevo
Tkcnicos,1955.299 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Le6n, 1989.145 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1950?
From Monterrey,Nuevo Le6n, journalist
From Tamaulipas, Garza,journalist and
AdrianaGarciaRoel praises more relaxed
anti-Diazrevolutionary,spent life both in
atmosphereofTampico,Tamaulipas.More
than traveler,she immersed self in life of
Mexico and U.S. Workingfor newspapers
in Laredo,Eagle Pass, CorpusChristiand
port city fusing description with contact
withnativesandforeigners.Anecdotesand
SanAntonio,Garzain 1891led revolutionforaysintoliteraturebothvary andproporary/banditforce into Mexico.Memoirsgo
tion reading.
beyond traditionof mere descriptionand
travelfor polemicalGarzapermeateseach
120.Garibay,Ricardo.(1923-)Beberuncdliz.[1.
chapterin perhapsearliestMexican/Mexican Americanlifewritingfor Garzanotes
injusticeon either side of border.
G6mez studied from 1909 to 1914 at San

Jacinto,NationalSchoolof Agriculture.He
reacts to classmates,teachers,studies and
Revolutionin terse accountof agricultural
school from end of Porifirato through
Huerta. He encapsulateseach incidentor
personalityin anecdote.
124. GarzaH., Luis Lauro (1927-Birthyear of

Juan de la Rosa Tellez) Cristalquebrado:
testimonio de un vidriero regiomontano.
Mexico, D.E: Siglo Veintiuno Editores,
1988.252 p.
128. G6mezArias,Alejandro.(1906-1990)MePeriodcovered:?
moriapersonalde unpats con VictorDiaz
Subject gives point of view of laborer for
craft and for relations with management.
Arciniega.Mexico:Grijalbo,1990.293 p.
JuanDe la RosaTellez, glassworker,labor
organizer, baseball player and prisoner,
tells story to LuisGarzawho explainstechLawyer,professor,orator,admirerof Jose
Vasconcelos,and one of foundersof Popuniques in recordinglife of other.
lar Party (PPS), G6mez Arias with editor
Victor Diaz Arciniegahas producedsatis125.GarzaRios,Celso. (1912-) La huellade mis
fying memoirs: presence of personality,
pasos por las callesy barriosde mi pueblo.
Sabinas Hidalgo, N.L.: Ediciones Minas
superbdescriptionof universityyears with
attentionto AntonioCaso, desire to interViejas, 1989.54 p.
Genre:Memoirs
pret ratherthan merely describe, and tenPeriodcovered:1912-1976
dency to be succinct (q.v.96, 134). MethDictatedby unschooled authorto various
odology in introduction.
members of family,memoirsform part of
popularhistory as indicatedby son in pro- 129. Gonzalez,Agustin. (1859-1926)Memorias
de mi vida.Toluca:Cuadernosdel Estado
logue. '"Thisis the history of a man in his
de Mexico, 1957.238 p.
time and his circumstances of his will to
live" (p. 1).Proletariat,GarzaRioswas disGenre:Memoirs
enchanted with Revolutionand its ostensible acts on behalfof his class.
Traditionof cuadrosde costumbres
present
here. Born in Tlalnepantla in state of
126.Glantz, Margo. (1930-) Las genealogias.
Mexico,Gonzilezwritesof Frenchinvasion
from 1864to 1866butmoreimportantlyhe
Mexico:MartinCasillasEditores,1981.246p.
harkensbackto earlyschooling.Outsideof
Genre:Memoirs
VictorianoSaladoAlvarez,no other MexiPeriodcovered:1850?-1981
can has concentratedas muchon education
Glantz creates hybrid genre in Las
as Gonzalez.Stylisticallyhe excels as memgenealogiasfor althoughshe directs attention mainlyto parentsand RussianJewish
oirists of 19thcentury.
to
she
and
background adjustment Mexico,
unfolds self in interactionwith familyand 130. GonzalezCedillo,Guillermo.(?) "Cuatro
in ConZapaenvironment.Time,recapturedin shardsof
pueblosen la luchazapatista."
parents'conversationsandmonologues,is
tay Villa.:tresrelatostestimoniales.Mexico:
InstitutoNacionalde Estudios Hist6ricos
vague.Alwayssecondaryto their lives and
de la Revoluci6n,1991.48 p.
prompterof memories, author forms life
Genre:Memoirs
through schooling, family's ambulatory
Period covered:1900-1919?
existence, her Jewishness andvisit to New
York.Organizedandstructuredmemoirsin
GonzilezCedilloencompassesfourvillages
on Lake Texcoco: San Sebastian
spite of non-chronologicalapproach and
uniformstyle.
Tecolixtitlan, Santa Maria Aztahuacin,
Santa Marta Acatitla, and Santiago
127.G6mez, Marte Rodolfo. (1896-1973)
Acahualtepec.Two women from villages
workedin home of PorfirioDiaz and went
Anecdotariode SanJacinto.Mexico:Libreinto exile with him to Parisin 1911.Much
ria de M. Porria, 1958. 148p.
Genre:Memoirs
of narrationrefers to Zapata.
Born in Cuidad Reynosa, Tamaulipas,
131.GonzdlezFlores,Manuel.(1907-1972) zna
pareja de tantos. Mexico: Editorial
"Yolotepec,"1950.285 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1930s
Lawyer,writer, and translator,Gonzalez
Flores recounts adventuresas laborer in
Chicagoin 1930s.Commentsambivalently
on U.S. environmentand on types of Mexicans who live here. Authorvisits Langston
Hughes in New YorkCitybeforereturning
to Mexico.
True
ofSome
LandofEnchantment.'A Story
of/theFirst Spanish-SfeakingNatives and
EarlySettlersof San Mi'guelCounty,TerritoryofNewMexico.(s.l.) :A Griego,c. 1981.
Genre:Memoirs
New MexicanHispanotracesrootsbackto
early 19thcenturyin idyl of villagelife and
family.Livingoff land,Griegofamilyincarnates typeof Hispanicexistence thatlasted
into 20th century.As much as autobiograis costumbristic
and qualifies
phy, Good-bye
as Mexicanfor its pre GuadalupeHidalgo
portrayal.
132.GonzalezPefia,Carlos.(1885-1955)Elfatio bajo la luna. Mexico: EditorialStylo,

136.GuerraLeal,Mario.(?) Lagrilla. Mexico:
1945.242 p.
Genre:Memoirs
EditorialDiana,1978.389 p.
Genre:Memoirs
author
evokes
and
Period
covered:1947-1977?
Poetically
nostalgically,
childhoodin series of essays on Lagos de
Journalist,lawyerandpolitician,authorhas
been intimatewith politics for over thirty
Moreno,his birthplacein Jalisco.Novelist,
journalistandliterarycritic,he transforms
years:presidentof Federaci6ndel Partidos
del PuebloMexicano,Secretaryof General
fairs,houses, walks, church bells and music throughprismof time.
Henriquez Guzmin, president of Partido
Nacional Anticomunistaand presidential
133.Gonzdilez
candidate for Partido Dem6cratico.
Pefia,Carlos.(1885-1955)Portierras de Italia, Portugaly Espada.Mexico:
CristianoMarioGuerraLealanalyzespolitiEditorialConstancia,1952.294 p.
cal system more than other memoirists.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1951
137. Guerra Leal, Mario. ( ? ) Mds alld de la
Novelistand literarycritic,GonzalezPefia
grilla. Mexico:EditorialDiana,1984.153p.
narratestripthroughthree countries.Work
Genre:Memoirs
is sufficientlysubjectiveto be labelled auPeriodcovered:1950-1979
Lawyerandcriticof politicalsystem, Mario
tobiographyrather than guide book, but
much less evocativethan El patio bajo la
GuerraLealdescribes imprisonmentin el
ReclusorioPreventivoNorte. Imagesof faluna (q.v.132).
voritesamongpresidentsrarelyharmonize
134.Gonzalez Ramirez,Manuel. (1907?-) Rewith official histories. Although action
takesplacemainlyin 1970s,GuerraLealrecuerdosde un preparatorianode siempre.
Mexico: UniversidadNacionalAut6noma
flects upon earlierdecades of history.
de Mexico, 1982. 143p.
Genre:Memoirs
138. Guerrero,Euquerio. (1907-) Imdgenesde
mi vida. Mexico: EditorialPorrfia, 1986.
297 p.
Lawyer, man of letters and professor,
Gonzalez Ramirez belonged to the
Genre:Memoirs
"Cachuchas,"
gang of classmateswithbrilliant careers: Alejandro G6mez Arias,
Lawyer,professor,writer,rectorof UniverMiguel N. Lira, Jose G6mez Robleda,
sity of Guanajuato,supremecourt justice,
Alfonso
Rios y
and senator, Guerrero was born in
JesIs Villa, Agustin Lira,
Valles, Carmen Jaime and Frida Kahlo.
Guanajuato.RepresentinggovernmentunAuthorcreates intellectualambience that
der PresidentLuisEcheverria,he traveled
nurturedgenerationincludingprofessors
to Europe,South Americaand regions of
andideas. He capturesspiritof prepschool
Muslimworld. In 1979 he began working
of 1920s(q.v.96, 128).
for InstitutoNacionalde la Senectud (National Institutefor Aged). Memoirsare as
135.Griego, Alfonso. (1906-) Goody-byeMy
much of place as of person.
GuerraCristera
B. Costa-Amic,
139.Guerrero,Salvador.(1919-) Memorias,a
y... MdNxico:
1976. 172p.
WestTexasLifeedited by Arnoldode Le6n.
Genre:Memoirs
Texas Tech UniversityPress, 1991.126 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Militantcristero,GuizarOceguerafirstiniPeriodcovered:1915-1989
tiates reader into history of cristeroswho
Bornin Coahuilain 1917,authorspentfirst
favoredchurchagainstgovernmentmainly
seven years of life in Mexico. Because of
inJalisco,Michoacin,Colima(el Bajio)and
Revolution,family moved to Villa Acufia
Zacatecas.Muchof actioncentersin Cotija,
andfinallyto SanAngelo,Texas. Guerrero
Michoacanwhere authorhelps foundLiga
is success story of Mexicanimmigrantwho
Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa. He
survived in Anglo culture: segregated
evaluates results of Cristero movement
schools, Protestantism,high school gradufrom perspectiveof 50 years.
ation,WWIIand armyandcivic leadership
in Odessa,Texas. Activein G.I.Forum,he
was also radio host and county commis- 143.Gurri6n,EvaristoC. (1879-1913)Memorias
sioner.
que, a grandes rasgos escribeEvaristo C
Gurridnacercade la vidapoliticadesu her140.Guerrero Tarquin,Alfredo. (1909-1983)
manoAdolfodelmismoapelido.Mexico:H.
dela vida
Memoriasde un agrarsta.-pasajes
AyuntamientoPopularde Juchiftin,Oax.,
1983.43 p.
de un hombrey de toda una regidndel estaGenre:Memoirs
do de Guanajuato,1913-1938). Mexico:
InstitutoNacionalde Antropologiae HistoAuthor
involves self and familyin render2
v.
1987.
ria,
Genre:Memoirs
ing life and details of martyred brother
AdolfoC. Gurri6n.Frompoorfamilyand a
school teacher, he opposed dictatorship
First of three-volumeautobiography,comandcorrespondedforanarchistnewspaper,
aid
of
three
comwith
anthropologists
piled
In 1913,Federalstookhim
municateslife of self-taughtman of people
"Regeneraci6n."
from prison and shot him. Remainderof
who witnessed lateryears of revolutionary
book enumerateshonors paidto Adolfoin
process in home state. GuerreroTarquin
was presidentemunicipal(mayor?)of San
Juchitain.
Luis de la Paz and also secretary general
andtreasurerof tworuralorganizations.In 144.Gutierrez, CarmenA. (?-1960?) Mujeres
landredistribution(the ejido),local hostilpresbiterianasdeMdxico.Kingsville,Texas:
of
moveideals
such
as
Imprentade la EscuelaPresbiterianaPanaity
crsterosinhibited
ment.VolumeIIcontinuesstruggleforland
mericana,1964.39 p.
Genre:Memoirs
reform.
141.GuerreroTarquin,Alfredo. (1909-1983)
Presbyterian minister born in Jiliapan,
Reminiscenciasde un viaje a traves de la
Hidalgo.Gutierrezserved as a counselorto
Uni6n Nacional Presbiteriana de SocieSierra GordaporXich y Ataryea.Mexico:
dades Femeninas,an organizationheaded
InstitutoNacionalde Antropologiae Historia, 1988.355 p.
by his wife.Paraphrasefromhimgives both
Genre:Memoirs
purposeandtone of book. He admireswife
and other Presbyterianwomen who work
Periodcovered:1938
to honor the Lord. He mingles autobioAfterevents of Memorias(q.v.140) author
graphicaldatawith praise for women and
inspectsagrariancommunitiesin indicated
with fervorfor religion.
geographical area. As stated in introduction, "He narrates the situation that he
finds.The new agrarianpoliciesareseen as 145.Gutikrrezde Mendoza,JuanaBelhn.(1875reflectedin places he visits. But narration
1942) "Autobiografia:Apuntes"in Juana
goes beyondthis in thatit constitutesan inBeldn Gutidrrezde Mendoza,1875-1942."
troduction to the region that makes the
Extraordinaria
precursorade la Revolucidn
readerfeel he has been there."(p.7)
MdximexicanadeAngelesMendietaAlatorre.
co: Impresoresde Morelos,1983.36 p.
Genre:Memoirs
142.GuizarOceguera,Jos&.( ? )Episodiosde la
Fascinating self taught woman from San
Juan del Rio, Durango Gutierrez de
Mendozasold goats in 1901in orderto buy
printingpress and denounce dictatorship.
In spite of harassmentby authorities,she
going,reinitiating
keptnewspaper"VWsper"
it three different times. Friend of Flores
Mag6ns and member of Liberal Party
Ponciano Arriaga, Juana Belen was deported.
cally, letters are postmarked Mexico,

MadridMexico-Paris,Manhattan-Madrid,
Paris, Madrid-BuenosAires, and MadridRio de Janeiro. Guzmin wrote 62 letters;
Reyes,43. Correspondencediscloses more
of personalityof Guzmin,a strugglingwriters in exile to his "mentor"Reyes, always
compassionate and full of advice. Reyes,
detailingantipathyforpolitics,pennedbest
and most autobiographicalletters in 1930
fromRiode Janeiro.Curielsuperblyedited
collection.
146.Guzmain,Eulalia.(1890-) Lo que vi andol.

149.HenriquezUrefia,Pedro. (1889-1959-Life
Mexico:Tip. SAG,s.d.R.L.,1941. 123p.
Genre:Memoirs
dates of Reyes) Epistolariointimo, 1906Periodcovered:1936-1939
1946/PedroHenr4quezUredaandAlfonso
School teacher and archeologist, Eulalia
Reyes.Santo Domingo: UNPHU, 1981. 3
vols.
Guzmin, commissioned by Alfonso Caso
Genre:Letters
andJose Vasconcelos,madeseveraltripsto
Europeon behalfof Mexicanculture.Upon
As prologue states, "This collection conreturningto Mexico in 1940,she recorded
of
reactions
to
tains the correspondenceof an entire life
European
impressions
Mussolini and to Hitler. Anecdotal, vithat crossed between Pedro Henriquez
Urefia and Alfonso Reyes, two glories of
gnettes of fascist Europesuggest indignation of free worldtowardsaggression preSpanish Americanletters and thought of
our century."(p.5)Reyeslays baremore of
cipitatingWWII.Collectedarticles form a
self than in autobiographies, Albores y
type of memoir.
Parentalia. Postmarked Cuba, Spain,
147.Guzmain,Humberto. (1948-) De cuerpo
France, Argentinaand Brazil,letters disGuzmdn.Mexico:Edicioclose mainly intellectuallife but also porentero.-Humberto
nes Corunda,1990.63 p.
traysfamily,surroundingsandopinionson
Genre:Memoirs
politicalevents both abroadandin Mexico.
Novelist and short story writer,Guzmain 150.Hernandez,OctavioAndres.(1917-) Entre
la vistay la nada.:Losprimeros97Zdiasde
disclosesself in innertitleof autobiography,
"Confesiones de una sombra (...o de una
mi negra negrura.Mexico: Miguel Angel
generaci6n)."Clearlyin pessimistic book
Porruia,1987.335 p.
his writingself is darkshadow.In locating
Genre:Memoir
writingI, at times self distortedin halluciWith congenital eye problem, jurist was
nation, Guzmin confesses little of family
unableto receive normaleducation.Howbutmuchon unfairimprisonmentandtreatmentin Acapulcojail;prisonchaptersinterever, even self taught, he managedto acweave with 1968 Tlateloco observed by
quiresufficientlearningto become lawyer.
He relives 97 days of blindness. Much
nine-year-old writer. Both experiences,
menacingandvictimizing,formcore of auphilosophical dialogue as in thoughts on
suicide.
tobiography.
148.Guzmin,MartinLuis. (1887-1976)Medias 151.Hidalgoy Esnaurrizar,
Jose Manuel.(1826Edihombre
de
mundo
escribesus im1913-1959.
1896)
correspondencia
[I#
palabras."
ci6n, pr6logo (epistolar),notas y apdndice
presiones,cartas.Mexico:EditorialPorria,
documentalde FernandoCuriel.Mexico:
1960.424 p.
UniversidadNacionalAut6nomade MdxiGenre:Memoirs
co, 1991.205 p.
Genre:Letters
Althoughwrittenas letters,collectionactuPeriodcovered:1913-1959
ally suits characteristicsof memoir.Jose
Arrangedchronologicallyand geographiHidalgo,whose Spanishfather prospered
under Iturbide,was Secretaryof Mexican

Legation in France. He and other aristocratic exiles connivedto stem republicanism in Mexico by imposing a European
monarch. Hidalgo moved in best circles
writing gossipy letters about royalty and
fellowemigres.Recordof culturedMexican
in Europe.
Mexico:EditorialGalache,1984.329 p.
Genre:Memoirs
MuchthatIduartewritesis autobiography.
He collects biographical sketches published between 1961and 1971.As humanist scholarandteacherof SpanishAmerican
literatureat ColumbiaUniversity,Iduarte
personallyknew many of intellectualcontemporaries usually from Americas. In
sketching them, he presents self leaving
datathroughremnantsof autobiographical
out 42 pieces.
152.Huerta,Elena. (1908-) Alcirculo se cierra.

Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico: Universidad
Aut6nomade Coahuila,1990. 198 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Telephoneoperator,unionorganizer,artist, 156.IsunzaAguirre,Agustin. (1917?-?)Ateneo
de mis mocedades.Mexico:EdicionesAsoMarxist,painter,worldtravelerandmother,
Elena Huerta led exciting life. Born in
ciaci6n Regional de Ateneistas del D.F.,
1959. 140 p.
Saltilloat end of Porfiriato,she traveledto
Genre:Memoirs
U.S., Scandinaviancountries,China,Cuba
and Soviet Union. A determined woman,
she was successful due to own initiative.
IsunzaAguirrenostalgicallyviews adolescent years in Saltillo's Ateneo Fuente
School in Saltilloand sympatheticallypor153.Ibargtiengoitia,Jorge. (1928-1983)Autopsias rdpidas; selecci'dn de Guillermo
trayscurriculum,professors,schoolchums
and self. Covershistory of Ateneo Fuente
Sheridan.Mexico,D.E:Vuelta,1988.290 p.
in first two chapters.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:
Posthumouscollectionof selected articles 157.Juirez, Benito. (1806-1872)Correspondencia Judrez-Santacilia1858-1867 Mexico:
written by Ibarguengoitiabetween 1969
and 1976 for "Excelesior."Unintendedas
Secretariade Marina,1972.425 p.
Genre:Letters
autobiography, selection functions as
in
he
because
editorial
Period
covered:1858-1867
lifewriting
essays
makes knownmuch of self: family,career,
Juirez wrotelettersof officialnatureto sonfilm criticism,relationshipswith literature
in-lawand secretary,Pedro Santaciliadurandhow he writes."Confesionesde un 'Boy
ing difficultdecade of Intervention.OccaScout"'most autobiographical.Pervasive
sionally compassionate family man
humorand sarcasm.
emerges. CollectioncomplementsApuntes
para mis hijos.
154.Ibargiiengoitia,Jorge. (1928-1983)La casa
de ustedy otros viajes. Mexico: Joaquin 158.Kelley, Jane Holden. ( ? ) Yaqui Women.Mortiz, 1991.338 p.
LifeHistories.Lincoln:UniContemporary
Genre:Memoirs
versity of NebraskaPress, 1978.265 p.
Ibarguengoitiaautobiographizessporadicallyin thirdandfinalcollectionofjournals
KelleycollaboratedwithRosalioMoises on
editedby GuillermoSheridan.Alwayswith
TallCandleandalso composedoralautobicaustichumor,journalistlocatesself inwritographies of four Yaquiwomen. Techniings. LikeSalvadorNovo, he makes travel
cally biographiesdue to third person narration,these differlittlefrom"I"narratives.
writinga formof autobiographyby not distancing himself from foreign experience
BalancingYaquiculture/historywith indiwith guide-book prose. In centering on
vidualpersonality,Kelleydiscusses anthroMexico City, Acapulco and Revolution
pologicalformatandtechniquein first 113
pages.
throughfamily'shacienda,he bringsforth
self.
159.Krauze,Ethel. (1954-) De Cuerpo
Entero."
155.Iduarte,Andr~s.(1907-1984)Semblanzas.
EthelKrauze.Mexico:EdicionesCorunda,
163.LemusOlvera,Rafael.(1955-) Cuandolas
1990.57 p.
Genre:Memoirs
puertas se abren.Mexico: EditorialOasis,
1984.63 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Krauzetraces immediateJewish ancestry
from czaristRussiato Mexico. In YiddishPeriodcovered:1983
Memoirof 1983journalismstudentbrutally
Spanish environmentyoung writer introducesfamily,butmainlove is Maria,Indianarrestedby (DIPD)Direcci6nde Investigaciones para la Prevenci6n de la DelinMexican Catholicmaid. Forced to attend
cuencia.Accusedof plottingto kidnap,but
Jewishschool,Krauzeresentsher heritage.
withno substantiatingevidence,authorwas
in detentionfor six days.
160.Larbaud,Valery. (1881-1957-Lifeyears of
Reyes) Correspondance,
1923-1952.:Valery
Larbaud,Alfonso Reyes,;avant-froaposde 164. Lefiero,Vicente. (1933-) De cuerpoentero."
et notes de
Vicente Ledero. Mexico: Ediciones
Marcel Bataillon, introd.
Paulette Patout. Paris: Didier, 1972. 328
Corunda,1992.56 p.
Genre:Memoirs
p. (Correspondence, 1923-1952: Valery
Larbaud,Alfonso Reyes; with preface by
"Scenesfromthe Lifeof a Writer"subtitles
MarcelBataillon)
Genre:Letters
autobiographyof dramatist.With humor
Lefierorecoversearly experiences at writing, motivebehind drama,"Losalbafiiles,"
Reyes wrote 26 to ValeryLarbaud,French
novelistandcreatorof SouthAmericanmiland friendshipwith ManuelPuig. Debunklionairetravelingin Europe.Valueof collecing sainthood of Juan Jose Arreola,Juan
RulfoandGabrielGarciaMirquez,he notes
tion, in additionto Reyes's love of literary
themes anddelightin friendship,resides in
hierarchyamongwritersespeciallyin relations with CarmenBarcells.
uniqueness of epistolary exchange between Reyes andcorrespondentfromnonMdxi165.Lefiero,Vicente.(1933-)Vivirdelteatro.
Hispanicculture.
co:Editorial
JoaquinMortiz,1982.255p.
161. Leal,Felicitos. (1918-Birthyear of Godoy)
Genre:Memoirs
EmmaGodoyen vivo.Mexico:EditorialJus,
1990.241 p.
Playwrightspeaksfranklyof experiencesin
theater.Behind-the-scenesview privileges
readerto gestationandfruitionof Lefiero's
Poet and novelist, Godoy in as-told-to-anmajor productions: "Pueblo rechazado,"
other autobiographyconcerns self more
"Losalbafiiles,""Eljuicio,""Loshijos de
with values and existentialthoughts than
Sanchez,"etc.
concrete reality.Leal,conscientiousof position of autobiographer of another, ex- 166. Lefiero,Vicente. (1935-) Vivirdelteatro
ll
Mexico:EditorialJ. Mortiz,1990.224 p.
plains use of Godoy'svoice which carries
narration. Interrogator and recorder of
Genre:Memoirs
Godoy,Lealtapedlast decade of conversaA continuationof volume I's (q.v. 165) life
tions.Materialscoherein associational
form.
in theater,volume encompasses following
162. Leduc,Renato.(1897-1986)Cuandodramos
plays: "Los vagabundos," "Martirio de
diezrounds!,"
menos.Mexico:Caly Arena,1989. 169 p.
Morelos,""iPelearain
"Sefora,"
Genre:Memoirs
"Las
"Jesucristo
G6mez," nochesblancas2,"
and "JTeacuerdas de Rulfo, Juan Jose
Arreola?" Like its companion, Vivir II
Journalist,telegraphistandVillista,Leduc
tells aboutyouthwithoutinterventionof anbringsoutpoliticsbehindtheatricalproductions.
otheras in Renatoysusamigos(q.v.62). An
antidoteto nostalgiafor Porfiriato,Leduc
realisticallyrecountsschooling,earlywork, 167.Le6n Ossorio y Aguero, Adolfo. (1890-?)
de una gran infamia.
Revolution, friendships and love affairs.
iSecuestro!/Historia
Readableautobiography
influencedbyjourMexico: 1971. 109 p.
nalism.
Genre:Memoirs
171.L6pez,ArcadiaH. (1909-) Barrio Teacher.

Periodcovered:1959
Maderistaandrevolutionary,Le6nOssorio
Houston,Texas:Arte PfiblicoPress, 1992.
in publishedletterdisagreedwith ex-presi81 p.
dentAdolfoRuizCortines.Accordingto auGenre:Memoirs
thor,both RuizCortinesandAdolfoL6pez
Born in Sabinas,Hidalgoin 1909,Arcadia
Mateos connived to kidnap and imprison
him on uninhabitedRevillagigedoIslands
Hernandez L6pez with familyfled to San
off Pacificcoast.
Antonio,Texas in 1913.Aside from infrequent returns to birthplace,authorspent
168.Le6n Uranga,Luis L. (1890-1981) Crdnica
life as teacherfor 46 years in SanAntonio.
A female version of HoratioAlger, but in
delpoder.-en los recuerdosde unpolitico en
Mexico:Fondode
education, she struggled to finish high
elMxico revolucionario.
school and college to become pioneer in
CulturaEcon6mica,1987.479 p.
Genre:Memoirs
bilingualeducation.StoryreflectsinvisibilPeriodcovered:1888-1979
ity of border in continuationof Mexican
Headof DepartmentofAgricultureforstate
cultureinto Southwest.
of Sonora, senator, Secretary of Agriculture, interimgovernor of Chihuahuaand 172.L6pezFuentes, Isaac. (1899-?)Facetas de
mi vida de 83
founding member of Partido Nacional
Autobiograflade Isaac
ados."
Mexico:
Revolucionario,Luis L. Le6nwas expelled
s.n., 1983. 106p.
LdfezFuentes.
from Mexico with GeneralCalles in 1936.
Genre:Memoirs
Resuming active career upon return in
1940,he pens memoirstypicalof politician
L6pez Fuentes, telegraph operatorfor 35
for absence of chapters on childhoodand
years in Oaxacaandin MexicoCity,rose to
rank of superintendent,involvedself in lafamily.Insertion of too many documents
inhibitsreading.
bormovementandwrotebookon telegraph
service. Refreshinginnocenceand gusto.
169.LoeraY Chavez,Agustin. (1894-1961)Estampasprovincianas.Mexico, D.E: Edito- 173.L6pezMatoso,Antonio.(1761-1825) Yiae?
rial Culturea,1953.57 p.
de Perico Ligero al pals de los moros.:a
Genre:Memoirs
critical edition ofAntonio LdpezMatoso's
Periodcovered:1900?
unpublished diary, 1816-1820. New
Orleans:Tulane University,1972. 114p.
Diplomat and publisher, Loera y Chavez
Genre:Journal
evokes nativeAguascalientesin six chapters relatingmainlyto familiesand locale.
of
Filtering city Aguascalientes through
L6pez Matoso, suspected of conspiracy
againstSpanishgovernmentin Mexicoand
young self, he recalls SpaniardAzorinand
exiled to Ceutain 1816,wrote one of first
countrymanMaillefert(q.v.188, 189, 190).
autobiographicaljournalsof 19thcentury.
170.Lombardo de Miram6n, Concepci6n.
Describing journey from Mexico City to
Lombardo
Veracruzto Habanaand back, he creates
(1835-) Memoriasde Concepcidn
de Miramdn. Mexico: Editorial Porruia,
EditorTatumbest captures
autobiography.
1980.678 p.
L6pez Matoso's self portrayalwith words
Genre:Memoirs
"alternatejocose-tragictone" (p. xi).
Authorwas marriedto Miguel Miram6n, 174. L6pezPortillo,Jose. (1920-) Mis tiempos.biografiay testimonio
politico. Mexico,D.E:
military,presidentof Mexico,conservative
2
1988.
vols.
andsupporterof Maximilian.Throughlong
Fernindez,
Genre:Memoirs
memoirshe discloses aspectsof society.An
aristocrat,Lombardode Miram6nmovedin
Presidentfrom 1976to 1982,L6pezPortillo
circles of power.Withoutinsights of Scotconcentrateson publicpersonalityfor pritish foreigner, Frances Calder6n de la
vate life is obscured.Documentscomprise
Barca, fast moving memoirs have
value.
portion of volume I and all of volume II.
costumbrrstice
Essay devoted to single theme, pertinent
notes abstractedfromdiaryandfinallyret-
rospective view of events under concise

paragraphentitled "Ahoradigo,"suggest
structureof material.Althoughlast tome is
undigested,L6pezPortilloinvolvesmoreof
personalitythan other Mexicanpoliticians
in memoirs.
Genre:Memoirs
Journalist,congressman and governor of
Yucatanunder Luis Echeverria Alvarez,
Loret de Mola is refreshing memoirist.
Confessionalwritingssuggest workingsof
political system and frustrationswith nationalgovernment.
175.L6pez-Portilloy Rojas,Jose. (1850-1923)

Egiptoy Palestina,;apuntesde viaje.Mdxi179. Loustaunau,Adolfo C. (1910-? ) Los dos
co, Diaz de Le6ny White, 1874.2 vols.
Genre:Memoirs
mundos de Fitin.' Relato auto-biogrdfico.
Hermosillo,1986.287 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Mainlywriterof regionalistfiction of realist-naturalistperiod,L6pezPortilloy Rojas,
Loustaunaunarrateschronologicallylife in
upon law school graduation traveled for
three years. Two volumes on Egypt and
two worlds, childhoodand adolescence in
Palestinefallinto category of travelautobiChihuahuaandSonora;maturityinTucson,
Arizona.Focusingsomewhaton orphaned
ography:recountingpersonalexperiences
and analyzing culture and including diachildhood,he maintainsreserveof memoirist. No emotionalor personalelements inlogue, notes, moods and feelings.
terruptfactualaccount.
176.L6pezSalinas,Samuel. (1900-) La batalla
deZacatecas.-recuerdosimborrablesquede- 180.Lozano Rocha, Erasmo. (1912-) Rememcriticas.Cananea,Sonojan impact/oparatodala vida.Mexico:Edibranzas-ofpinionesy
ciones Botas, 1964.49 p.
ra, 1991.468 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
Memoirintermixesautobiography,
Author,as twelve-yearoldboy,recallsRevobiogralutionin Zacatecas.PanchoVillaandArmy
phies of Mexicans,anecdotes,politicallife
of North in a bloody battle destroyed
and newsclippings relevant to author.
Huerta'aarmy.
LozanoRocha,primarilya lawyer,was born
in Nuevo Le6n but spent part of life in
177.L6pezVelarde,Ram6n.(1888-1921)CorresTexas, where he received Baptist educafondencia conEduardof Correayotrosestion, Mexico City and Cananea,Sonora.
Protestantism and relationship through
critosfuveniles /1905-19131. Edici6n de
Guillermo Sheridan. Mexico: Fondo de
blood or marriageto a nucleus of Mexican
CulturaEcon6mica,1991.287 p.
Baptistslivingin NuevoLe6n,e.g., Westrup
Genre:Letters
and Rocha, make Lozano Rocha unique.
Memoirsof MexicansProtestantsarerare.
Guillermo Sheridan in 1988 discovered
unpublished works (165 pages of letters 181. Lugo de Santoyo,Alicia. (1905-) Mexicali
and 94 pages of poetry and essays) of
de mi luventud: relatos intrascendentes,
Zacatecan poet. L6pez Velarde penned
1922-1932. [Mexico]:Edamex,1988.90 p.
Genre:Memoirs
forty-fiveletters to Correa,Catholicpoet,
editor and founderof severaljournalsand
newspapers in Aguascalientes. L6pez
Lugode Santoyospenther youthin border
Velardewrotelettersafterleavingseminary
cities in BajaCalifornia,Mexicali,Tijuana
andstartinglawschool.Sheridan,superbly
and Ensenada.Most interestingworkwas
editingcollection,noted in introductionits
secretary of GeneralAbelardoRodriguez
contents: "Theletters...insinuate who he
(future president) but then governor of
[L6pezVelarde]is, whathe thinksandwhat
Baja California and later for Governor
he feels and whathe does..." (p. 19).
CarlosTrejo Lerdode Tejada.Trip to Europe in 1930s and marriage highlighted
178.Loretde Mola, Carlos.(1921-) Confesiones
tranquillife.
de un gobernador. Mexico: Editorial
Grijalbo,1978.306 p.
182.Luna Arroyo, Antonio. (1905-1982-Life

years of JuanO'Gorman)Juan O'Gorman:
Teacher,directorof both Colima'snormal
school and public education for state,
autobiografia,juicios criticosy documentaexhaustiva
sobre
su
obra.
Mexico:
CuaMacedo L6pezwas also journalist.Typical
ci6n
of regionalists,he combinesautobiography
dernos Populares de Pintura Mexicana
with history and costumbrismoand anecModerna,1973.528 p.
dotes. He remembers city, poets, family,
friends and teachers in autobiographical
Architect and muralist O'Gormantaped
but independent essays that in toto give
memoirs at behest of LunaArroyo. 126feeling of yesterday'sColima.
page document,comprisedof clustersof informationunderthematiclabels, suggests 185.Madero,GustavoA. (1875-1913) Gustavo
A. Madero.-epistolario/selecci6ny pr6logo
presence of LunaArroyo.Yetinterference
does not distractfrominformativevaluefor
de IgnacioSolares. Mexico: EditorialDiainformation.O'Gormanfranklydiscusses
na, 1991.239 p.
Genre:Letters
familyand details aspects of life in art and
architecture.
Youngerbrotherof martyredFranciscoI.
183.Luquin,Eduardo. (1896-) Autobiografia.
Madero,Gustavowas senator,directorof
Mexico [Ecuador000'0"], 1967.454 p.
finances of brother'scampaign,founderof
Genre:Autobiography
the Progressive ConstitutionalParty and
secretaryof treasuryof provisionalgovernment in 1911.Letters,writtento Gustavo's
Esfigas de infanciay adolescencia.18961915.
wife, CarolinaVillarrealde Madero,sugMentionsbirthin Sayula,Jalisco,describes
gest happy marriageof their authors and
childhoodhome, primaryschool, friends,
Gustavo'ssuccess as businessman.Eightysix letterspostmarkedMexicoandU.S.,imadolescence, education,uncles and beginning of militarycareer in first of three auage caring father and husband. Editor
Solares wants to correct impression that
tobiographieswithinthis collection.
GustavoMaderoexploited Revolutionfor
Coronade espinas.1915?-1928?
own purposes.
Luquin fought in Revolution under
VenustianoCarranzaand in 1925 entered
diplomaticcorps. In CoronaLuquinrefers 186.MaderoOlivares,Enrique.(1900-) Memoto povertywhilein ParisandMadrid,return
rias. Mexico:EditorialJus, 1983.61 p.
to Mexico and assignmentto London.He
Genre:Memoirs
maximizeswhatis possible with traveland
forpresencesaturatesevery
autobiography
Miningengineer,industrialist,presidentof
momentin Europe.Luquinknewseveralof
Mexican Red Cross, Madero Olivares
los Contempordneos.
quicklynotes majorcontoursof life. Cousin
El regreso.1918-1960
of martyredpresident,he belonged to arBy far the longest of the three combined
istocracyof Monterrey,a privilegedstatus
reflectedin educationand travel.
books, El regresoimages the diplomatat
height of career in Ecuador,Brazil,Spain,
the Hague, Chile, Englandand Cuba. He 187.Magdaleno,Mauricio.(1906-1986) Tierra
knew significantwritersanddiplomatsand
y viento.Mexico,D.E:EditorialStylo,1948.
244 p.
accordinglyvignettesthem. Onlytwoother
Genre:Memoirs
autobiographersequal or surpass him as
vignettist,MartinLuis Guzmin andVictorian Salado Alvarez. Luquin, one of
Novelist,dramatist,short story writerand
Mexico's best autobiographers, merits
screenplaywriter,Magdalenoreveals self
more attention.
in autobiographyPresent work,collection
of articles, is fragmented. Visiting
184.MacedoL6pez,Juan. (1910-) ViaY;e
alredeQuer~taro, Veracruz, Oaxaca, San Luis
dordela nostalgia.Colima,Mexico:UniverPotosi and other places, Magdalena dissidad de Colima,1986.2 vols.
closes self in first person narrativewith
Genre:Memoirs
subjectiveinterpretationof locale.
en el
188.Maillefert,Alfredo.(1889-1941)Anclda
culture, registrar for correspondence
school,journalist,politicianin Partidode la
tiempo, gentes y paisajes. Morelia,
1940.
Revoluci6nMexicana,and severalgovernUniversidad
michoacana,
Michoacan:
ment positions.Comparedto poignancyof
192 p.
Genre:Memoirs
youth, second volume loses in intensity
becauseof maturity.Prosperous,he goes to
Maillefertrevives PorfirianMichoacin in
Europeandin travelmemoirs,self becomes
83 vignettes of personalities mainlyfrom
displaced.Criticalautobiographydeserves
more attention.
youth. Untouchedby realities of dictatorship, Morelia's doctors, street vendors,
poets, priests and other assorted types 192. Maldonado Sfandez, Braulio. (1903-)
Braulio.Mexico:TalleresGrificos del Goemerge in perfectionof nostalgia.YetAncda
bierno de BajaCalifornia,1986.116 p.
qualifiesas autobiographyfor Maillefert's
Genre:Memoirs
relationship to individuals and environPeriodcovered:1903-1960?
ment. Spaniard Azorin and J. Ruben
Born in San Jose del Cabo, Maldonado
Romerojustlyfind mentionhere.
Saindez, federal deputy (senator), also
served as governor of Baja California,
189.Maillefert,Alfredo.(1889-1941)Laudanza
1953-1959. Lawyer,soldier, co-founderof
de Michoacdn,; Morelia, Pdtzcuaro,
LeftistSocialistPartyand braceroin U.S.,
Uruapan.Mexico:UniversidadNacionalde
he enjoyedvariedcareer.MemoirsandsupMexico, 1937. 148 p.
Genre:Memoirs
porting documents touch on these with
little on familyand personality.
Periodcovered:1900s
"Memoirs"is almost too unpoeticterm to
describe impressionistic vignettes that 193. Mangas Alfaro,Roberto. (?) Mdx/icoen el
La Cumbre
comprise book. Author remembersthree
yBueAconcagua.Loscapfitulos
nosAiresfor RobertoGarciaJudrez.Mdxicolonialcities of native Michoacin resultco: Ediciones"Eugene,"1948.236 p.
ing in mood and atmosphere ratherthan
normaltouristinformation.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1947?
A firmbelieverin Guadalupanismo,
author
190.Maillefert,Alfredo.(1889-1941)Loslibros
in
Mexico:
and
1947
set
out
to
Universitaria,
Imprenta
colleagues
conquer
que lez?
1942.255 p.
Argentina's Aconcagua, highest peak in
Genre:Memoirs
hemisphere. Memoirsdepict struggles in
ascent. MangasAlfaronotes other achievers such as ArgentineJuanJorge Link.
Reactionsto books become more than reviews or other types of analysis when
reader records feelings and surroundings 194. MaplesArce,Manuel.(1898-1981)Mivida
that engenderthem. Such is present work
por el mundo. Mexico: Universidad
of Maillefertwho shares 24 of favoriteEuveracruzana,1983.379 p.
Genre:Memoirs
ropeanandMexicanauthors.Collectionof
subjectivereactionsbringsout Maillefert's
Arce
ContinuingSoberanajuventudMaples
autobiographythroughtastes in reading.
relies on form of memoirto describelife in
191.Maldonado,EnriqueJ. (1906-) Jirones de
diplomaticcorps: Belgium, Poland, Italy,
mi vida.Mexico:"MoralesHnos."1963. 2
Portugal,England,Panama,Chile,Colomvols.
bia,JapanandPakistan.Recordingexternal
life ratherthancreativelife of poet,in passGenre:Autobiography
Periodcovered:1906--1963?
ing he mentions family and friends. Vida
Book anomalousfor Mexican autobiograpor el mundoproves that adultyears lack
intensityof youth.
phy for capturingentire life and exposing
manyunpleasantsituations.Borninto poverty in Huatabampo,Sonora,Maldonado's 195.Marin,MarianoB. (1897-) Recuerdosde la
earlylife was plaguedby hardworkand disegundaedirevolucidnconstitucionalista.,
saster.He held manyjobs fromlow employcidn,; La rebel'dn delahuertista en
ments to purchaserfor departmentof agriTamaulipas-terceraedici6n.CiudadVicto-
ria:UniversidadAut6nomade Tamaulipas, 199.Martinez,Jorge. ( ? ) Memoriasytonterias

1977. 109 p.
de un obispo.2a parte.Mexico:GrupoEdiGenre:Memoirs
torialEcumene, 1990.429 p.
Genre:Diary
Soldier in Constitutionalist army under
Period covered:1985-1986
General Cesar L6pez de Lara,Marin reBishop's twenty-month diary blending
counts militaryadventuresin Tamaulipas.
spiritualwith mundanebetraysprofundity
Clearand concise, he limits self to military
not suggested by title. Through entries
life. For participation in aborted
Martinezscatters autobiographybut reliDelahuertistamovementagainstPresident
gious sentimentpredominates.He shares
Obreg6n,Marinwent into exile in U.S.
readings,thoughtsaboutparishioners,duties, mysticalrole of church in revolution196.MarinRodriguez,Gregorio.(1933?-)Tiemary Mexico, dailyactivities,etc.
fo de hablar,;otra cara del periodismo.
200. Martinez,Luis Maria.(1881-1956).A pro[Mexico?:s.n., c. 1988] 236 p.
Genre:Memoirs
pdsitode un via;e.2ed. Mejico,AdministraPeriodcovered:1950-1964
ci6n de "LaCruz,"1941. 171p.
Genre:Memoirs
Marin Rodriguez from San Luis Potosi
worked at various jobs before becoming
Periodcovered:1935
Author,Archbishopof Morelia,travels to
reporter. Involved in state politics espeU.S., Spain,France, Italyand Egypt. Relicially in opposition to regional caudillo
Gonzalo N. Santos (q.v. 298), Marin
gious orientationto alltouristsites makefor
travel memoir. Own advice best summaRodriguezis attentiveto localpersonalities.
rizes philosophy and technique of travel.
197.Marroquin P~amanes,Enrique. (1903-?)
'The most exquisiteof ourlives is insideof
Anecdotasdel gzero Marroquin.Mexico:
ourselves; the outside is only stimulus or
Direcci6n Generalde CulturasPopulares
nourishment,and at times an extension of
de la SEP,1988.400 p.
our intimatelives" (p. 8).
Genre:Memoirs
201. MartinezL6pez,Adolfo.(?) Vivir...Recordando la escuela normal de Jalisco.
Aptly-toldmemoir and source for popular
culture for author's chronological reconJalisco, Mexico:UnidadEdiGuadalajara,
struction of life around independentincitorial, 1988. 130 p.
dents involving events or personalities.
Genre:Memoirs
Farmer,hacendado, pioneer aviator,and
In 1987, the Normal School of Jalisco's
mainlya personality,Marroquinlivedin La
Laguna (Coahuila-Durango) area. Albirthdaycoincidedwithpresident's"yearof
MartinezL6pezpayshomage
though he knew many important men
normalzsmo."
to almamaterby remembering1939-1945
(PanchoVilla,JuanAndreuAlmazain,Elias
Calles,Cantinflas,SaturninoCedillo,Avila
generation,faculty,students, staff, educationalplantandcertificationas teacher.He
Camacho, Miguel Alemain,Jesus Urueta
andPortesGil),LAzaroCardenas,whomhe
affectionatelyrecallsnormalschool,essenaided with land redistribution in 1930s,
tial part of educationalsystem.
dominates.
202. Massolo,Alejandra.(1946-Birthyear of la
198. Martinez,Jorge. ( ? ) Memoriasy reflexiosefioraAurora).MemoriadelPedregal,menes de un obispo. Mexico: Editorial
moriasde mujer.-Testimoniode una colona.
526
1986.
p.
Villicafia,
Mrxico: Mujeres para el Diilogo, 1988.
Genre:Memoirs
32 p.
First volume diary of bishop highlights
LasefioraAurora,a 38-yearold womanlivproblems of contemporary priest and
churchdignitary.Present-daychurch,self
ing in Pedregal de SantoDomingo de Los
examinationand efforts at change acquire
Reyes in Coyoacinin MexicoCity,belongs
tone andcontentsimilarto vol. II, (q.v.199).
to city's poorest class. An articulatesurvivor, she has four children,fights againsta
city governmentthat destroys her home, 206. Mendoza,MariaLuisa. (1927-) De cuerpo

entero.Maria
Mendoza.Mexico:Ediworks to build a school, and in short beLuzsa
comes politicized.Introduction,description
ciones Corunda,1991.55 p.
of Pedregal, reflections of women's roles
Genre:Memoirs
and bibliography enhance document.
Massolalaudsvalueof testimony,but menFromGuanajuato,Mendoza,novelist,jourtions nothingon methodology.
nalist,lecturer,politicianandinteriordecorator, has interests in intellectual habits
203. Mediz Bolio, Antonio. (1884-1957) A la
(reading,writingandorating).Abstractlife
sombrade mi
Mexico:
concrete,i.e., revelationsof self
relatosfdciles.
outweighs
ceiba."
EdicionesBotas,
1956.286 p.
generallydisplaceboth Mexico and immediate surroundings.Intellectualand emoGenre:Memoirs
tionalself emerges.
Politician, diplomat,poet, dramatist,and
Ezequiel.(1893-) TesMayanist(Latierradelfazsdnydelvenado), 207. MendozaBarragain,
Mediz Bolio has left type of fragmented
timonio cristero.- memorias del autor
memoir.Expressingsome personalexperiEzequielMendozaBarragdn;presentaci6n
ence of author, each thematically-joined
de JeanMeyer.Mexico:EditorialJus, 1990.
421 p.
relatocomprisesanindependentunit:childGenre:OralAutobiography
hood in Yucatan,diplomaticcorps,RevoluPeriod covered:1922-1929
tion, andYucatecanculture.
Based on writings and conversations of
204. Mejido,Manuel. (1932-) El camino de un
Mendoza Barragain,Meyer conjures an
insider's view of Calles's persecution of
reportero.Mexico:EditorialGrijalbo,1984.
332 p.
cristeros in 1922.Difficultto note interferGenre:Memoirs
ence or presence of recorder.
ManuelMejido,creativeand enterprising 208. Mendoza-L6pez,Margarita.(1910?-1985)
El teatrode ayerde mis recuerdos.Mexico:
reporter,roamedworldin searchof stories.
Eachof twenty-onechaptersinvolvesan inPorruia,1985. 159p.
ternationalevent usuallyoutside Hispanic
Genre:Memoirs
world. Focusing on external for a limited
numberofyears,workclearlycreatesmemAuthorrememberstheatermainlythrough
oir.
lives of parents, Luiz Mendoza L6pez,
promotorand creatorof musicalsandBer205. Mendoza,Lydia.(1916-)
tha MendozaL6pez,costumerandtheater
LydiaMendoza.'A
andintrooperator.Familytoured Mexico and U.S.
FamilyAutobiograpfy/compiled
duced by Chris Strachwitz and James
TheaterhistorypredominatesoverpersonNicolopulos.Houston,Texas:Arte Pfiblico
ality.
Press, 1993.409 p.
209. Menendez Gonzalez,Antonio. (1926-) El
de un conscrito.Mexico:[s.n.], 1946.
dianro
319 p.
"Lydia Mendoza was first woman performer of vernacularmusic to emerge as
Genre:Diary
starfromfledglingbusiness of commercial
Drafted Yucateco, Menendez Gonzalez
recording of Mexican-Americancountry
music"(p. ix). AlthoughLydiadominates,
with day-to-dayentries reportson military
life from the ranks. Leaving Yucatanfor
other membersof northernMexico family
come into view for careers in music. From
Mexico City,he joined medicalcorps. AnSanAntonio,Texas,familytouredSouthwest
ecdotal, personal and absorbing, diary
and Mexico. Constructedfrom interviews
complementsmanymilitarylife stories.
with entire family,autobiographyincorporates much Mexicanpopularlore such as 210. Mesa Andraca, Manuel. (1893-) Relatos
songs and variety acts. Mexican-born
autobiograficoscon
lascompaiaspetroleras,
Mendozafamilysurvivedas entertainersin
mi vinculacidn con la reforma agraria.
Mexico:EditorialesNuestroTiempo,1981.
occasionallyhostile Anglo environment.
168p.
PimeriaPro Arte y Cultura,1986. 122p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
Activein bothoil andagriculture,authorrePoet, essayist and fanatic Vasconcelista,
countsbeginningsof career.NarrativeuseMonroy Rivera recalls years from age
ful for perspectiveon economy.However,
fifteen to thirty. Student in Hermosillo,
little of family,personallife or personality
Guadalajaraand later Mexico City,he besurfacein memoirsof activelife.After1922,
came criminologist.
Mesa Andracabecame more involved in
215. Montalbain,Ricardo.(1920-) Reflection.A
agricultureand in politics.
Life in Two Worlds.Ricardo Montalbain,
211. Meyers, Kathleen Ann. (1655-1719-Life
with Bob Thomas. Garden City, N.Y.:
years of Mariade SanJoseph) Becominga
Doubleday,1980. 164p.
Nun in Seventeenth CenturyMexico.An
Genre:Memoirs
Edition of the SpiritualAutobiographyof
Mariade San Joseph (vol. I) unpublished
Son of Spaniards,actor Montalbainspent
first 18 years of life in Mexico, mainly in
Ph.D. dissertation,Brown,1986.206 p.
Genre:Autobiography
Torre6n.A teenager,he moved to CaliforPeriodcovered:1656-1687
nia and became interested in theater and
film. Along with career he mentions marSister MariaJoseph, born Juana Palacio
Berruecos in Tepeacan near Puebla, deriage and family.Title, accuratelydescribscribes earlylife andfrustrationswithfamrefers
ing two ethnic worldsof Montalbain,
to spirituallife.
ily because of determinationto enter convent. Latervolumes, accordingto Meyers,
concentratemore on religiouslife.
216. Monterde, Francisco. (1894-) Personas,
revistasy diarios,;recofilacidny entrevistas
212. Miram6n,Miguel. (1832-1876) "Cartas
del
forJosi Martinez Torres.Mexico: UniversidadAut6nomaMetropolitana,1982.60 p.
general Miguel Miramin a su esfosa."In
Memorias de Concefcidn Lombardo de
Genre:Memoirs
Miramon.Mexico:EditorialPorrfia,1980.
193 p.
Poet, dramatist,novelistand criticin short
Genre:Letters
autobiographynotes contributionsto periPeriodcovered:1858-1867
odicals and newspapersto which he conConservative general and president of
tributedduringproductivelife:"ElUniverMexico, Miram6nfightingJuirez and Libsal," "Mexico,""Ethnos,""El Imparcial,"
erals,was shot at Queretaroin 1876as par"Tricolor," "Revista de Revistas," "El
tisan of Maximilian.PostmarkedMexico,
Mexicano," "El Universal ilustrado,"
U.S. and Europe, letters indicate gentler
"Biblos,""Antena,""Mefist6feles,""Zigside of general, also devotedhusbandand
Zag,""El Maestro,""Mexico Moderno,"
father.In Rome,presence of pope at mass
"Castillosy Leonles,""Elmaestro rural,"
excites Miram6n.
"America,""Abside,""RevistaNacional,"
"RevistaMilitar,""Gaceta,""Fervor,""La
213. MonroyRivera,Oscar. (1933-) Esas voces
"ElLibroy el
Falange,""Contemporineos,"
Pueblo," "El hijo pr6digo," "Sintesis,"
le/anas.: autobiografia IL M xico: Alta
"Letras patrias," "La vida literaria,"
PimeriaProArte y Cultura,1987.245 p.
Genre:Memoirs
"Novedades,""El Liberal"(Spain) y "La
Naci6n"(Argentina).
In vein similarto Sueffossin retorno(q.v.
214) Monroy Riveracontinues memoirs 217. Montes,Amparo.(1920?-)Mi vida.En verwith mixture of letters, poetry and narrasidn de Zita Finol. Mexico:Edamex,1988.
126 p.
tion. LoyalSonorenseand combativecritic
of Mexican culture, he wrote El
seaor
presidenteenanonia.
Starof Mexicanradio,singerAmparoMontes with collaborationof ZitaFinolrecords
214. MonroyRivera,Oscar.(1933-) Sue'os sin
memoirs. Born into modest family from
retorno. autobiogrdficoII Mexico: Alta
heterosexism.
Chiapas,Montes was a celebrity as radio
vocalist in 1940s and 1950s. Happy moments of life andothercelebritiescomprise 221. Moraga,Cherrie.(1952-)Lovingin the War
lo que nunca fasd por sus labios.
memoirs.
Years."
Boston:South End Press, 1983. 152p.
218. Montes de Oca y Obreg6n. (1840-1921)
Genre:hybrid (essay/poetry)
delfpandroAcaico.
Introducci6n,
Epzistolario
transcripci6ny notas de JoaquinAntonio
Essays andpoems comprisesporadicautowho mingles
Pefialosa.San LuisPotosi, 1952.139 p.
biographyof Chicana-lesbian
Genre:Letters
lifestory data with essays on Chicanismo
but mainlywomen'sliberationfroma patriPeriodcovered:1861-1875
One section of book, "Cartasde Montesde
archal system. California-bornMoraga's
bitterconfessionandanalysessurelyincorOca,"comprises sixteen letters writtento
father from Rome, Florence, Alexander,
poratewomen from both sides of the border (q.v.220).
Jerusalem,TulaandCiudadVictoria.From
andlaterBishopofTamaulipas,
Guanajuato
humanist,and chaplainfor Maximilian,he 222. Montiel, Gustavo. (1936-) De Comitdna
went into exile duringRevolution.
en un
de
MdxiTapachula." autobzis segunda.
co, D.E: G. Montiel,1990. 188 p.
219. Montesinos,Jose Maria.(1848-)MAemorias
Genre:Memoirs
del sargento fose Maria Montesinos.
Civil engineer in highway construction,
(Chiapas): Gobierno del Estado de
authorhas writtenseveralbooks relatingto
Chiapas,1984.279 p.
Genre:Memoirs
places in state of Chiapas.In trip he comPeriodcovered:1866
poses a type of derroteronotingcities, hisVerve, passion and narrativetalent of autory of roads,terrain,individualsandinstithor make one of better memoirs of 19th
tutions.
century Mexico. Sergeant Jose Maria
Montesinos, along with many other 223. Montiel,Gustavo.(1936-) Notasde un viaYucatecos,opposedre-electionofJuirez as
je al extremooriente.Mexico:Costa-Amic,
1961,218 p.
president of Mexico and Patale6n
Genre:Memoirs
Dominguez as governor of Yucatan.SerPeriodcovered:1955
geant fought on side firstof EutimioYdfiez
and later Julian Grajales and Sebastian
Authorin short periodvisits Japan,Hong
Escobar.FernandoCastahi6n,introducing
Kong, Philippines,Honolulu,Hawaiiand
San Francisco,Californiawith tour group
memoirs, justly compares young
Montesinos to Bernal Diaz del Castillo.
of other Mexicans.Noting personalitiesof
"...he not only carrieda riflebut also notecompanions and reacting subjectively to
book in which to recordhis immediateimforeignenvironmentplacespresentworkin
pressions"(p. 16).
autobiography.Un mexicanodetrdsde la
cortinade hierro(1968)fails as lifewriting
220. Moraga, Cherrie. (1952-) The Lost
for its concern with Russian history and
ProseandPoetry.Boston:South
Generation.objectivedescriptionof touristsites.
End Press, 1993. 197 p.
Genre:hybrid (essay/poetry)
224. Moreno,Mariadel Pilar.(1907-) La tragePeriodcovered:1985-1992
dia de mi vida.Mexico:Compahiia
Editorial
Inthe same style andangeras Lovingin the
70 p.
"Phoenix,"1922.
WarYears(q.v.221), TheLast Generation
Genre:Memoirs
relates more to Mexico. Moraga,even indicatedin her bibliography,finds her past
Mariadel PilarMorenolivedpamperedlife
in pre-Columbianmyths.A search for self,
sponsoredby her father,politicianandhead
of periodical,"ElHeraldode Mexico."Poli"Chicana,lesbian, half-breed,poet,"and a
discussion of where is the ChicanoMoveticianTejedaLlorcagunnedfatherdown.In
ment today dominateas themes. Her conretribution, yet by accident, 15-year-old
tinuedantipathyto the patriarchalChicano
Mariadel Pilar,an adoringdaughter,shot
systemis nowcoupledwiththe movement's
TejedaLlorca.Soapoperaqualities,patriar-
chal system andLatininterpretationofvengeance make La tragediaa readableautobiography.
Journalist,Naijerahas also published poetry, short stories and novels and in autobiography,she triesto recaptureentirelife.
Naijera,an unorthodoxwoman,supported
self and childrenby writingand by selling
books, andin spite of a sporadiceducation,
she often broachedsociologicalthemes in
publications.She does not fit stereotypeof
woman.
225. Mufiiz-Huberman,Angelina. (1936-) De

cuerpo
AngelinaMuyfiz-Huberman.
entero."
Mexico:
EdicionesCorunda,1991.47 p.
Genre:Autobiographicalessay
Author explores unique background: of
Jewish-Spanishparents exiled because of 229. Navarrete,Heriberto.(?) Loscristeroseran
CivilWar,three years in Cuba,and finally
ast... Mexico:EditorialJus, 1968. 105 p.
Genre:Memoirs
grade school in Mexico. MufiizHuberman's other world belongs to crePeriodcovered:1926-1929
ation and writing:abilityto adaptself anySeries of loosely-tiedanecdotes comprise
memoirthat complementsearlierPorDios
where, writingsas a child, traveland perceptions about language, reading,college
ypor la patria... (1961). Each chapterreand literature,literarycriticism,first pubvolves aroundnonfictionalheroic incident
licationsand some hints at sources of crein dailylife of Cristerosof Jalisco.
ation.
230. NavarroCorona,Rafael.(1910?-?)Recuer226. Mufioz,EsauP. (1884-1967)Historiasdefe
dos de unfatbolista. Monterrey,Mexico:
y amor,alprincipio del evangelioen el norImpresoraMonterrey,1965.345 p.
te de
memoriasde Esau ?P
Genre:Memoirs
M.uoz.
Mexico."
Mexico:
Casa Unida de Publicaciones,
1987.229 p.
in bibliographywritten
Onlyautobiography
Genre:Memoirs
by outstandingathlete.AlthoughNavarro
Coronacovers large portionof life, he obMuhoz ended life as Methodist minister
sesses with footballand work meritsterm
"memoirs."
servingin Villaldama,Monterrey,Torre6n,
Coahuila and in U.S. Both Jewish and
Catholic,Mufioz'sfamily in 19th century 231. NavarroMartinez,Miguel. (1901-?) Relaconverted to Protestantismand suffered
tosy anecdotasde un cantor 1901-1954.
Mexico, D.E: InstitutoNacionalde Esturejectionand persecutioneven from relatives. Memoir traces Presbyterian/Methdios Hist6ricosde la Revoluci6nMexicana,
odist origins and evolution of family in
1990. 166 p.
Catholicmilieuof northernMexico.
Genre:Memoirs
227. Mufioz,Ignacio.(1892-1965)Verdadymito
Of peasant origins, Navarro Martinez,
de la revolucidnmexicana(relatadafor un
songwriter and musician born in
tomo
II.
Mexico:
Ediciones
Calimaya,Mexico, was Zapatista,farmer,
protagonista)
populares,S.A., 1960.
woodgatherer,freighter, gardener, labor
Genre:Memoirs
union leader,andorganizerof religiouspilPeriodcovered:1913-1914?
grimages.Inunusualtestimony,he chronoVillista militaryMufioz has compiled hylogicallymerges experienceswith corridos
brid memoir in two volumes. First is his(ballads)of own creation.
tory;second,withauthoras participant/obAl- 232. Negrete,Jorge. (1911-1953)
server,deserves label"autobiography."
Gloriayjorge."
though firmly opinionated, journalist
Cartas de amor y conflicto. Mexico:
EDAMEXy Claudiade Icaza,1993.205 p.
Mufioz maintains interest with properly
Genre:Letters
placed anecdote.
228. Nfjera, Indiana.(1906-) Pdginas intimnas.
Popularartistof la mzsicarancheraandstar
Mexico:Costa-Amic,1970.260 p.
in fortyfilms,JorgeNegretemarriedGloria
Genre:Autobiography
Marinand they made four films including
"iAyJalisco,no te rajes!"Presentcollection
comprises47 love lettersto her unitedwith

appropriatebiography. Except for occasional mentionof place, films, and illness,
few other items interruptexpressed love.
Repletewithphotographs,biography/autobiography records life similar to screen
portrayalof life. Criticalfor film as popular
culture.
somewhatrepeatsinformationin El artista
en Nueva York(cartasaJean Charloty tres
textos ineditos) of 1971. Written to wife,
MargaritaValladares,collectionhas as its
locus the frustrated artist living in New
York and wary of exploitation. Painting,
contact with friends, promotionof works
andquestionsconcerningfamilyin Mexico
dominatein correspondence.Themes lack
poignancyof earliercollection,an artist-toartist exchange, which enhances observations.
233. NoriegaHope,Carlos.(1896-1934)Elmundode lassombras,el cineporAeraypfordentro.Mexico:AndresBotas, [1920?]183 p.

Genre:Memoirs
237. Orozco,Jose Clemente.(1883-1949)Textos
de Orozco; estudios y apindice Justizo
Havinglived in U.S., journalistand short
story writerNoriegaHope satirizesadvenFerndzdez, addenda Teresa del Conde.
tures through anecdotes on Hollywoodin
Mexico:UNAM,1983. 183p.
film making'searlyyears.
Genre:letters/interviews
234. Novo, Salvador. (1904-1974) Continente
Althoughmuch autobiographicaldata are
found throughouttext, most useful docuvacio (viajea Sudamrtica).Madrid:Espasa
ments include fifteen letters to Justino
Calpe,1935.252 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Fernandez,postmarkedMexico and New
Periodcovered:1934
York, 1940-1949, and a 1944 interview of
As Novoconfesses andalsopractices,travel
AntonioRodriguezwithartistmilitantlyexwritingsareconversationswithself.Subjecpressing views on art.
tivity,regardingplace,peopleandidea, exposes more of Novo than topic he treats. 238. Orozco,MargaritaValladaresde. (?) "Memorias/testimonios."In Cartasa MargariAlthough readers benefit from perceptive
commentson Riode Janeiro,BuenosAires
ta. Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1987. 362 p.
and Montevideo,they ultimatelypossess
(Memoirs/Testimonies)
more of author'spersonality.Abundantuse
Genre:Memoirs
of "yo"in confession and interactionwith
Two autobiographiescomprise Cartas a
any environmentmake for autobiographical writing.
Margarita.Infirstseventypages,Margarita
Valladares,Orozco'swidowgives contextof
235. Ojeda,JorgeArturo.(1943-) Cartasalemahusband's letters. Quickly noting family
tas. Mexico: Secretariade Educaci6nPuibackground,meeting with Orozco,she focuses mainlyon his presence or absence
blica, 1972.210 p.
Genre:Memoirs
duringU.S. years.
Periodcovered:1970?
Novelist, short story writer,and essayist, 239. Oth6n, ManuelJose. (1858-1906) EpistoOjedacombines traveland autobiography
lario;,glosas, esquemas,bndicesy notas de
based on tripto Europe:Germany(Munich
JesisZavala.Mexico:UniversidadNacional
and Murnau),Spain,Italyand CzechosloAut6nomade Mexico, 1946.122 p.
vakia.Descriptionsrelateto travelwhileinGenre:Letters
volvement with other students (auto)bioPeriodcovered:1894-1906
In forty-threeletters Oth6ndiscusses with
graphizes young Mexican sensitive to
1968'smeaningfor his generation.
JuanB. Delgadoproblemsofverse,vocabulary and publishing. Collection shows
writerat work.
236. Orozco,Jose Clemente. (1883-1948) Cartas a Margaritaf1921/1949/ Mdxico:Ediciones Era, 1987.362 p.
240. Owen, Gilberto. (1905-1952) Cartas a
Genre:Letters
ClementinaOtero.Mexico:InstitutoNacioPeriodcovered:1921-1949
nal de BellasArtes, 1982.87 p.
Genre:Letters
Third autobiographicaltome on Orozco
Periodcovered:1928
Mainly poet and member of los
Owenwrotelovelettersto
Contempordneos,
actress Clementina Otero from U.S.
Mexico. U.S. letters more quotidianwith
commentsaboutalien culture.
Novelist, short-storywriter,essayist, poet

and translator,Patan was son of Spanish
exiles in Mexico.Hejoinsintellectualdevelopment(education,loveforreading,andefforts at creation) with biographicalfacts
concerningfamilyin chronologicalautobiography.He lived in Chihuahua,Mexico
CityandVeraCruz.
241. Pacheco Cruz,Santiago.( ? ) Recuerdosde

la propaganda constitucionalista en
en
Yucatdn.Merida:TallaresGraficosy Edito- 245. Paz,Octavio.(1914-)XavierVillaurrutia
rial "Zamna,"
1953.493 p.
personay en obra.Mexico:Fondo de CulGenre:Memoirs
turaEcon6mica,1978.85 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Rural school teacher, Santiago Pacheco
Cruz joined forces of General Salvador
Althoughwritingintellectualbiographyof
Xavier Villaurrutia, essayist Paz leaves
Alvarado,head of army of Southeast and
much of own life. For ideas all appeardegovernor of Yucatan,1915-1917.Pacheco
Cruz served as majortranslatorto proparived from primary sources, i.e.,
Villaurrutia'spoems and dramasor what
gate Alvarado'sprogramin Yucatan.Parts
III and IV concern two of Pacheco Cruz's
Paz remembersof los Contempordneos.
Indirect memoir comprises reminiscences
idols, SalvadorAlvaradoandFelipeCarrillo
Puerto.
andinterpretationofVillaurrutia'screation
andat times MexicanandHispanicculture.
242. Palacios, Adela. (1908-) Los palacios de
Adela.-afuntes autobiogrdficos.Mexico, 246. Pazuengo,Matias.( ?) Historiade la RevoD.E: Secci6nde Escritoresdel Institutode
lucidnenDurango.Cuernavaca,Mor.,1915.
Cienciasy Humanidades:Federaci6nEdi115 p.
torialMexicana,1986. 123 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
Pro revolutionary soldier, Pazuengo describes Revolution and its effects in
Novelist,poetandwidowof SamuelRamos,
AdelaPalacioscomposesaccordingto femiDurango.Bothas observerandparticipant,
nists dogma. Frankand iconoclastic, she
he interests most in anecdotal moments
such as disposal of bodies or assimilation
deploresparentsandconventionsthatstifle
women. Totally different in content and
of capturedenemy troops.
from
other
female
of
autobiographers
style
her generation,she mingleshistory,poetry 247. Pefiafiel,FranciscoA. (1904?-) Undia desand autobiographywith delightfulresults.
pudsdesiempre.Col.Cuauhtemoc[Mexico
1987.119p.
City]:ClavesLatinoamericanas,
243. Parodi,Enriquetade. (1899-1976)
Genre:Memoirs
Madre."
Prosas. Mexico: [s.n.] Tipografia "Julia
Born into poverty in state of Hidalgo,
Marta,"1937. 131 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Pefiafieland familymoved to Mexico City
in 1920sbut lived also in Cubaand France.
In 29 briefchaptersauthortraces life from
Communist, journalist and promoter of
childhood to maternity. Always central
Mexican films, he traveledto China,Russia, PolandandJapan.He capturesa mood
figure,motherdominateseach impression
of Mexico in 1930s and 1940s. In valuable
andeven moreso followingdeath.Paeanto
motherhood universally,but in Mexican
chapter,"Laundecima muse," he biogracontext.
phizes poet, ConchaUrquiza.
244. Patin, Federico. (1937-) De cuerpo
248. Peniche Vallado,Leopoldo. (1908-) Somentero."
Federico Patdn. Mexico: Ediciones
brasdepalabras.:
antimemorias.
memorin'asy
Corunda,1991.58 p.
Mirida:MaldonadoEditores,1987.224 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Genre:Memoirs
Texas to Californiato Oregon and finally

Universitystudent, playwrightand politiback to Mexico, he holds multiple jobs,
cian, Peniche Valladorecords memoirs of
viewsunderbellyof U.S.life,fallsintohands
Yucatan.No otherautobiographer
registers
of migra, and suffers exploitation once
more intenselypreparatoryand university
more upon returnhome.
years of 1920sand 1930s.Authorin minute
detail recalls dispute between President
Miguel Aleman and Governor Gonzalez 252. Perez Solis, Ivan. ( ? ) Intimidadesde un
46 casosde la vidareal.Mexico,B.
Beytia. Finalpages concern author'swritmddico."
Costa-Amic
[1967] 255 p.
ing career.
Genre:Memoirs
249. Peralta,Elda. (1930-?)Luis Spota.:Las susPeriodcovered:1950?-1967?
As indicated,each autobiographicalchaptancias de la tierra.:una biografla ntima.
ter is a self-containedincident of medical
Mexico:Grijalbo,1990.359 p.
Genre:Memoir
practicein Tijuana,BajaCalifornia.
As she biographizesLuisSpota,Peraltaalso 253. Perez Tamayo, Ruy. (1924-) La segunda
discloses self. Pages emphasize love and
vuelta.:notasautobiogrdfcasycomentarios
sobrela cienciaen Mizico.Mexico,D.E: El
quarrelsof prolificwriterand companion.
U.S. educated, professionaltennis player,
Colegio Nacional,1983.209 p.
Genre:Memoirs
stage and film actress, and playwright,
Peralta uncovers own life: bourgeoisie
motherwith pretensionsof aristocracy,faPerez Tamayo, one of few scientists to
record memoirs, leaves document about
ther, an ambulantgovernment employee,
career as surgeon trainedboth in Mexico
three successful sisters, and finally,Luis
and U. S. He has taughtpathologyin variSpota, axis of her existence. An independent and talented individualin own right,
ous institutions.MemoirsencompassintelPeraltahas no need of Spotafor fame.
lectual development in interaction with
teachers and mentorsbut also in humani250. Perea, Hector. (1887-1976-Life years of
ties. Tamaulipan native, he employs
Guzman) Martin Luis Guzmdn."
thoughtfulapproachto science and medide
Cultura
EcoMexico:
Fondo
cine. After hiatus of 25 years, he joyfully
Iconografia.
returnsto research.
n6mica, 1987. 167 p.
Genre:Memoirs/Photographs
254. Pettersson,Aline. (1938-) De cuerpoenteSelectionsof best autobiographical
ro.:Aline Pettersson. Mexico: Ediciones
writings
of outstandingwriter.FromApuntessobre
Corunda,1990.64 p.
una personalidad,A orillasdel Hudson,El
Genre:Memoirs
dguilayla serp/ente,La sombradelcaudillo
In search for self, Pettersson explores
and Crdnicasde midestierro,interviewsand
letters,recastedpieces alongwithmultiple
larger terrain than do most writers in series. Althoughwriting and its constituent
photographscombineto imageof Guzman.
acts, reading and solitude form axis of
Photographsof Guzmanor familyexhibit
of
memoir,novelisthere, in displayingdevelcontemporarypersonalities period.
opingself,communicatesmundaneaspects
of life: adolescence, travel, illness, mar251. Perez, Ram6n(Tianguis).( ? ) Diary ofan
UndocumentedImmzigrant.
Translatedby
riage, and divorce.
DickJ. Reavis.Houston,Texas:Arte Puiblico Press, 1991.237 p.
255. Poniatowska,Elena. (1933-) La 'Flor de
Genre:Memoirs
Li." Mexico:EdicionesEra, 1990.261 p.
Periodcovered:1980's
Genre:Autobiographicalnovel
Perez gives one of most complete autobioEvents of "Fleurde Lis"ratherclosely patgraphicaldocumentsof immigrantexperience in U.S.StartingfromOaxaca,he wants
tern author'slife: French Polish ancestry,
removalto Mexico because of WWII,eduto earn money to set self up as carpenter.
For instabilityin gringo environment,he
cation in Mexico and in U.S., two siblings,
attachmentto favorite servant, etc. Even
leads picaresque existence. Moving from
non-Mexicaneducation of bright child is

verifiable.Exoticintrusionof FatherTeufel
upsets ostensible decorum of upperclass
family.
Mature woman remembers happy childhood duringPorfiriato.Innocenceof childhood in wealthyenvironmentproducesdisconnected humorous incidents. Death of
brotheris only sorrow.
256. Portales,UrbanoJ. (1906-) Andaresde usn

falluquero,"autobiografia. Monterrey,
260. PrietoLaurens,Jorge. (1899-)Andcdotas
de
N.L., 1960.2 vols.
Genre:Memoirs
JorgePrietoLaurens.Mexico: Costa-Amic
Editor,1977. 197 p.
Portales is Mexican HoratioAlger. Born
Genre:Memoirs
and reared in poverty,he gained modest
Perioddiscovered:1909-1939
Prieto Laurens constructs loosely tied
living as traveling salesman. In 1935, he
memoir in recounting30 years as revoluopened EmpacadorZapor (cannery) that
made
him
Business
suceventually
wealthy.
tionary (Zapatista) and politician often
cess in Monterreyis subject,not familyor
againstestablishedgovernment.Knowing
personal life. Outside of Abelardo
manyprominentrevolutionariesof period,
he introducesthem in anecdote.Exiledto
Rodriguez,Mexican autobiographylacks
memoirs of businessmen.Secondvolume,
U.S. in 1920s, he worked as radio announcer in Los Angeles. Returning to
concerningtravelsin Europe,revealsless.
Mexico in 1933, he knew Cedillo and fa257. PortesGil,Emilio.(1890-1978)Raigambres
voredJuanAndreuAlmazanforpresidency
de la revolucideen Tamauldzas.:
in 1940.
autobiografia en accidn. Mexico: Lito Offset Fersa,
1972.407 p.
261. Prieto Laurens,Jorge. (1899-) Cincuenta
Genre:Memoirs
af-osdepolitica.-memoriaspoliticas.MdxiPeriodcovered:1895-1932
co: EditoraMexicana,1968.422 p.
Born in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas,
Genre:Memoirs
Portes Gil fixes attentionon native state:
Active politician(senator,head of senate,
schooling,laborproblems,candidacyas national senator, organization of Partido
mayorof FederalDistrict,governorof San
SocialistaFronterizo,agrarianreform,and
LuisPotosi,etc.), PrietoLaurenssupported
three unpopular figures for presidency
governor of Tamaulipas.President from
1928-1930,Portes Gilwritesmemoirstypi(Adolfode la Huerta,Jose Vasconcelosand
cal of politicians: defense of own career
Ezquiel Padilla). In exile as journalist in
Houston, Texas, he writes more history
throughouttext withundigestedmaterials.
than autobiography in comprehensive
Creatingmemoir,he limits self to political
memoirs.
career,not youth.
258. Portilla,Jorge. (1943-) De cuerpoentero. 262. Puga,MariaLuisa.(1944-) De cuerpoenteMexico:EdicionesCorunda,1992.64 p.
Maria Luisa Puga. Mexico: Ediciones
ro."
Genre:Memoirs
Corunda,1990.56 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Writer,translator,alcoholicandprisonerin
Novelistandshort storywriter,MariaLuisa
Lecumberri,Portillatells aboutintellectual
formationin love for readingandhatredof
Puga, as indicatedby subtitleof autobiogschools. An analysisof own solitude origiraphy,"LiterarySpace,"directsself to craft
nates in large unhappyfamilywith parents
and creationof writing.A nomadliving in
superblyvignetted.Portilla,morethanany
majorEuropeancapitals,she goes beyond
otherauthorin series,has senseofsinanduntravelin descriptionfor readeris awareof
worthinesscoupledwithreligiousvisions.
writer'spresence and subjectivereactions
to environment.Workclearly demarcates
259. PradoVertiz de Lezama,Maria. (1904?-)
travelfrom autobiography.Beyond space,
Los aios azules. Cuernavaca,Mexico: M.
Puga journeys to inner self in search of
writer.
QuesadaBrandi,1968.98 p.
Genre:Memoirs
263. Puglia, Mercedes. ( ? ) Angeles cautivos.

Mexico:EditorialDiana,1987. 111 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Authorand social worker,Pugliawrites of
experiences among women prisoners in
Mexico andconcentratingon children.Anecdotal and using much dialogue, she recreates horrorof prisonlife.
Periodcovered:1980s?
Bookfulfillspromiseof title.VisitingTaxco,
Olinala,Atoyac, Chilpancingo,Acapulco
and El Rio Balsas, RamirezHerediacombines geography and tourism. He is
present;he filters all impressionsthrough
subjectivity;he writesin style bothaccelerated and breathless.
268. Rangel, Salom6n H. (1918-) Forfandomi

destino (Apuntes de mi vida). Mexico:
Epessa, 1989.635 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Farmer, journalist, politician, and
Sinarquista,Rangelfollowsformof memoir
in first 122pages of book. Undigestedmisremainder:
cellanea
comprise
and
letters. He
newsclippings, speeches
rose from povertyto become a successful
farmer;he foughtestablishedPRI(Partido
RevolucionarioInstitucional)andits major
265. Quir6s, Carlos Alberto. (1888-1975-Life
representativein San LuisPotosi, Gonzalo
N. Santos (q.v.299).
years of Gaona).Mis 20 affosde torero,;el
librointimode RodolfoGaona.Mexico:Bibliotecapopularde ElUniversal,1925.391p. 269. Rasc6n Banda, Hugo. (1948-) De cuerpo
entero.- Hugo Rascdn Banda. Mexico:
Edicones Corunda,1990.54 p.
Genre:Memoirs
At instance of writer Quir6s, Gaona, a
Leones bullfighter who studied with
Born in Uruachich, Chihuahua, Rasc6n
SaturninoFrutos (Ojitos),narratedhis life
in form of memoir.Gaonabegan career in
Banda,a dramatist,in imaginaryinterview/
1905in Mexico and in 1908went to Spain
inquisitionprofileslife:parentsandgrandparents,experiencesin theater,writingfor
retiringfrom bullringin 1925. Gaonaregisters sensitivityto publicmore than art of
film, and creatingnovels. He concentrates
on dramaand problemsof beginningplayring.Infinalchapter,he meets withPorfirio
Diaz in 1910. Quir6s shares no aspects of
wright.
participationin collectingand editinglife.
270. Rebora,Hip61lito.
(1890?-)Memoriasde un
266. RamirezHeredia,Rafael.(1942-) De cuerchiapaneco.Mexico:EditorialKatiin,1982.
Mexico:
247 p.
po entero.RafaelRamirezHeredia.
Genre:Memoirs
EdicionesCorunda,1990.64 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Simultaneousmemoirsof author-politician
and hometown, Tapachula, Chiapas in
Evenin writingaboutself,RamirezHeredia
Revolutionandaftermath.Goodforpolitics
employs third person and reveals personat a regionallevel.
in
bullinterested
creativity,drinking,
ality
fighting,andwomanizing.He notes schools
andfatherandwriting,an anguishallowing 271. Revueltas,Jos&.(1914-1976) Cartasa Maone to self encounter.
ria Teresa.Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1985.
116 p.
Genre:Letters
267. RamirezHeredia, Rafael. (1942-) Por los
caminos del
vdmonospara Guerrero.
su, EditorialMexicana,1990.
Writerand avowedCommunist,Revueltas
Mexico:Alianza
in posthumouslettersmakesknownself un235 p.
Genre:Memoirs
usual in published autobiography of
264. Quevedo, Miguel Angel de. (1862-1946)

Relatode mi vida.[Mexico?:s.n.] 1943.92 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Famous engineer from Porfiriatohelped
clean port of Veracruzof sandbars,established fish hatcheries and founded and
headed school of forestry. Born in
Guadalajara,
orphanedat an earlyage, and
educatedin France,Quevedoconcentrates
on careerin Mexico.
M6xico.Passionate,frank,loving,unhappy
and criticalof family,he writes to second
wife, MariaTeresa Retes. Postmarksindicate nomadic existence: cities within
M6xico,Berlin,Prague,Budapest,Trieste,
Havanaand SanJose, California.
ist brotherJose (q.v.271, 272) thatcomplements other two sections and yet in tone
andcontenttells as much aboutnovelistas
musician;eighteenlettersproperunaccompanied by responses; and finallybrief essays of Silvestre. All materials locate
Revueltasin music.Violinistandcomposer,
he directednationalsymphony.
272. Revueltas,Jose. (1914-1976)Las evocaciones requeridas(Memorias,diarios, corres(1899-1940)

pondencia).Mexico:EdicionesEra,1987.2 275. Revueltas, Silvestre.
vols.
Epistolario.Recopilaci6ny notas de Juan
Genre:Mixed
AlvarezCoral.Mexico:UNAM,1974.109p.
Genre:Letters
Periodcovered:1937
AlthoughRevueltasshows self in Cartasa
As Secretario General de la Liga de
Teresa and Conversaciones con Josed
Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios
Revueltasand even in RosauraRevueltas's
LosRevueltas,presenttwovolumesforcon(LEAR),Revueltaswent to Europein 1937
centrationon self convey more of personto aidSpanishRepublic.Withbothmastery
and originalityof style, he untimidlyexality.Image is fragmentedbecause of various mediaandvariousdisjunctionsof time
presses thoughtsand emotionsto wifeAnand tone, but prose is sinewy. Topics ingela Acevedo. Postmarked New York,
clude las Islas Marias,site of author'simParis, and Spain,letters comprisesome of
best of 20thcentury Mexico.
prisonmentin 1934;tripto USRRin 1935as
delegate of Mexicancommunistparty;letters to OliviaPeralta,first wife; letters to 276. Revueltas,Silvestre. (1899-1940)Silvestre
Teresa Retes, second wife; Lecumberri;
Revueltas por d/
mismo." apuntes
diarios, correspondencia
twenty-pageautobiography;and letters to
autobiogrdfacos,
y
members of family.
otrosescritosde ungranmzsicso/recopilacidn
de RosauraRevueltas.Mexico: Ediciones
273. Revueltas,Rosaura.(1920-) LosRevueltas
Era, 1989.262 p.
de unafamilia). Mexico:EditoGenre:Autobiography/Diary/letters
(BiografiTa
rial Grijalbo,1980.327 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Althoughmore definitivethan two above,
collection repeats some of same material.
RosauraRevueltasconcentrateson self only
Autobiographicalessay accompanies letin finalsectionof book.In chronologicalorters to musician's family, Jule Klarecy,
der she lists mainevents of life:marriage,
Nicolas SlonimskyandAngel Acevedo,diary of tripto Spainin 1937,diaryof stay in
family, dancing, film, theater, travels,
sanitariumin 1939,andRosauraRevueltas's
Bertold Brecht, Fidel Castro,etc. Always
interviewwithManuelFalc6n,headof saniinterestingnarrative,self portraitis rapid
and sporadic and unreflective. Revueltas
tarium.Excellent photos illustratetext of
also lays bare self in memoirs of other faone memberof brilliantfamily.
mousmembersoffamily:Silvestre,Fermin,
Jose and Consuelo.Rosaurawas especially 277. Reyes, Alfonso. (1889-1959)Berkeleyana.
Mexico:GraficaPanamericana,1953.40 p.
close to Jose, most celebratedmember of
Genre:Memoirs
family.Excerpts from diaries and letters
Periodcovered:1941
makeeach of portraitssemi-autobiographical.
In 1941Universityof Californiaat Berkeley
conferred an honorary doctorate on
274. Revueltas, Silvestre. (1899-1940) Cartas
AlfonsoReyes.Because of commitmentsin
Mexico, authorcould spend limited numintimasy escritos.Mexico:Fondode Cultuber of daystravelingandat Berkeley.Memra Econ6mica,1982. 100 p.
Genre:Letters
oirs recountrapidcar tripand Reyes's enPeriodcovered:1916-1937
counter with tailors and academicians.
Collection with three types of autobioDocumentexhibitsboth writingtalentand
self irony.
graphicalmaterials:introductionby novel-
278. Reyes, Alfonso. (1889-1959) Cartas a la

amples of foolishness in family.Insider's
de AlfonsoReyescon
view of theater.
epistolario
Habana."
Ramos
MaxHenriqtuez
Ure'fa,JosWiAntonio
yforgeMadach.Mexico, D.E: Universidad 282. Rivas Hernandez, Eulalio. ( ? ) Grillosy
NacionalAut6nomade Mexico,1989.160p.
leccionesdepolitico "ala mexicagandallas."
Genre:Letters
na. "Mexico: Costa-AmicEditores, 1984.
374 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Exchange of letters between Reyes and
each of following:HenriquezUrefia,Ramos
and Mafiach.CollectionnaturallyconcenRivasHernandezconcentrateson political
trates on Reyes and shows him generous
life duringcollege career and attemptsto
scholartowardsCubancolleagues.Inletter
give insider's view of politics. Much of
of September20, 1954to Mafiach,Reyesexmemoirs concerns continuationof life beplains abstentionfrom politics afterdeath
yond college.
of fatherBernardoReyes.
283. Rivas Mercado, Antonieta. (1898-1931)
279. Reyes,Alfonsoy VictoriaOcampo.(1889Obrascompletasde MariaAntonietaRivas
1959-Lifeyears of Reyes) Cartas
Mercado. Compiled by Luis Mario
echadas."
1927-1959. Mexico,
D.E:
Schneider. Mexico, D.E, EditorialOasis:
correspondencia,
Universidad Aut6noma Metropolitana,
SEP,1987.466 p.
1983.78 p.
Genre:Diary
Genre:Letters
Collectionof lettersof literateandsensitive
Collectionof letters between two of Latin
woman, patroness of arts, translatorand
America's intellectual luminaries of 20th
writer. Letters, written to artist lover,
Manuel RodriguezLozano,indicate total
century.Withingeneral topic of their creative lives, Ocampo's magazine Sur redevotionanddependenceon a man.Inwellceives much attention.Althoughpersonal
wrought confessions, she brings in Mexitouches relevant to each pervasive
can culture marginallyin New YorkCity
where she associatedwith Mexico's intelthroughoutexchange,Reyesis betterdelineated in two other collections of letters,
lectualexpatriates.Secondeditionhas four
Chac6nand Pedro HenriquezUrefia (q.v.
short stories andportionsof novel.Last27
149).
pages of Obrascomprise intense diary of
RivasMercadoobviouslypenned in Paris
280. Reyes, Alfonso. (1889-1959)El testimonio
just prior to suicide in Notre Dame. Discloses womanconcernedaboutcontempodeJuanPe,7a.Madrid,1923.unpaged.
Genre:Memoirs
rary affairs, determined to follow strict
Periodcovered:1909
schedule of intellectualdevelopmentand
honest aboutsexual emotions.
Second-yearlawstudent,Reyesadjudicates
disputeamongIndiansin Ajusco,Morelia.
Autobiographicalpiece, in its Alfonsine 284. Robles Zarate,Alfredo. (1903-?) 50 ados
style, contrasts Indian and European
despuds...o la Revolucidnen casa. Mexico:
worldsof Mexico,close geographicallyyet
Impresoray EditoraMayo,1964.286 p.
distantpsychologically.
Genre:Memoirs
281. Reyes de la Maza,Luis. (1932-) Memorias
Quotationsandotherundigestedmaterials
de uu peftonto. Mexico: EditorialPosada,
make this anotherprototypicalmemoirof
1984.296 p.
Revolution.Action began with apprehenGenre:Memoirs
sion of seven-year old boy's father in
Zacatecas. Pro-Revolutionary, Robles
Born in San LuisPotosi, Reyes de la Maza
Zarateandfamilyflee villageandnews that
father is safe stabilizes situation. Semi
is critic and historian of theater, headed
memoirsuggests turmoilof one familybeSupervisi6nLiterariade Televisi6nand dicause of Revolution.
rectedradioandtelevisionforgovernment.
Genealogicalresearch, reflectingauthor's
sense of humor, consists of finding ex- 285. Rodriguez,Marcos. ( ?) Yofiempleado de
cuandolosipuestosde serviciopiintellectualdevelopment.In creatingwork

gobierno."
blicoson regalosentrelos amigos.Mexico:
of collective biography, paradoxically
RomeroFloresimpartsownautobiography.
Costa-Amic,1977. 123p.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:1935
289. Ronstadt, Federico, Jose Maria. (1868Governmentemployee claims that anecMemoirsofFedericJose
1954)Borderman.dotes are true but names of participants
Albuquerque:
MariaRonstadt.
Universityof
New Mexico Press, 1993.154p.
changed in confessions. Rodriguez,a uniGenre:Memoirs
versity professor,acceptedjob in bureauPeriodcovered:1864-1889?
cracy at behest of formerschoolmate.Humorous account of rivalry,personalhzmo,
FedericoRonstadtwas born in 1868in Las
and general inefficiency among corbatas
Delicias, Sonora to Frederick August
Ronstadt, a German immigrant and
exposes more of politicalsystem than any
dozen memoirsof politicians.
Margarita Redondo, daughter of
hacendado. Paying attention mainly to
286. Roffiel,RosaMaria.(1945-) Amora.Mdxichildhoodfirst in Sonoraand BajaCaliforco: EditorialPlanetaMexicana,1989.162p.
niaandlaterin Tucson andEl Paso,he regGenre:Autobiographicalnovel
isters life of successful MexicanAmerican
Periodcovered:1988?
growing up on both sides of border.EduSame authorof AyNicaragua,Nicaraguita
cation, frontierviolence, business, family,
friendsand music comprisememoirswith
(q.v.287) discloseslesbianlife in humorous
novel that explores one perspectiveor inregionalhistories of both countries.
terpretationof SapphicMexico.Amoraprofiles degrees of lesbianism between/
290. Rosas Solaegui, Guillermo. (1897-?) CUn
hombre en el tiempo. Mexico: B. Costaamongvariouscharacterswho find males
intrudersandsecondarychoices as lovers.
Amic, Editor,1971.347 p.
nature
Genre:Memoirs
Roffiel,confessingautobiographical
of document,claimsthatalmostallpersona
Native Oaxacan with strong loyalties to
belong to real world.
state,RosasSolaeguiremembersparticipa287. Roffiel,RosaMaria.(1945-)
tion in Revolution.A career military,he
iAyNicaragua,
settled labordisputesin variousprovinces;
Nicaraguita! Mexico, D.F.: Claves
a violinist,he promotedmusic in Oaxaca.
Latinamericanas,1980.122 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Narratinglittleof personallifeandconcenPeriodcovered:1979-1980
tratingon external,he keeps lifewithinlimits of memoir.
JournalistRoffiel,revolting against bourgeoisie upbringing,self encountersin Nicaragua.Inmemoirswith73 chaptersloosely 291. Ruiz,Bernardo.(1953-) De cuerpoentero.Bernardo Ruiz. Mexico: Ediciones
tied, she vignettes moments,personalities
and places in Revolution.Totalimage creCorunda,1990.58 p.
ates worldin disarrayand in belated need
Genre:Memoirs
of change. Staccato-likesentences accelerPeriodcovered:1953-1989
ate both reading and accumulationof imAs a creatorof bothfictionandpoetry,Ruiz
recovers intellectual formation:reading,
pressions.
schooling, dedicationto literaturein col288. RomeroFlores, Jesis. (1885-1987)Maeslege, literaryfriends,contributor/editorto
troy amigos (Recuerdos
y semblanzasde aljournals,andwriting.Lovefor words here
Mexico:
B.
escrtores).
Costa-Amic,
gunos
marginalizesparents,siblings,travel,marEditor,1971.461p.
riage and children.
Genre:Memoirs
Periodcovered:?-1904
292. Salado Alvarez, Victoriano. (1867-1931)
RomeroFlores gives scattereddata of life
de Don VictorianoSalado
Correspondencia
as he moves throughMexico'sintellectual
Alvarez,1894-1931. Estudioy compliaci6n
world.Eachchapter,centeringon single inde JuanL6pez.Guadalajara,
Mexico, 1992.
1168p.
dividual, becomes forum not only for
RomeroFlores'sideas but also momentin
Genre:Letters
296. SandovalAvila,Alejandro.(1957-) De cuerPeriodcovered:1894-1931

Duringencompassedyears,VSAwas senapo entero. Mexico: Ediciones Corunda,
of
state
of
Chihuahua
1992.56 p.
tor,secretarygeneral
Genre:Memoirs
underEnriqueCreel,secretaryin Mexican
Embassy in Washington,and minister to
Poetandnovelist,Sandovalconcentrateson
GuatemalaandBrazil.115letters of VSAto
in
childhood/adolescent
years
variety of individuals including Luis
Gonzalez Obreg6n, Alfonso Junco, and
Aguascalientes.Fromaccumulationof imIgnacio Lozano.Manycorrespondentsapages comes fragmentsof childhood:a secret place,LasNubes,fordrinkingandperpearonly once; some are governmentalinstitutions. Enrique Creel's, Celedonio
versions, illness and recuperationto become a tennis star,fair of Aguascalientes
Junco de la Vega'sandJ. Ballesca'sletters
bulkvolume. Collectionshows VSA'svaluand two interestinggrandmothers.
ablecontacts.No prolongedexchangewith
any one individualallowslittle of personal- 297. Santamaria,FranciscoJavier.(1889-1963)
5 vols.
Memorias,acotacionesypasatiempos.
ity to emerge.
Mexico:ConsejoEditorialdel Gobiernodel
Estadode Tabasco,1981.
293. Samaniego,Leopoldode. ( ? ) Buenos,malos y regulares.-estampassanmiguelenses.
Genre:Memoirs
Mexico: [Norte RevistaHispano-Americano] c.1969.86p.
Historian, lexicographer, bibliographer,
memberof Academiade la LenguaandgovGenre:Memoirs
ernorof homestateof Tabasco,Santamaria
in hybrid form presents slices of life. PoIn short period,authorrecountsanecdotes
of grandparents prior to or during
etry,anecdotesanddiaryentries,however,
Porfiriato.Playfultitlesuggests nostalgiain
combineto personalizevery activescholar.
humorous recall of childhood in picturAnecdotes on childhood in Macuspana,
Tabasco proveto be most engrossing.
esque family.
294. Sanchez Andraka,Juan. (1950?-) Zitlala, 298. Santos,GonzaloN. (1895-1978)Memorias.
Mexico:Grijalbo,1984.975 p.
por el mdgicomundoindigenaguerrerense.
Genre:Memoirs
Mexico:Fondo de ApoyoEditorialdel GoPeriodcovered:1897-1968
biernodel Estadodel Guerrero,1983.144p.
Genre:Memoirs
Self-madepoliticalsuccess, Santoswith no
Periodcovered:1980?
recognizableformaleducationwas senator
from San Luis Potosi, governor of SLP,
SanchezAndrakaconfesses that although
member of executive committee of PNR
not an anthropologist,he writes about of
Indiansof Zitlalanear city of Chilapain Si(NationalRevolutionaryParty),andministerto Belgium.Anex revolutionaryfighting
erra Madres. Interactingwith natives, he
on side of Carranza,Santosnoted an active
producesmore than travelbook.
careerthat placedhim nearmanyof presi295. SanchezSalazar,Leandro.A. (?) AsiasesidentsfromObreg6nto RuizCortinas.Comnaron a Trotski Mexico: Populibros"La
prehensivememoirs,limitedto politicallife
of author,prove some of longest in MexiPrensa," 1955. 256 p. Murder in Mexico
can autobiography.
translated by Phyllis Hawley. London:
Secker andWarburg,1950.)
Genre:Memoirs
299. SierraO'Reilly,Justo. (1814-1861)ImprePeriodcovered:1940
sionesde nuestroviajea los EstadosUnidos
LeandroSinchez Salazar,chief of secret
deAmiricay al Canadd.4 vols. 1850-1851.
service of Mexicanpolice, investigatedasCampeche:PorPedroMendezEchazarreta,
1851.
sassinationof Troksky in August of 1940.
Genre:Memoirs
Unusual in of Mexican autobiography,he
Periodcovered:1847
structureslifelike detectivenovel.Sanchez
Salazarfocuses on assassinationof BolsheProbablyno other Mexicanhas writtenso
vik leader,the captureandconvictionof asextensively over U.S. Like de Toqueville,
sassin.
JustoSierratravelsandcommentson coun-
try now Mexico's enemy:geography,govautobiography.Yet they give glimpses of

ernment, cities, prisons, schools, statesadoringwidow who acquiredprofilemarried to one of most popular presidents.
men, and other more ordinaryhumanbeRetratohumanizesLzaro Cardenasmore
ings.AtmomentofWarwithMexico,Sierra
than eitherApuntesor Epistolario.
belongs to generationstill underinfluence
of ideas of Enlightenmentand admirersof
U.S. He seems to be writingdocumentthat 303. SuArezAranzola, Eduardo. (1894-1976)
will improve fellow Mexicans. Memoirs
Comentariosy recuerdos (1926-1946).
reflect current genres of novel, history,
M6xico:EditorialPorrfia,1977.450 p.
Genre:Memoirs
traveland politicaldiscourse. Outerworld
takes precedence over self.
Lawyerwith career in public service: U.S.
300. Solares,Ignacio.(1945-) De cuerfo entero."
GeneralClaimsCommission,one of Mexican delegates to InternationalMonetary
Igzacio Solares. Mexico: Ediciones
Corunda,1990.55 p.
Commission,Secretaryof Treasury 19351946 and ambassador to Great Britain,
Genre:Memoirs
1965-1970.These serve as center of memPeriodcovered:1949?-1990
Writer(journalist,dramatistand novelist)
oirswhichbetraymoreof periodthanof inSolaresrendersunorthodoxautobiography
dividual.
developingin each chapterexotic themes:
facingdeathwithhumor;spiritism(relating 304.Tablada,Jose Juan. (1871-1945) "Cuarenboth to Solares's father and to Francisco
ta cartasinhditasdeJosdJuanTablada,"in
Madero);existentialsearch for "I,"sexual
Joseduan Tabladaen la intimidadbyNina
fantasies in church;his experiences with
Cabrerade Tablada.Mexico:ImprentaUniversitaria,1945. 117-200.
alcoholism; bullfighting;and sources for
Fromsum of chapGenre:Letters
Casasde encantamiento.
ters emerges puzzlinghumanbeing.
Periodcovered:1926--1928
Poet's letters are for the following:Miguel
301. Su,Margo.(1929-)Altafi'volidad.Mexico:
Arce, Venustiano Carranza, Genaro
Caly Arena,1990. 199p.
Estrada,Jose MariaGonzAlezde Mendoza,
Genre:Memoirs
GuillermoJimenez, RafaelL6pez,Alfonso
Reyes, Victoriano Salado Alvarez,
Writerandfanaticof theater,MargoSu deAlejandroTraslosheros and Artemio de
Valle-Arizpe.Tablada, in letters written
lays few pages to describe Poza Rica,
Veracruzhome of her largefamily.An adofromU.S.to friends,uncoversmuchof personal side.
lescent, she goes to Mexico Cityandseeks
job as chorusgirl. Fromvaudevilleto more
serious"Equus,"
MargoSuhas donegamut 305.Tablada,Jose Juan.(1871-1945)En elpais
delsol.NuevaYork:D.Appleton,1919.149p.
of theaterjobs andgives insider'sperspecGenre:Memoirs
tive on theaterfor40-yearperiod.Marriage,
Periodcovered:1900
familyandtwo sons distractlittlefromthePoet credited with introducing haiku to
ater in vivacious prose and with humor.
Sourcefor popularculture.
Spanishlyricpoetry,TabladavisitedJapan
in 1900.Label"travelbook"underestimates
Retratoinddi302. Suarez,Luis. ( ? )
poetic
qualities of author's prose. LandCdrdenas."
theaterand
scape, temples, costumbrismo,
to, testimoniosdeAmalia Soldrzanode Cdrindividualsemerge alongwith author'sperdenasy nuevosdocumentos.Mexico:EditorialGrijalbo,1987.418 p.
sonalityinprosereminiscentofModernismo.
Genre:Hybrid
306.Taibo,PacoIgnacio.(?) Irapuatomiamor.
Hybriddocumentwithlettersandspeeches
M6xico:EditorialMacehual,1984.72 p.
Genre:Memoirs
of I~zaro Cirdenas,summaryof events by
compiler/authorSuirez andinterviewsand
Fragmentedmemoirof laborsympathizer
testimony of widow,AmaliaSol6rzanode
who workedwithwomenof clothingindusCArdenas.Evenextrapolatedfromtext, interviews and commentswouldmakeweak
try of Irapauto.
307.Tallien,Teresa. ( ? ) Las MAalvinas

zas. Mexico:El agricultormexicoro, 1905.
por dos
114 p.
Maria Sdezde Vernet(1829), Temuieres."
Genre:Memoirs
resa Tallien(1953). Mexico,D.E:Editores
AsociadosMexicanos, 1982. 126p.
Genre:Memoirs
Memoirs,writtenby Indianfighter's son,
Periodcovered:1953
are autobiographyeven though related in
third person.Terrazas,fightingIndiansin
Journalist,Teresa Noriega L6pezTaillen,
became second LatinAmericanwomanto
Chihuahua,producesmemoirstoo factual
and non anecdotal to arouse interest.
write on Malvinasin twenty-eightday trip
in 1953. (Firstwas MariaSaiezde Vernetin
Thoughts or emotionsnever intervene.
1828). Memoirsevidence spunkywoman,
unintimidatedeither by government bu- 312.TinajeroVillasefior,Leonel. (? ) Cotij;,un
reaucracyor lonelinessof locale,recording
puebloyuna epoca.Mexico,D.E: B. CostaAmic, 1971.306 p.
impressionsof controvertedisland.
Genre:Memoirs
308.Taracena,Alfonso.(1897-?) Autobiograffa,
In imaging Cotijade la Paz, MichoacAn,
cuentos.Mexico:EdicionesBotas,1933.187p.
Genre:Memoirs
authorrecovers much of self as receiving
spectatorof town'shistory.Traditionof regional history prevails as Tinajero
Autobiographycomprisesfirst 83 pages of
life of journalist, historian, short story
Villasefior conjurs memories of church,
writerand novelistof Revolution.At age of
death,school,Revolution,Cristeros,family
36 Taracenamixes costumbrismo
withautoanddistinguishedCotijenses.Pastlacksbitterness.
biographicaldatato formmemoirsof childhood in Cunduacin,Tabasco,educationin
San Juan Bautista (Villahermosa) and 313.Tirado,Thomas Charles.(1933-Birthyear
Mexico City,and unsuccessful love affair.
of Celsa) Celsa'sWorld.Conversations
with
some
of
Mexico's
lua
Peasant
Woman.
Arizona:
Mexican
pass
Through pages
Tempe,
minariesin education.
ArizonaStateUniversity,1991.119p.
309.TarangoPonce, Eleazar.(1921-) En el inrio
Mexico:
Peasantwomancollaborateswith U.S. hisCosta-Amic,
Urique.
quieto
1965.78 p.
tory professorinfluencedby Oscar Lewis.
Genre:Journal
Celsawithseveralhusbandsandcohabitors
Periodcovered:1964
andchildren,spent most of life in villageof
San Antonioin centralMexico. Gathering
Author,throughjournal,describes efforts
to conquertreacherousterrainwhich surand organizing peasant view of world,
rounds UriqueRiverand reach its source
Tiradoconfesses:"... I trieda straightchroin Chihuahua. Has adventures but little
nologicalapproach;but foundthatshe was
authorintimacywith landscape.
much more interesting in giving me episodic accountsof her life... (15-16). Thus
he arrangedmaterialsaccordingto his con310.Tavira,JuanPablode. (1945-)A unpasodel
infierno.Mexico:EditorialDiana,1989.161p.
cept of order,not Celsa's.
Genre:Memoirs
314.Topete, Jesus. (1925?-) Aventurasde un
relatosde seis mesesen EstdosUniLawyerauthorhas devotedcareerto penolbracero."
dos.Mexico:EditorialAmeXica,1949.143p.
ogy holding importantpositions in prison
administrationin Mexico City since 1984.
Genre:Memoirs
In first53 pages, "Mividaen los presidios,"
Inone of moreliteraterenditionsof bracero
Tavira,interestedin prisonreform,particularizes experiences among prisoners. ReTopete recounts experiences coinciding
mainderof book focuses on contactswith
with WWIIwhen Mexicanimmigrantsresix fascinatinginmates.
ceived humanetreatment.Topete,leaving
for California,workedas dishGuadalajara
311.Terrazasy Quezada,Joaquin.(1829-1905?)
washer, cook and field hand. Yet he condemns U.S. andespeciallyMexicanAmeriMemoriasdel Sr CoronelD.JoaquznTerra-
cans. Gutierre Tib6n's introductionsets

tone of work.
program,visits to ruralschools, etc. Interesting fornarrativeflowandTorresBodet's

circle of luminaries,memoirs don't compare with Tiempode arena.Reflectionand
stylisticcarein Tiempomakeit one of best.
315.Topete,Jesuis.(1925?-) Terroren elr ielde

El Charroa Vallejo,
pdginasde la luchasindical.Mexico:EditorialCosmonauta,1961.
319.Torri Maynes, Julio. (1889-1970)
302 p.
Genre:Memoirs
"Epistolario."In Difalogo de los libros;
compilador,Serge I. Zaitzeff.Mexico:Fondo de CulturaEcon6mica,1980.82 p.
Polemicalautobiography/novelon government's fight with unions beginning with
Genre:Letters
AvilaCamachoin 1940and continuinginto
Writer,librarian,andprofessorforfifty-one
regimes of MiguelAlemainandAdolfoRuiz
Cortines. Topete, a union man from
years, Torri sustained sporadicfifty-year
livedthroughunion'sstruggle
correspondence with fellow atenez'sta
Guadalajara,
AlfonsoReyeswho wrote15of letters.Both
against"elcharrismo,"or government'simmen, mutual admirers, wrote autobioposingcorruptleaderuponrailway'sunion.
Narratorenvisions struggle fromown pergraphicalletters:moods,teaching,writing,
friendships,bureaucraticobligations and
spectiveanddevotespages to unjustimprisonment.
quotidianactivitiesto earn a living.
316.Torre, Gerardode la. (1938-) De cuerpo 320.Torriente,Lolode la. (1886-1957-Life
years
of Rivera)Memoriay razdndeDiegoRivera.
Gerardode la Torre.Mexico:Edicioentero."
nes
Mexico: Editorial Renacimiento, 1959.
Corunda,1990.70 p.
354 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Short story writerand novelist,Torre outlines life:petroleumworker,Marxist,baseLolo de la Torriente, interviewing Diego
from 1944 to 1947 and centering on early
ballfan,andfather.In document,he recalls
past and intercalatesscenes from present
years, producedfirstoralautobiographyof
in efforts to send son to join Torres's esartist.Writtenin thirdperson,Memoriacan
be labelledas oral autobiographyonly betrangedwife in Cuba.
cause de laTorrientedeclaresit so in introductionin describingrelationshipwith Di317.Torres, Licha. ( ? ) Yo soy testigo.
(Chihuahua, Chih.: Editorial Camino,
ego and somethingof methodology.Existence of text attests to affinitiesbetweenbi1983?)73 p.
Genre:Memoirs
ographyand autobiography.
Periodcovered:1972
LichaTorres makes 20th-centuryconfes- 321.Toussaint,Manuel.(1890-1955)De casa a
sions as a type of born-again Christian.
entre Manuel
casa." correspondencia Mexico:El ColeFrom humble background,she rediscovToussaintyAlfonso
Reyes.
ered Christ,had visions and experienced
gio Nacional,1990. 110 p.
small miracleswithinlife. As a Christ-cenGenre:Letters
tered individual,she notes only aspects of
life relatingto religion.
54 letters, 34 from Toussaint and postmarkedeitherfromEuropeor Mexico,and
20 from Reyes, postmarkedBuenos Aires
318.TorresBodet,Jaime.(1901-1974)AIos conor Mexico, prove lifelong friendship betra el tiempo. Mexico: Editorial Porria,
tween art historianToussaint and Reyes.
1981.246 p.
Genre:Memoirs
"Inthe letters that Toussaint sends reguPeriodcovered:1943-1946?
larly to Reyes we see an excellent correFirst of author's four volume memoir
spondentwho not only gives vividimpreswherein he describes experiences as Secsions but also reveals himself' (p. 12).
retary of Public Education under Avila
Camacho:inexpensiveeditions of classics 322.Trejo,BlancaLydia.(1906-1970)La quevi
forallMexicans,reformof teacher-training
en Espafa. Episodiosdela Guerra.Mexico,
D.E: EditorialPolis, 1940. 140 p.

autobiographiesof this nature."IndiannarGenre:Memoirs
rativestyle involvesa repetitionanda dwellPeriodcovered:1936-1939
ing on unimportantdetailswhich confuse
the White reader and make it difficultfor
JournalistTrejo in Spainas a secretary of
Mexicanconsulbecamedisenchantedwith
him to followthe story" (p. 3).
communist party and even classified
Dolores Ibarruri(La Pasionaria)a fraud. 326. Urbina,Luis Gonzaga. (1864-1934) Hombresy libros. Mexico: El Libro Frances,
Politicallyleft andwithfeelingsforworking
classes andpossiblyanearlyfeminist,Trejo
1923.298 p.
Genre:Memoirs
always appearsto be in conflictwith comrades of like sympathies. Personality
emerges in writingsof visits to Franceand
Journalist,poet and essayist, UrbinainadCivilWarSpain.
vertentlyhas left dispersedmemoirin images and recollectionsof men of letters. In
323. Tufi6n, Julia. (1904-1986-Life years of
recordinglives of best contemporaries,he
entrevista
unveils own personality.Author'sintellecFernandez)En su propio espejo."
conEmilio 'Ellndio"Ferndndez.Istapalpa,
tual personalityat variousmomentsin life
D.E:UniversidadAut6nomaMetropolitana,
emerges from collective reading of vi1988. 116p.
gnettes.
327. Urquizo,FranciscoL. (1891-1969)Madrid
de los a)Fosveinte. Mexico: Costa-Amic,
Fernandezbeganfilmcareerin U.S.during
exile. In Mexico he directed and acted in
1961. 178 p.
several film classics: "Janitzio,""Maria
Genre:Memoirs
"Laperla,"and"Lared."While
Periodcovered:1920s
Candelaria,"
Delightful memoirs of prolificwriter and
Tufi6nin ownwordsgives most of informaCarranzistageneralcontrastto his six milition, her subject, "El Indio" provides
in
data
italics.
book
complementary
Unique
taryautobiographiesforexpressionof tranresultedfrom twentyhours of tapes.
quil time. Althoughhe describes Madrid,
he goes farbeyondtouristguide in individu324. Turrent Rozas, Eduardo. (1892-1974)
alizing Spanish environmentwith several
Veracruzde mis recuerdos.Mexico, 1953.
personalexperiences.
166p.
Genre:Memoirs
328. Urrea, LuisAlberto. ( ? ) Acrossthe Wire.'
LifeandHardTimeson theMexicanBorder.
New York:AnchorBooks, 1993. 190 p.
Self-taught writer nostalgically recalls
PorfirianVeracruz, home of family and
Genre:Memoirs
early employment.Like others of his genauthorandBaptistmissionary
eration,TurrentRozasnotes no socialprobTijuana-born
lems of Porfiriato.
writes of desperate living conditions on
Mexican side of border near San Diego.
325. Underhill,Ruth.(1875?-Birth
Urrea,who grew up both in Tijuanaand in
yearof Maria
Chona) The Autobiographyof a Papago
U.S.,recordsin anecdotesencounterswith
Mexican personalities,their poverty and
Woman.Millwood, New York:Kraus ReprintCo., 1974.64 p.
suffering. Final pages concentrate on
author'sfamily.
Underhill,workingthroughan interpreter, 329. Urrea de Figueroa, Otilia. (1890?-) My
did not quitebalancecultureandpersonalYouthin Alamos.-la ciudadde losportales.
witha WalkingTourofthe Town.Glendale,
ity in 1916anthropologicalstudyof Indians
who straddleMexicanArizonaborder.AlCalif.:Dolisa Publications,1983.74 p.
Genre:Memoirs
though reader can image an individualin
Chona,documentrecords Papagoculture:
Memberof upperclass in Alamos,Sonora
food, hunting,warring,pubertyrites, marriage, and singing. Underhillin introduc(mining center in northwest Mexico),
tionconfesses an insurmountable
barrierin
Urrea de Figueroa led idyllic life before
Revolutionandfamily'sremovalto LosAngeles. Memoirs combine personalexperience with history and environment.
erationwho laterdistinguishedthemselves
in Mexico: Cayetano Andrade, Manuel
Martinez Baez, Antonio Martinez Baez,
EduardoVillasefiorand SamuelRamos.
330. UrzfaizJimenez,Carlos. (1916?-) Crdnicas

de un estudiante de medicina. Merida, 334.ValenzuelaRodarte,Alberto. (1904-) Un
Yucatin:MaldonadoEditores,1983.171p.
mexicanocualquiera,;16 afos en escuelas
Genre:Memoirs
oficiales,40 affos
flsuita. Mexico:Editorial
Jus, 1964.246 p.
Maturem.d.uponrereadingmemoirscomGenre:Memoirs
after
modified
Period
covered:1904-1963
posed shortly
graduation,
them into a less brutaldocument.Present
ValenzuelaRodarte negatively compares
memoir of medical school, teachers, colpublic school training (1908-1924) with
later life in Jesuit Order (1924-1964).Stuleagues andpracticein Yucatanmay share
characteristicswith novel.
dent both in preparatorioand in medical
school, he also taught.A devout Catholic,
331. Usigli, Rudolfo.(1905-1979) Conversaciohe achieved goal of making reader more
nes y encuentros.- Bernard Shaw,
knowledgeableaboutJesuit life.
Lenormand,Jean Cocteau,CliffordOdets,
Andre Breton,Elmer Rice, Paul Munt, B. 335.Vargas Saavedra, Luis. (1889-1959-Life
Traven, TS. Eliot. Mexico: Organizaci6n
years of Reyes) Tande usted.epistolariode
EditorialNovaro,1974. 164p.
GabrielaMistralconAlfonsoReyes.SantiaGenre:Memoirs
go, Chile:Ediciones UniversidadCat61lica
de Chile, 1990.240 p.
Genre:Letters
20th-century dramatist presents self
through contacts with other celebrities.
Bernard Shaw, in interview, recognizes
Over100letters,almostequallydividedbetweentwo illustriouscorrespondents,comUsigli'sgreatnessbeforeMexicodoes. Has
bothmemoirsandinterviewwithIrishplayprise beautifuledition. Arrangedby date
and provenance,1923to 1939:Mexico and
wright.
Europe;1940to 1945:Brazil,Mexico, Italy
332.Val G., E. Franz. ( ? ) Conversacionescon
andNewYork,lettersexude mutualrespect
and even love. They suggest friendship
Maria Sabina y otros curanderos.:hongos
sagrados.Mexico,D.E:PublicacionesCruz
strongenoughto toleratefrankness.Maria
Luis Ibacache in her 1986 dissertation,
0., 1986-1990.170 p.
Genre:Memoirs
"GabrielaMistraly AlfonsoReyes vistos a
traves de su epistolario:una amistadmais
FromFernandoBenitez'sbook Loshongos
looks at the contentsof these
que literaria,"
letters.
alucinantes, author becomes aware of
magic mushrooms. He probes hallucinogenic worldof MazatecIndianthroughcon- 336.Vasconcelos,Jose. (1882-1959) Cartaspoversationswith MariaSabinaand also exliticas defosi Vasconcelos.
y noPreaimbula
tas de AlfonsoTaracena.Mexico: ClIsica
periences hallucinationsby testing mushrooms.
Selecta. EditoraLibrera,1959.312 p.
Genre:Letters
333.Valdovinos Garza,Jose. (1899-1977) La
Vasconcelos, alreadywell represented in
generacidnnicolatitade 1913. Universidad
Michoacana,1959.43 p.
autobiographyin four volumes, continues
Genre:Memoirs
to impartpersonalityin letters to Alfonso
Taracena,journalist,short storywriterand
Dedicatedto rememberingcustoms of nanovelist.Showinga passionate,opinionated
tive Michoacin, ValdovinosGarzarecalls
and choleric Vasconcelos, collection
Revolution(1913).
year of Constitutionalist
complements tomes of autobiography.In
Capturingemotionsof criticalyear,he highgeneral,themesof lettersemphasizefollowlights changes wroughtin venerableacading: abortedpoliticalcampaignof 1929,exile of Vasconcelos and survival in Latin
emy.He names school alumniof 1913gen-
America, hatred of U.S., pro-Spanish 340.Villoro,Juan. (1956-) Palmerasde la brisa

un viajea Yucatdn.Mexico:Alianstance,publicationof severalof books (La
rdpida."
tormentaandEstitica)andunabatedhatred
za
EditorialMexicana,1989.196 p.
of old enemies.Volumealso has documents
Genre:Memoirs
and replies fromTaracena,loyalto volatile
Periodcovered:1989
hero.
Novelist and short story writerVillorohas
roots inYucatan.Inpersonalandsubjective
337.Velasco Ramirez,Rail1.(1933-) Mi rostro
style, he relates pieces of history, travel,
oculto.:RazlVelasco.Mexico:EditorialDiaMayanarcheology,andwordloreof region.
Yet in each delightful chapter, Villoro's
na, 1989.264p.
Genre:Memoirs
presence turns accountinto memoir.
Writer for film magazines, reporter for 341.Viya, Miko. (?) La televisid y yo;,crdnica
Novedadesand El Heraldode M-xico, and
de la televisidnmexicana.Mexico:B. Cost.v. personality for "Confrontaci6n68,"
ta-Amic,1971. 181p.
Genre:Memoirs
"Medianoche,"
"Domingosespectaculares,"
and"Siempreen domingo,"Rail6VelascoinPeriodcovered:1950-1970
tersperses travel,early life, family,and caPlaywrightViyaworkedfortelevisionin all
reer as tv personality.Velascoinvolvesself
aspects of production.He directedover 70
with experiences he portrays,and foreign
soap operas and mentions numerous t.v.
travelresults autobiographicalthroughrepersonalities and other celebrities. Viya,
call of Mexico.
sophisticatedcraftsman,periodicallytraveled to Europeto refreshcreativeenergies.
338.Veray Zuria,Pedro. (1874-1945) Cartasa
mis seminaristas en la primera visita 342. Zaitzeff,Serge I. (1896-1981-Lifeyears of
AntonioCastroLeal)RecadosentreAlfonso
pastoral de la arquididcesis.Barcelona:L.
Gili,1929.628 p.
Reyesy Antonio CastroLeal. MWxico:El
Genre:Letters/Essays
Colegio Nacional,1987.175 p.
Genre:Letters
Elevatedto rankofArchbishopof Pueblain
1924,Veray Zuriawroteletters to seminarDiplomatand man of letters, Castro Leal
ians of Puebla and Queretaro regarding
held prominent positions in both fields.
visit to various parishes in archdiocese.
Comprisedof 94 letters, collectionhas 55
thanautobiography,
lettersfromCastroLeal,40 messages from
Letters,morederrotero
combine religious sentiment, autobiograReyes and one letterfromManuelaReyes.
PedroHenriquezUrefiaintroducedCastro
phy, and features of each parish (Indians,
Lealbothto Englishliteratureandto Reyes.
architecture,art work,and sermons).
Contentof lettersrevealssporadicallyliter339.Villasefior, Victor Manuel. (1903-) Meary life of CastroLeal:books, lectures, edmoriasde un hombrede izquierda.Mexico:
iting an anthology of poetry, societies,
EditorialGrijalbo,1967-77.2 v.
teaching, research and los siete sabios.On
Genre:Memoirs
the contrary,intimateand often expansive
Reyes, at least in othercorrespondence,is
Few can boast of as active a life as
crypticif amicablewith CastroLeal.
Villasefior:law school in U.S., track star,
lawyer at claims commission, chief of ar- 343. Zapata,Luis.(1951-) De cuerpo
entero.'Luis
chives of departmentof interior,charter
Zapata.Mexico:EdicionesCorunda,1990.
member of Confederation of Mexican
71 p.
Genre:Memoirs
Workers,presidentof Amigos de la URSS,
influentialin two periodicals,Futuro and
vice presidentof PartidoPopular,
Combate,
Novelist and short story writer, Zapata
head of railways,etc. Two volumes reflect
grew up in Chilpancingo,Guerrero.Like
more active than personal life of author.
protagonistin Manuel Puig's Betrayedby
Rita Hayworth,Zapataallows films to ocVillasefiorinterpretsmoments of history
he witnessed.
cupy youth and to nurturecreativity.Like
a well craftedfilmscript,autobiographycli-
maxes when authoras child discovers decaying corpse near school.
who developed CentroBohemio, exposes

momentsof life andsomethingof art scene
in Guadalajara.
344. Zavala,Lorenzode. (1788-1836) Via*ea los

EstadosUnidosdelNortedeAmeirica.
Medxi- 346. Zlfiiiga,Olivia.(1916-) Retratode una ni'n-a
co: 1846.272p.Trans.:Journey
to the United
triste.Guadalajara:
Ediciones"Etcaetera,"
StatesofNorthAmerica.Englisheditionby
1951.90 p.
Wallace Woolsey. Austin, Texas: Shoal
Genre:AutobiographicalNovel
Creek Publishers,Ind., 1980.
Genre:Memoirs
novelfluctuatesbetween
Autobiographical
author'sconsultationandconvalescenceat
Politician of liberal stance, Lorenzo de
Mayo Clinicin Rochester,Minnesotaand
Zavalais MexicanAlexis de Tocqueville.In
home in Jalisco.The present,her moments
memoirs Zavalacomments frequentlyon
at clinic,and the past,her childhood,caredifferencebetweenU.S. andMexico.Keen
fully intertwineconfessions. Willfulchild
observer of geography,social classes and
and adolescentpoorlyadjustedto environment make for perceptive and unhappy
politicallife, he focuses entirelyon U.S.
being. Medical treatment in U.S. avails
345. Zuno Hernandez,Jose G. (1891-?) Aneclittle.
dotario del CentroBohemio.Guadalajara, 347. Zhfiiga,Silvia Maria. (1910-Birthyear of
Flores Morales) Casilda la horchatera.
Jal.,Mexico: [s.n.], 1964.79 p.
Genre:Memoirs
[Oaxaca]:Direcci6n Generalde Culturas
Populares,1989.83 p.
Bohemian Center, comprised of seven
foundersand 131 members,offered memPeriodcovered:1890-1988?
Informal oral autobiographyof Oaxacan
bership to chosen ones in arts: painting,
womanwho sold fruitjuices for 40 years at
writing,sculpture,caricature,photography,
Instituto de Ciencia y Artes del Estado.
music, architecture and poetry. InfreBeaten by mother for flirtationswith rich
quently, qualified women even joined.
Some famousnames appearamongassociman'sson, Casildasufferedfromstrictures
ates of ZunoHernandez:XavierGuerrero,
of a class society.Blendingautobiography
Dr. Atl, Heriberto Frias, Roberto
with recall of disappeared Oaxaca, she
evokes personalities and episodes of
Montenegro,Jose Clements Orozco, and
Instituto. Zuifiiga,prompter of work, inDiego Rivera.As artist, caricaturist and
cludes questions for Casilda but spends
journalist, Zuno Hernandez, a founding
member and intimateof many of talented
littletimeon methodologyof oralinterview.

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Mexican Autobiography: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography

Author(s): Richard D. Woods

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Mexican Autobiography: An Essay and Annotated

In spite of the large numberof autobiogstrange,

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golden age of Mexicanautobiography.For

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family;and LydiaMendoza, singer of the

do any of the Mexican women who write

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through family or careers-Inds Amor,

pages, certaincriteriaemerge for selection

denced in Mexico since 1980. Ediciones

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published collections of letters-Gaby

autobiographies.Some of this type of autobiographynaturallyexistedbefore1980and

American who straddles the border or lives

unroll their lives to a custodian/anthropologist or journalist who wants to capture the

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erary worldwhere he either teaches or has

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14. ArreguinVdlez,Enrique. (1907-) Pdginas

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22. Barrios,Elias. ( ? ) El escuadrdzde hierro.

of capturingand translatinglife of another

23. Bassi, Sofia. (1939-) Bassi...prohibidopronunciarsunombre."

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Prolific author and composer from 33. Brambila,David. ( ? ) De la tierra herida.

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anddeterminesto live normally.Gabyinfrequently amplifies with poem segments of

38. Brisefio, Romo. ( ? ) Confidencialmente;,

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53. CardenasD., Hip61lito.

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He focuses on intellectual,creativeandwrit- 73. Chavez,Julio. (1920-)

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tiate workfrom general objectivetravelaccount.

81. Cueva,Eusebio de la. (1893-1943)Por tierras de Quevedoy Cervantes.Monterrey:

77. Cordero,Joaquin.(1926-) Andcdotasde uz

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85. Cuevas,Jose Luis. (1934-)JosdLuisCuevas

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made individual, he speaks of public life

portraits emerge of Frida Kahlo and

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spondencewith Caroand Cuervo,two Colombian scholars of Spanish. Discussing

101.Escobedo, Jose G. ( ? ) La batalla de

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of two close friends.

nar (Perfl de una Wpoca).Guadalajara,

108.Flores, Edmundo. (1918-) Historias de

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Among evocation of past, Garcia autobiographizeseducationand beginnings as

ed] Mexico,J.M.[ortiz,1965] 182p.

117. GarciaIcazbalceta,Joaquin. (1825-1894)

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injusticeon either side of border.

G6mez studied from 1909 to 1914 at San

124. GarzaH., Luis Lauro (1927-Birthyear of