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- Title: Is Luis Cervantes Queer in Mariano Azuela's Los De Abajo?
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 176 KB
Description
One of Luis Cervantes's many problems in becoming an accepted member of Demetrio Macias's band of revolutionaries in Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo (serialized 1915 in newspaper form in El Paso, Texas; first Mexican book publication 1916) concerns his relationship with the soldaderas, the women camp followers who provide the revolutionaries with logistical support (often on the battlefield itself) and, to be sure, the entire spectrum of female companionship. Cervantes insouciantly fends off the love-sick advances of Camila, and in the end only pretends to seduce her in order to place her at the disposition of the band's leader, Demetrio; Camila in the end seems to find the substitution far from disagreeable (" Hum, pos no le paraba la boca de tan contenta!" [Azuela 1.94]), although she will go on to complain bitterly of having been betrayed by Cervantes. Meanwhile, the men react in a significantly pointed way:
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