Survivors in Mexico

by Rebecca West; Edited and introduced by Bernard Schweizer

• ISBN13: 9780300098860
• ISBN10: 0300098863
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This account of Mexico was never completed by its author, but has been rescued from oblivion in this present edition.

Author Biography

Rebecca West (1892-1983) wrote prolifically through most of the twentieth century. Her first novel, The Return of the Soldier (1918), is the only novel by a major woman writer to deal with World War I experiences. West wrote additional novels, journalistic studies of the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg, and a travel memoir/historical meditation on Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, for which she is best known. Bernard Schweizer is assistant professor of English at Long Island University (Brooklyn)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Mexico City	p. 3
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo	p. 8
Leon Trotsky	p. 20
Mexico City II	p. 40
Race Relations I	p. 43
Chapultepec	p. 52
Anthropological Museum	p. 54
Aztec Society	p. 58
Anthropological Museum II	p. 75
Chapultepec II	p. 78
Juan de Zummaraga	p. 85
Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain	p. 92
Minerals and Mines	p. 99
Hernan Cortes	p. 112
Dona Marina	p. 116
Religion and Sorcery	p. 129
Quetzalcoatl	p. 142
Montezuma	p. 146
Tenochtitlan	p. 154
Race Relations II	p. 166
Cuauhtemoc	p. 169
Dr. Atl I	p. 172
Elie and Elisee Reclus	p. 175
Dr. Atl II	p. 185
Revolution	p. 194
Dr. Atl III	p. 199
Benito Mussolini	p. 203
Dr. Atl IV	p. 207
Three Book Reviews	p. 209
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 255
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