The RebelThe Rebel, by Leonor Vilegas de Magn—n, is the autobiography of the Mexican-American feminist and pacifist who served as a nurse in the Mexican Revolution and became active in Texas politics and culture. Originally written in the 1920s but never published, The Rebel stands as one of the few written documents which consciously challenges misconceptions of Mexican Americans. |
Contents
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Adolpho Comes into the Rebels Life | 56 |
A Blessing for the Rebel | 70 |
Revolution across the River | 80 |
The Rebel Is Concerned | 145 |
Supper with Ángeles | 154 |
The White Cross Is Nationalized | 165 |
Resignation | 190 |
War Flares Again | 202 |
Fitful Winds of Dissension | 212 |
The Pattern Is Completed | 223 |
Chronology of Events Surrounding the Mexican Revolution | 231 |
Laredo and the Constitutionalistas | 93 |
The Rebel Meets Carranza | 107 |
Villa the Peoples Idol | 120 |
The Girl Whom the Sergeant Adored | 133 |
BioBibliography of Historical Characters | 247 |
Autobiographies of the Mexican Revolution Published between 1920 and 1955 | 285 |
Glossary | 288 |
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Page 4 - This is the place," they yelled, banging on the gate with the butts of their guns. "Open the gate! Open!" Don Joaquin, a prudent man, ordered the gate opened. Pancho, the mozo, was accustomed to obeying orders, but he hesitated. "Go, Pancho. Open the gate." Slowly Pancho proceeded to accomplish the task which was always so easy, but tonight his trembling fingers refused to pull the heavy lock that held the door tight. "Senor,
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Page 5 - His cup, Pancho. We do not want our friends to leave thirsty." Don Joaquin held out his hand for the empty cup. "Ah, we are not leaving yet, Senor. Not until we have searched the house." The leader nodded to his men who forgot their wine and jumped up. Don Joaquin pushed through the men and started toward the door near the gate, but the men were already attracted by a closed door across the patio, where voices were heard coming from within. "Open this door, senor," commanded the boldest one making...
Page xlii - word," "thing" and "act," and its root meaning involves the notion of driving forward something that initially is held-back. This is the word as a moral act, a true word that is at once an object or thing and a deed or act.
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Page xxi - ... determining force in the continuation of Mexican slavery. Thus does Mexican slavery come home to us in the full sense of the term. For the horrors of Yucatan and Valle Nacional, Diaz is to blame, but so are we; we are to blame insofar as governmental powers over which we are conceded to have some control are employed under our very eyes for the perpetuation of a regime of which slavery and peonage are an integral part. In order that the reader may understand the Diaz system and its responsibility...
Page liii - Del Rio" con un buen bagaje de armas y parque; y mientras tanto, animaba a los hombres del lugar con fogosos discursos, preparandolos para la accion. 16See Jose Limon's excellent analysis of the Idar family's political activism in "El Primer Congreso Mexicanista de 1911: Precursor to Contemporary Chicanismo,
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