Thermomix – La France Gourmande
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Name: Thermomix – La France Gourmande
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Book:
Title: La France Gourmande – Thermomix
Author: Compilado para: WWW.EXVAGOS.ES
Language: francuski
Year: 2022
Subjects: History, Biography, Social Sciences, Travel, Latin American History, Peoples & Cultures – Biography, Latinos & Latin Americans, Travel Essays & Descriptions, Mexican History, Latinos/Hispanics – Biography, Mexicans & Mexican Americans, Native & Indigenous History – Mesoamerica, General & Miscellaneous Mexican History, Mexicans & Mexican Americans – Biography, Native American Tribes of Mexico – History, Regional Mexican History, Women Travelers – Travel Essays & Descriptions
Publisher: Far West Travel Adventure
ISBN: 9782298078602
Total pages: 91
Description:
"It still serves as a literary travel guide to Mexico, well over 100 years after it was written." – literarytraveler.com
"Life in Mexico" is a travel narrative first published in 1843, which contains 54 letters Fanny Calderón wrote during her two years in Mexico (October 1839-February 1842). It describes the politics, people, and landscape of Mexico through the eyes of a Spanish diplomat’s wife, thus providing a unique lens into the culture, which is why Prescott applauded its ethnographical and historiographical significance.
Frances Calderon de la Barca (1804 -1882) was born to a Scottish family of the nobility and was a 19th-century travel writer best known for her 1843 account, Life in Mexico, which is widely regarded by historians as one of the most influential Latin American travel narratives of the 19th century.
Overall, the account documents class distinctions of Mexican women, perspectives on Indians, and the tumultuous political atmosphere, including two revolutions.
In terms of politics, Calderón pokes fun at the male elite through sarcasm and irony. Appalled by the violence, she focuses primarily on the role of ordinary people rather than political leaders in the revolution, such as the women fleeing the bloodshed and the statesmen and literary figures of Mexican society. Concluding that Spain is integral to Mexico’s functioning as an independent country, Calderón implies an imperialist motive in her writing.
As a woman with Scottish, American, Spanish, and Mexican ties, Calderón crosses the boundaries of nationality, being drawn to Mexican concert balls and indigenous dress. However, she maintains a level of superiority due to her upper-class status, which colors her perceptions of the lower classes.
In another part of the book, Calderón describes the lack of books and available literature found in Mexico. She states, "There are no circulating libraries in Mexico. Books are at least double the price that they are in Europe. There is no diffusion of useful knowledge amongst the people; neither cheap pamphlets nor cheap magazines written for their amusement or instruction." The lack of a well read population may have influenced Calderón’s view of Mexican society as uneducated or unintelligent. This view, as well as many other comments made by Calderón in the narrative, led to the book being negatively received by Mexicans and Spaniards in Mexico after its publication.
Life in Mexico, with its detailed descriptions of Mexican people and terrain, became instrumental to the United States’ war effort during Mexican-American War of 1846-48. In fact, the United States government consulted with Calderón and Prescott personally to gain intel that would eventually lead to the United States’ invasion of Mexico. Today, much of the information that modern historians have about everyday Mexican life in this period comes from these narratives.
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