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Publications on Indians

The Novel of the Mexican Revolution has long been the focus of considerable study. John Rutherford approaches this subject through An Annoted Bibliography of the Novels of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 (Troy, N. Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1972. Pp. 180). The volume, containing texts in both English and Spanish, and hence with a bibliography that is actually 75 pages long including 146 works, is identified in the Introduction as an effort to update and extend a previous work, Ernest Moore's Bibliografia de novelistas de la Revolucion Mexicana, published in Mexico in 1941. It consists of an alphabetical list of works by author, with an accompanying annotation. There are no indices to provide cross references. Although the annotations vary considerably in length and hence quality, this is quite inevitable in a work of this nature, and in general they are highly effective, providing data on the author and the volume's content. The principal problem involved in a work of this nature is the definition of the novel of the Mexican Revolution. Many scholars will undoubtedly look askance at the definition employed here, for the author fails to distinguish between history and literature. Surely historians will differ with his contention that both portray reality, for this ignores the differing purpose and approaches, not to mention scholarly apparatus and citation form, of these two types of study. Even when both employ historical events, their use of such material is quite distinct, reflecting differing purposes. The author also finds it difficult to distinguish between the memoirs of participants and novels based on personal experience, classifying all as "novelized biographies." Historians will be aghast at the inclusion of the memoirs of such individuals as Alvaro Obregon, Nemesio Gracia Naranjo, Querido Moheno, Miguel Alessio Robles, Jose Vasconcelos, Alberto Pani, and many others in a bibliography of "novels," for these, and even the ghost written memoirs of Victoriano Huerta, can scarcely be placed in the same category with works such as Martin Luis Guzman's Memorias de Pancho Villa, much less of fictionalized versions of the experience of individual soldiers or units in the Revolution. K.J.G.