Chiapas Gothic: Racialised Labour in Rosario Castellanos’ Balún Canán
Ericka Beckman | July 10, 2018
An early scene in Rosario Castellanos’ semi-autobiographical novel Balún Canán (1957), set in the late 1930s in Chiapas, Mexico, evokes a cozy scene of provincial childhood: a group of ladina or European-identified schoolgirls, the daughters of local landowners, sip posol, an indigenous [...]
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