Abstract

OLEA FRANCO, Rafael. About that unique alabastrine milk: pulque in Mexican literature of the 19th century. Lit. mex [online]. 2010, vol.21, n.2, pp.203-223. ISSN 2448-8216.

In this essay pulque is analyzed as a motif in Mexican literature, beginning with two of its most extensive representations: the Leyendas mexicanas by José María Roa Bárcena and Los bandidos de Río Frío by Manuel Payno. In this manner it is described how the first writer based his work on myth and legend, while the second performed an extensive costumbrist review based on the broad presence of pulque in the daily culture of the 19th century. In closing, by examining an essay of José Vasconcelos and a narrative passage of Martín Luis Guzmán, the literary decline of pulque is revealed at the beginning of the 20th century in Mexican culture.

Keywords : José María Roa Bárcena; Manuel Payno; 19th century Mexican literature; 20th century Mexican literature; pulque in literature.

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