The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa: Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing, (Hardcover)

Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In <i>The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa</i>, we see the famous author as he really was: a careful craftsman of his own image and legacy. His five-volume biography of Villa propelled him to the heights of Mexican cultural life, and thus began his true life's work. Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody shapes this study of Guzman through the lens of "life writing" and uncovers a tireless effort by Guzman to shape his public image.<br> <p><br> <i>The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa</i> places Guzman's work in a biographical context, shedding light on the immediate motivations behind his writing in a given moment and the subsequent ways in which he rewrote or repackaged the material. Despite his efforts to establish a definitive reading of his life and literature, Guzman was unable to control that interpretation as audiences became less tolerant of the glaring omissions in his self-portrait.</p>

• The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa: Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing, (Hardcover)
• Author: Vanderbilt University Press
• ISBN: 9780826520531
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2016-02-22
• Page Count: 224