Literatura Mexicana (Oct 2010)
De una singular leche alabastrina: el pulque en la literatura mexicana del siglo XIX
Abstract
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.
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