The Nine Guardians

Description:

In the remote towns and haciendas of the high country of Chiapas, the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution had little impact until the reforming governmetn of L©Łzaro C©Łrdenas during the 1930s began pressing for Indian rights and education. A 7-year-old girl watches as the old order -- where a few powerful land-owning families and their male heirs could dominate a region politically and even sexually -- breaks down.

subjects: History,  Fiction,  Indians of Mexico,  Fiction, general,  Mexico, fiction,  Ethnology,  Mayas,  Social life and customs,  Muchachas,  Historia,  Ficción,  Girls

People: Rosario Castellanos

Places: Mexico,  México,  Chiapas

Times: 1910-1946