Product Description: El inconformismo político y social expresado en Los heraldos negros, adopta en Trilce un marcado sentido estético, o que constituía una de las vías de los poetas de las vanguardias latinoamericanas para manifestar su puesta en cuestión de unos valores tradicionales y unas instituciones generalmente opresivas para los individuos...read more

As Spain's New World colonies fought for their independence in the early nineteenth century, an anonymous author looked back on the earlier struggle of native Americans against the Spanish conquistadores and penned this novel, Xicoténcatl. Writing from a decidedly anti-Spanish perspective, the author describes the historical events that led to the march on Tenochtitlán and eventual conquest of the Aztec empire in 1519 by Hernán Cortés and his Indian allies, the Tlaxcalans.Xicoténcatl stands out as a beautiful exposition of an idealized New World about to undergo the tremendous changes wrought by the Spanish Conquest. It was published in Philadelphia in 1826. In his introduction to this first English translation, Guillermo I. Castillo-Feliú discusses why the novel was published outside Latin America, its probable author, and his attitudes toward his Spanish and Indian characters, his debt to Spanish literature and culture, and the parallels that he draws between past and present struggles against Spanish domination in the Americas. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Originally published anonymously in 1826, this historical novel written in Spanish follows Hernan Cortes and his conquest of Mexico, his encounter with, his deception of and his alliance with the people of Tlaxcala, whom he used to defeat Moctezuma and the Aztecs