El canto del zenzontle

Overview & Synopsis

Dolores Castro has a decisive place in Mexican culture and letters. Like Concha Urquiza, Griselda Álvarez, Pita Amor, Amparo Dávila, Guadalupe Dueñas, Margarita Michelena, Margarita Paz Paredes, Rosario Castellanos and Enriqueta Ochoa, Lolita breaks the standards of canonical literary critique and becomes a foundational writer in of the new Mexican poetry written by women who were burn during the first decades of the 20th century. Song of the Mockingbird: A Critical Approach to the works of Dolores Castro, made up of twelve chapters, studies the context in which Lolita was formed, it is an in-depth look of the analysis of the novel La ciudad y el viento (The City and Wind), it addresses its poetry and the dialogue that may be established between its verses and those of other poets such as Gloria Gervitz, Jaime Sabines, Griselda Álvarez, Efrén Rodríguez or José Barocio. We leave in the hands of the readers, this book, with which the “Rescue of Cultural and Literary Heritage” Academic Body 49 of the University of Colima, as well as researchers from other Mexican and American institutions pay homage to the poet, narrator, and essayist, to the “Four hundred voices of the soul” that inhabit her song.