City of Kings - Rosario Castellanos

[Luke]

City of Kings, Rosario Castellanos, translated from Spanish by Gloria Chacon de Arjona and Robert S. Rudder, 1960s, Mexico, SHORT STORIES

"Set in Ciudad Real—the City of Kings—these stories center on the centuries-old traditions of debasement, and disaster heaped on the Chiapa people by the "ladinos," the "caxlanes," the white men. "Death of a Tiger" mythically recounts the history of the decimation of the Bolometic community, who, driven from their land, become wanderers, until they are finally desperate enough to look for work in Ciudad Real..."

(J.L., p. 269)