Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrn De La Fache... - 9781603295376

Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrn De La FachendaAn MLA Translation\nAuthor(s): Jos Joaqun Fernndez de Lizardi, John Ochoa, Bonnie Loder\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Modern Language Association of America, United States\nImprint: Modern Language Association of America\nISBN-13: 9781603295376, 978-1603295376\nSynopsis\nDon Catrn de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer Jos Joaqun Fernndez de Lizardi [tel], best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrn is three things at once: a rakish pcaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrn, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of.