Nellie Campobello

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Nellie Campobello Luna , baptized Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna ( 1900 or 1909 , Villa Ocampo , Durango - July 9, 1986 , Hidalgo ) was a Mexican dancer and writer .

Life

She was born on November 7, 1900, according to other sources, in 1909 in Villa Ocampo, Durango . The relationship between her parents was never formalized. In Chihuahua she attended the Escuela Inglesa de la Colonia Rosales school , where she had her first appearances as an art dancer. She then lived in Laredo , Texas and then in Mexico City .

As a child, she was confronted with the violence of the Mexican Revolution , which also enabled women to lead more independent lives. Like her mother, she was a fan of Francisco Villas . She processed her experiences in the novels "Cartucho" and "Las manos de mamá" . She is the only woman who contributed to the literature of the Mexican Revolution and received - as a female counterpart to Villa - the nickname "centaura del norte" (centaur of the north). She wrote the book Apuntes sobre la vida militar de Francisco Villa about Villa .

In Mexico City, she and her half-sister Gloria collected indigenous music and dances. She is considered a representative of the " golden age " of Mexican art from the 1920s to 1950s and was friends with artists such as Frida Kahlo , Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco . She founded the ballet Nacional Folklórico. The national Mexican ballet school Escuela Nacional de Danza Nellie y Gloria Campobello is named after the two sisters.

She has not been seen in public since 1984. She lived with Claudio Fuentes Figueroa and his wife and died on July 9, 1986 in Hidalgo , where she was buried in the "Progreso de Obregon" cemetery. Fuentes, who notarized her death, did not inform the public: It was not until 1998 that the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District of Mexico City made her death public. Fuentes then disappeared and was put out to search, but was exonerated from the allegation of kidnapping Campobello.

Campobello was never married, but had several romantic relationships. From a relationship with the future governor of the province of Chihuahua, Alfredo Chávez, a son is said to have emerged, who died in 1921 at the age of two. She is said to have dedicated some of the poems in her volume "Yo, Francisca!"

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c , Investigadores reivindican vida y obra de Campobello , Arturo Garcia Hernandez, February 27, 2005, Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ [1] Redescolar Mexico, Wayback Machine , 2003
  3. ↑ Representations: Cartucho by Nellie Campobello ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, course @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / laii.unm.edu
  4. ^ Juan Rulfo lector de Nellie Campobello: Una hipótesis , University of California, lecture
  5. ↑ a b Writer not reclusive; she died - in 1986. Mexico police seek man and treasure of art , Mark Stevenson, Associated Press, Deseret News , December 25, 1998
  6. ^ Website of the ballet school
  7. ↑ la historia de terror del secuestro y muerte de nellie campobello , editors, proceso.com.mx, January 12, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Campobello, Nellie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campobello Luna, Nellie (full name); Campobello Luna, Francisca Ernestina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican dancer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1900 or 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Villa Ocampo , Durango , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1986
Place of death Hidalgo