A conversation for SPAN 312 about Mariano Azuela's novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs (Los de abajo). With Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:27 Canonizing Insurgency
04:29 Making Sense of Villismo
09:05 War, Intensity, and Orality
16:39 Melancholy and Refusal
20:22 The Role of the Intellectual
23:24 Credits
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