by Elena Poniatowska · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789684117129
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«Rondas de la niña mala» is a poetry book by Elena Poniatowska, published by Ediciones Era in 2008, in paperback, in Spanish.
It brings together children's singing games and songs that evoke a childhood shaped by discipline (fencing and riding lessons), the fights between sisters, the adoration for the mother, the fascination with the woman who does the washing, and the first discoveries of the body and sensuality, between tenderness and irreverence.
Includes illustrations by Leonora Carrington and Pablo Weisz Carrington. Catalogued under 20th-century Mexican poetry.
For readers of Elena Poniatowska, particularly those who have read Lilus Kikus and wish to rediscover her childhood universe.
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska, is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents. Her mother's family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape World War II. When she was 18, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers and both fiction and nonfiction books. Her best-known work is La noche de Tlatelolco: Testimonios de historia oral, about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her left-wing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
