About iQiyi. Help and support. Terms of Service. We use cookies to improve your experience on this site. By continuing to use our website, you agree to our use of cookies. For You. Q Awards. These key plot-points do not distinguish the story from other epics of the revolutionary era. What does distinguish The Nine Guardians is the attention that Castellanos places on shifting from one narrative point of view to another, thus allowing the book to be read as epic, tragedy, or even comedy.
In part, it is structural. At Chactajal the finca it is told through multiple narrators including members of her family, but also in the voice of several Indians on the estate including Felipe and his wife. The result is remarkable for a Mexican novel of this era. As the novel begins and ends with the Ladino point of view, so shall we. Their power and income derive from the fincas , and these are already much reduced even before the threat of agrarian reform.
Rats and possums scurry in the rafters after dark. Indeed, debt is everywhere. One bad harvest and the finca will be lost to creditors. The agrarian crisis, it seems, is the risk that these straitened landowners face even before the Mexican state threatens their livelihoods with agrarian reform.
It is worth lingering on this aspect of the text, at least in part because Castellanos gives us a clear view of the lives of elites under threat, and particularly the way that their own sense of victimhood and casual racism makes the suffering of the vast majority invisible. There is brilliance in her ability to write from the perspective of the landowners. Zoraida feels similarly about the Indians on the finca. The first time I came to Chactajal I wanted to teach the woman who looked after my baby.
Not a word could she get into her head. They are morally weak, cowardly, vain, given to fits of anger. They assert their authority through violence, sexual and otherwise.
He has misread his power on the hacienda, presumed that he can enforce order he actually laments the passing of simpler times, when Indians were more compliant , misread the very nature of the relationship between himself and his subordinates. He assumes that his casual sexual violence only enhances his power he admits to fathering a number of children on the hacienda, and assumes that the women he raped benefited from higher status because of his predations , and is shocked when their children — his children — are among the agitators against him.
He also misreads his ability to turn to local power-brokers to help him in a moment of ruin. Ernesto is even more of a fool, disinterested in any vocation, cowardly, and almost pathetically abusive towards women. He accepts a job as a teacher without any actual interest in being one, proves too squeamish around livestock to be a proper rancher, and takes to drinking prodigiously in the school, inciting mockery from the students, with whom he cannot communicate.
He abuses women in the community, and when he actually impregnates his distant cousin Mathilde, proves unable to save her from nearly drowning in the river on the finca it is a local Indian who pulls her out of the water in spite of his professions of love for her. Later, after beating his students and bringing the crisis on the hacienda to a head, he will come to a fitting end at the hands of his erstwhile charges.
The women fare better, but barely. They are wiser, more worldly, more alert to the dangers they face, but they are also quite unkind to one another. Zoraida is indifferent towards her own daughter, and treats her female servants with complete contempt. Though the family claimed the land, they never did the work, never produced the crops, and had no rightful or just claim to ownership of these lands.
That Zoraida chastises her daughter for looking at something that properly belongs to Mario reminds the reader of the double bind of race and gender that our young protagonist must negotiate. Left unsaid is the fact that in the very act of writing these letters the Indians on the estate have laid claim to the written word, and used Spanish to denounce their overlords.
All we can know is that there is menace in these words, and that they speak to affairs of men to which our narrator is not permitted access ibid. The novel is replete with other hints at trouble. Young male Indians increasingly cross imaginary boundaries in the text, overturning the rules of social deference, if not quite acting defiantly.
We see this illustrated most aptly in an incident by the river on the finca , when a group of Indian boys come across women bathing. Instead of waiting at a distance for the Ladino women to leave, they violate the social order by swimming while the women are still at the river. In this encounter Castellanos reminds us that though the Indians have long played a formal game of deference — convincing the bosses that they are submissive — they are now acting out their refusal to accept the legitimacy of the order in a variety of ways.
In the past these performances relied on the mystical realm. Conjurers, evil spirits, and spells acted as channels for various forms of opposition as well as acting as a means for explaining misfortune as fate. Want to Read. Delete Note Save Note. Check nearby libraries Library. Share this book Facebook. September 28, History. An edition of The nine guardians Subjects History , Fiction , Indians of Mexico. The Nine often represented as the IX , also known as the ennead , are a group of enigmatic entities affiliated with the planets of the Sol System.
They control Unknown Space , a mysterious realm whose nature is poorly understood. The Nine are sentient beings composed of dark matter, which developed cognition after being pulled into loops by the gravity of Sol and its planets.
Their existence is predicated on the existence of those planets, particularly the life that developed on them, as the motions of lifeforms cause gravitational perturbations that drive the Nine's ability to think.
The Nine's primary concern is sustaining their own existence, whether by protecting the life on which they depend or by finding a way to end their reliance on it. Despite their virtual omnipresence within the Sol System and the universe with their influence of Dark Matter, the scope of their power over the world of "normal" matter is limited, and so they primarily act through a handful of agents, emissaries, and associates.
They appear to be capable of freely manipulating the dark matter that composes themselves. At present, the Nine are divided into two factions. The other four seek to free themselves from their dependence on matter-based life and the Light, and to that end have experimented with creating their own realms through spacetime engineering and the creation of dark matter-based black holes, which would serve as gravitational foci independent from those provided by the realm of normal matter.
The Nine appear to have some ability to predict or see the future; the Prophecy Dungeon includes symbolic representations of future events such as the rise of Eramis, Kell of Darkness , the disappearance of Io , Mars , Mercury and Titan following the arrival of the Black Fleet , and the arrival of Empress Caiatl in the Sol System. As revealed by the Nine to Lavinia Garcia Umr Tawil , the Nine originated from streams of dark matter particles passing through the galaxy and the solar system.
As dark matter only interacts with normal matter through gravity, these streams were drawn to the cores of the Sun and its orbiting planets.
The infalling dark matter was then flung back into space, before being pulled in again to form endless loops. These loops formed the basis of emergent consciousnesses that would become the Nine. The Nine did not truly "awaken" until life evolved within the solar system. The movements of life-forms resulted in perturbations to the loops of dark matter particles cycling through each celestial body, creating waves that formed the basis of complex thoughts.
According to Lavinia, the dark matter of the Nine passes through every living thing and every iota of matter in the solar system. The Nine were cognizant of their dependence on all life and the worlds of the Sol System: if that life ended, so too would the Nine as thinking entities.
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