Maria Cristina Mena and Katherine Anne Porter were two noteworthy authors in postcolonial Mexican Literature, and avid interpreters of Mexican culture. Determining who would be the more accurate interpreter between these two writers will take some reflection. I will be looking at ... romances (The Gold Vanity Set) into ideological critique as in (A Son of The Tropics). This story mainly concentrates towards the ending of the revolutionary period, and does not focus on romanticism and stereotypes as with one of her first works "The Gold Vanity Set." Shortly after Mena quit publishing in 1931,...

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