... this time, the Mexican Revolution was in full play, readers were desperately seeking to be acquainted with the subject matter of Mexico and it's people's native way of life. Furthermore, Doherty affirms how "most writers would write their stories with photographs of Mexico, focusing on the stereotypes of the inept lower ... either the dictator Porfirio Diaz, or the United States." In one of Mena's final stories, which were published in the Household Magazine in 1931, " A Son of the Tropics", sees an enormous shift in reference to the postcolonial view. This story is really different in co...

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