A dawn does not come to a woman without children? A Mexician woman writer's tactics in The Book of Lamentations.

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  • <産まない>女に夜明けは来ないのか？ : 『真夜中の祈り』を通して見る作家の戦略
  • <ウマナイ>オンナ ニ ヨアケ ワ コナイ ノ カ? : 『 マヨナカ ノ イノリ 』 オ トオシテ ミル サッカ ノ センリャク

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Rosario Castellanos’ The Book of Lamentations (1962) is highly regarded as an “indigenista” novel. Indigenista novels depict the realities of indigenous peoples’lives and attempt to recover their voices and rights. Set in post-revolutionary Chiapas, Mexico in the late 1930s, the novel captures the power relations and conflicts between the Ladino landowners and indigenous insurgents spurred by agrarian land reform. However, the novel goes beyond the indigenista genre, centering on two characters’ separate struggles to find their place in society: an indigenous sterile woman who desires to have a child, and an educated common-law wife who refuses to have a baby. Focusing on the expected roles of women, and in particular the role of childbirth, in this study I would like to reassess The Book of Lamentations, viewing it not exclusively as an indigenista novel, but also as a work about and for women, both indigenous and Ladino, who seek to answer what it means to be a Mexican citizen, revealing their indignation against a society that has long marginalized Ladino women and doubly marginalized indigenous women.

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