LAS DIFERENTES EDICIONES DE LA SOMBRA DEL CAUDILLO ...

señalado J.Bruce—Novoa, las dos novelas de M.L.Guznián producto del
exilio revolucionario juegan un papel fundamental en la
configuración de las características y temas que luego desarrollará
el. movimiento político y cultural chicano:
El águila y la semiente and La sombra del
caudillo are both bitter, though subtle
denunciations of the failure of the
Revolution. Both novels end with the character
who represents the author seeking or finding
refuge in the United States (...) Years later,
with the advent of the Chicano Movement, sorne
of these characteristics resurfaced: the sense
of exile fron the true land, mixed with a need
to justify one’s existence. me latter was
accomplished by repeated references to the
betrayal of the Revolution and the formulation
of a concept of new honeland whicb was sonehow
the authentic México. Aztlán vas the
mythological synbol of this rhetorical
manipulation of the exile esperience into one
of homeard pilgrimage. And Lozano’s metaphor
of the rísing sun whích his exile group would
make rise ayer México sonteday found resonant
echoes in the Chicano piblishing honse Quinto
Sol, which was meant to represent not only the
appearance of a new cultural renewal for the
Mexicano community living in the United
States, but the fulfillment of the best of
Mexican culture itself. Yet, with few
exceptions, the Chicano Movement also seemed
to side wíth the ideals of tSe
Revolutionaries, not the Porfiristas —and
certainly not tSe Huertistas!- preferring its
heroes ½ the form of Villa and Zapata, and
its ideology in the figures of tSe Flores
Magón brothers. (Bruce—Novoa, 1989b:154)
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