Campobello, Nellie (1900–1986)

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Campobello, Nellie (1900–1986)

María Francisca "Xica" Moya Luna (Nellie Campobello) was born in Villa Ocampo, Durango (Northern Mexico). She published fifteen poems entitled ¡Yo! under her given name, Francisca, in 1929. She and her sister, Gloria, excelled in dance and became authorities on Mexican folk dance. Nellie was renowned as a dancer and teacher and became director of the National School of Dance, which was renamed in honor of the sisters in 1989. Their collaborative work preserves indigenous Mexican dance and culture, and Campobello's memoirs of the revolution in the North provide a unique firsthand perspective. Campobello's year of birth and the place and manner of her last illness and death remain controversial.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Works

Yo! versos [Francisca, pseud.]. México: Ediciones L.I.D.A.N., 1929.

Cartucho: Relatos de la lucha en el Norte de México. México: Ediciones integrales, 1931; Factoría, 1999; Era, 2001. English version, Cartucho; and, My Mother's Hands. Translated by Doris Meyer and Irene Matthews. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.

Apuntes sobre la vida militar de Francisco Villa. México: Iberoamericana de publicaciones, 1940. This work is also included in Mis libros, below.

Nellie and Gloria Campobello. Ritmos indígenas de México. México, n.p., 1940.

Mis libros "Prologo" Nellie Campobello. 1st ed. Mexico: Compañía General, 1960.

Las manos de mamá. Mexico: Juventudes, 1937; Grijalbo, 1991; Factoria, 1999.

Francisca Yo! El libro desconocido de Nellie Campobello. Edited by Jesús Vargas Valdés and Flor García Rufino. Chihuahua, México: Nueva Vizcaya Editores y la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, 2004.