ABSTRACT
Adelita Yo tambien was advertised only once in a small listing in Letras and was not awarded any literary prizes. Adelita was quickly forgotten, omitted from all but two histories of Mexican literature, and excluded from the Mexican novelistic canon. The first re-evaluation of the text in over half a century, shows how Adelita could have been interpreted as responding to some of the key issues of the day, including women's suffrage, socialist education and defanaticization, as well as supporting official myths about the unified and ongoing Revolution, had alternative interpretive strategies been adopted. Adelita was published by Ediciones del Grupo en Marcha. The Grupo en Marcha was a left-wing organization of which Delgado was a valued member. Founded by Enrique Othon Diaz in 1931, the group had political as well as literary interests. They carried out social work in several states, including the Federal District, and published books which were 'de interes colectivo'.
