He takes his vulpine identity- zorro is Spanish for "fox"-early on, after a fox delivers him from danger says his grandmother, helpfully, "That zorro is your totemic animal, your spiritual guide.
The child of a Spanish officer and a Shoshone Indian woman, Diego de la Vega grows up with a profound knowledge of the injustices wrought by Europeans on California’s native peoples. Latter-day Californian Allende ( Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, 2004, etc.) provides a backstory that brims with modern concerns: In her hands, Zorro is an ever-so-slightly tormented revolutionary whose sense of justice comes from the accident of his birth. A graceful imagining of the saber-wielding, justice-dispensing freedom fighter of yore.Ĭhildren of the ’50s may happily remember Guy Williams’s TV portrayal of the legendary Zorro, who carved his signature initial into his enemies’ flesh with the point of his sword and kept the entire Spanish army in Alta California busily searching for him.
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