Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series – serie
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26 produkter
Crossing Vines
A Novel
Inbunden, 2003
348 kr
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In the grim reality of Southern California's grape fields, even the sun is a dark spot. For the migrant grape pickers in Crossing Vines, Rigoberto González's novel that spans a single workday, the sun is a constant, malevolent force. The characters endure back-breaking, monotonous work as they …
Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda and Other Plays
Häftad, 2004
283 kr
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This innovative collection, featuring three plays by Carlos Morton, spans five centuries of Mexican and Mexican American history. In the tradition of teatro campesino, these plays present provocative revisions of historical events.The first play, La Malinche, challenges the historical record of the …
Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap. . . . We grew up listening to the language - usually in the kitchens of extended family - but we answered back mostly …
Men Without Bliss
Inbunden, 2008
332 kr
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In cities and fields, Mexican American men are leading lives of quiet desperation. In this collection of thirteen startling stories, Rigoberto González weaves complex portraits of Latinos leading ordinary, practically invisible lives while navigating the dark waters of suppressed emotion - …
Billy the Kid and Other Plays
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time. …
Block Captain's Daughter
Häftad, 2012
177 kr
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Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. Her campaign platform: God helps those who help themselves. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes …
Randy Lopez Goes Home
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
217 kr
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When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world - and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to …
King and Queen of Comezón
Häftad, 2014
317 kr
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Comezón: It's more than an itch. It's a long-standing desire that will never be fulfilled. And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chávez, it is also a border town in New Mexico whose denizens' longings are as powerful as they are, all too often, impossible.But in the feverish dance of …
Old Man's Love Story
Häftad, 2014
190 kr
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There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife."" From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and deeply personal. The nameless narrator, a writer, shares his most intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together, and her death. But just as …
Poems from the Río Grande
Häftad, 2015
190 kr
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Readers of Rudolfo Anaya's fiction know the lyricism of his prose, but most do not know him as a poet. In this, his first collection of poetry, Anaya presents twenty-eight of his best poems, most of which have never before been published. Featuring works written in English and Spanish over the …
Sorrows of Young Alfonso
Inbunden, 2016
270 kr
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""The world is full of sorrow,"" Agapita whispered to Alfonso.Did she stamp those words into his destiny?The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. What then unfolds is an elegiac song to the llanos of …
Forked Juniper
Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya
Häftad, 2016
329 kr
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Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America's most compelling and prolific authors. A recipient of a National Humanities Medal and best known for his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, his writings span multiple genres, from novels and essays to plays, poems, …
House Built on Ashes
A Memoir
Häftad, 2017
225 kr
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The year is 2009, and José Antonio Rodríguez, a doctoral student at Binghamton University in upstate New York, is packing his suitcase, getting ready to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns from his father that a drug cartel has overtaken the Mexican border …
Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico
Häftad, 2017
238 kr
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In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico's Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley's history and …
ChupaCabra Meets Billy the Kid
Inbunden, 2018
329 kr
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After years of working with at-risk youth, Chicana social worker Rosa Medina leaves Los Angeles's gang-ridden barrios and street violence to settle in the New Mexican village of Puerto de Luna. Her goal: to write a novel about Bilito - Billy the Kid. It all sounds straightforward enough, but things …
Crossing Vines
A Novel
Häftad, 2018
243 kr
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In the grim reality of Southern California's grape fields, even the sun is a dark spot. For the migrant grape pickers in Crossing Vines, Rigoberto González's novel that spans a single workday, the sun is a constant, malevolent force. The characters endure back-breaking, monotonous work as they …
Other Musics
New Latina Poetry
Av Cynthia Cruz
Häftad, 2019
283 kr
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Latina poets occupy an important place in today's literary landscape. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they share an understanding of what it means to exist within the margins of society. As artists, they possess a dedication to their craft and a commitment to experimentation. Their voices - …
This American Autopsy
Poems
Häftad, 2019
177 kr
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In this powerful collection of free-verse poetry, immigrant, poet, and memoirist José Antonio Rodríguez encapsulates the experiences of an artist and citizen caught between two worlds. At once deeply personal and thematically expansive, these works offer a bracing look at the darker impulses of …
Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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"I am continually thinking stories," writes Rudolfo Anaya. "Even when I am working on a novel, the images for stories keep coming."Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya, best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, has also authored a number of …
Sorrows of Young Alfonso
Häftad, 2021
243 kr
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“The world is full of sorrow,” Agapita whispered to Alfonso.Did she stamp those words into his destiny?The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. What then unfolds is an elegiac song to the llanos of …
Essays
Häftad, 2022
283 kr
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“The storyteller’s gift is my inheritance,” writes Rudolfo Anaya in his essay “Shaman of Words.” Although he is best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, his writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 52 essays he draws on both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift …
Mexican Flyboy
Av Alfredo Véa
Häftad, 2016
243 kr
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What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Véa's daring new novel, one man does just that, taking readers on a series of remarkable journeys.Abandoned as a child, …
Men Without Bliss
Häftad, 2022
251 kr
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In cities and fields, Mexican American men are leading lives of quiet desperation. In this collection of thirteen startling stories, Rigoberto GonzÁlez weaves complex portraits of Latinos leading ordinary, practically invisible lives while navigating the dark waters of suppressed …
Essays
Inbunden, 2009
393 kr
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The storyteller's gift is my inheritance,"" writes Rudolfo Anaya in his essay ""Shaman of Words."" Although he is best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, his writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 52 essays he draws on both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift …
Forked Juniper
Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya
Inbunden, 2016
778 kr
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Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America's most compelling and prolific authors. A recipient of a National Humanities Medal and best known for his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, his writings span multiple genres, from novels and essays to plays, poems, …
Mestizos Come Home!
Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity
Inbunden, 2017
352 kr
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia - unable, or unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous populations. In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican …
