Dew on the Thorn
Title | Dew on the Thorn PDF eBook |
Author | Jovita González Mireles |
Publisher | ARTE PUBLICO Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Limon has taken great care to document his re-construction of the narrative and to provide ample socio-cultural background and bibliography in this clear example of literary archeology.
Dew on the Thorn
Title | Dew on the Thorn PDF eBook |
Author | Marywood College |
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Pages | 62 |
Release | 1940 |
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Dew on the Thorn ...
Title | Dew on the Thorn ... PDF eBook |
Author | Marywood College |
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Release | 1940 |
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Native Speakers
Title | Native Speakers PDF eBook |
Author | María Eugenia Cotera |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0292782489 |
Gloria Anzaldua Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2009 In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved renown in the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, and ethnolinguistics during the 1920s and 1930s. While all three collaborated with leading male intellectuals in these disciplines to produce innovative ethnographic accounts of their own communities, they also turned away from ethnographic meaning making at key points in their careers and explored the realm of storytelling through vivid mixed-genre novels centered on the lives of women. In this book, Cotera offers an intellectual history situated in the "borderlands" between conventional accounts of anthropology, women's history, and African American, Mexican American and Native American intellectual genealogies. At its core is also a meditation on what it means to draw three women—from disparate though nevertheless interconnected histories of marginalization—into conversation with one another. Can such a conversation reveal a shared history that has been erased due to institutional racism, sexism, and simple neglect? Is there a mode of comparative reading that can explore their points of connection even as it remains attentive to their differences? These are the questions at the core of this book, which offers not only a corrective history centered on the lives of women of color intellectuals, but also a methodology for comparative analysis shaped by their visions of the world.
The Born Queen
Title | The Born Queen PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Keyes |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 2008-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345504798 |
In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before. The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success. Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful Marché Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army. But Hansa is the least of Anne’s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Kept–last of the elder Skasloi lords–weaves his own dark webs. Anne’s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anne’s own mounting strength compels her toward madness. Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are many–some with power matching or even exceeding Anne’s own–who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the world’s salvation–or its apocalypse.
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul and Other Stories
Title | The Woman Who Lost Her Soul and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jovita Gonzàlez Mireles |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781611923346 |
The writer Jovita González was a long memeber- and ultimately seved as president- of Texas Folklore Society, which strve to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by González in periodicals such as Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time. Sergio Reyna has brought together more than thirty narratives by González and arranged them into Animal Tales (such as "The Mescal-Drinking Horse"); Tales of Humans ("The Bullet-Swallower"); Tales of Popular Customs ("Shelling Corn by Moonlight); Religious Tales ("The Guadalupana Vine); Tales of Mexican Ancestrors ("Ambriosio the Indian); and Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasure ("The Woman Who Lost Her Soul"). Reyna also provides a helpful introduction that succinctly surveys the authors life and work, analyzing her writings within their historical and cultural contexts.
Exchange
Title | Exchange PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Lagayette |
Publisher | Presses Paris Sorbonne |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Cultural relations |
ISBN | 9782840503590 |
Recueil de textes sur l'échange culturel, symbolique ou matériel. Les auteurs montrent que les échanges peuvent constituer le fondement de l'entente entre les peuples. Des textes analysent cette pratique dans le cadre de relations ethniques, éclairant la situation des Indiens, notamment en Californie et au Mexique.