Mirrors Beneath the Earth
Title | Mirrors Beneath the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Ray González |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Mirrors Beneath the Earth is an historic and unique collection of contemporary Chicano fiction: 31 stories depicting the richly varied experiences of Mexican-Americans in the U.S. Some, like Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, are already celebrated writers. The special strength of this anthology is that it introduces others who have never before been published in book form, like Ana Baca, Patricia Blanca, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, and Natalia Trevino. These writers open our eyes and enrich our understanding.
Mirrors Beneath the Earth
Title | Mirrors Beneath the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Ray González |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Mirrors Beneath the Earth is an historic and unique collection of contemporary Chicano fiction: 31 stories depicting the richly varied experiences of Mexican-Americans in the U.S. Some, like Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, are already celebrated writers. The special strength of this anthology is that it introduces others who have never before been published in book form, like Ana Baca, Patricia Blanca, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, and Natalia Trevino. These writers open our eyes and enrich our understanding.
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies
Title | Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Pat Brady |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2002-11-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0822383861 |
A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies, a book bringing together Chicana feminism, cultural geography, and literary theory to analyze an unusual mix of Chicana texts through the concept of space. Beginning with nineteenth-century short stories and essays and concluding with contemporary fiction, this book reveals how Chicana literature offers a valuable theoretics of space. The history of the American Southwest in large part entails the transformation of lived, embodied space into zones of police surveillance, warehouse districts, highway interchanges, and shopping malls—a movement that Chicana writers have contested from its inception. Brady examines this long-standing engagement with space, first in the work of early newspaper essayists and fiction writers who opposed Anglo characterizations of Northern Sonora that were highly detrimental to Mexican Americans, and then in the work of authors who explore border crossing. Through the writing of Sandra Cisneros, Cherríe Moraga, Terri de la Peña, Norma Cantú, Monserrat Fontes, Gloria Anzaldúa, and others, Brady shows how categories such as race, gender, and sexuality are spatially enacted and created—and made to appear natural and unyielding. In a spatial critique of the war on drugs, she reveals how scale—the process by which space is divided, organized, and categorized—has become a crucial tool in the management and policing of the narcotics economy.
Latina
Title | Latina PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Castillo-speed |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1995-08-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0684802406 |
Thirty Hispanic stories by women writers. They range from Mary Ponce's Just Desserts, about a woman whose date turns sour, to Lucha Corpi's Epiphany: The Third Gift, on a girl who lacks femininity and the effect this has on her family.
Glass Works
Title | Glass Works PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Bosveld |
Publisher | Pudding House Publications |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781589981423 |
El Paso Del Norte
Title | El Paso Del Norte PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Yañez |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0874179041 |
The Chicano characters in Richard Yañez's debut story collection live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders—between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death. The teenaged narrator of "Desert Vista" copes with a new school and a first love while negotiating the boundaries between his family's tenuous middle-class status and the working-class community in which they have come to live. Tony Amoroza, the protagonist of "Amoroza Tires," wrestles with the grief from his wife's death until an unexpected legacy fills him with new faith. María del Valle, "La Loquita," the central character of "Lucero's Mkt.," crosses the border into madness while her neighbors watch, gossip, and try to offer—or refuse—aid. Yañez writes with perfect understanding of his borderland setting, a landscape where poverty and violence impinge on traditional Mexican-American values, where the signs of gang culture strive with the ageless rituals of the Church. His characters are vivid, unique, fully authentic, searching for purpose or identity, for hope or meaning, in lives that seem to deny them almost everything. Yañez's world is that of the Southwestern Chicanos, but the fears and yearnings of his characters are universal.
Latino Writers and Journalists
Title | Latino Writers and Journalists PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie Martinez Wood |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 1438107854 |
Provides short biographies of Latino American writers and journalists and information on their works.