Baby Coyote and the Old Woman

Baby Coyote and the Old Woman
Title Baby Coyote and the Old Woman PDF eBook
Author Carmen Tafolla
Publisher Wings Press (TX)
Pages 32
Release 2000
Genre Coyote
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Told in both Spanish and English, this story tells of a young coyote who teaches an old woman to recycle when her trash heap begins to clutter his desert.

Sonnets to Human Beings and Other Selected Works

Sonnets to Human Beings and Other Selected Works
Title Sonnets to Human Beings and Other Selected Works PDF eBook
Author Carmen Tafolla
Publisher
Pages 314
Release 1992
Genre Poetry
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Oval Portrait

Oval Portrait
Title Oval Portrait PDF eBook
Author Soleida Rios
Publisher Wings Press
Pages 243
Release 2018-04-01
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1609405587

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The Oval Portrait was originally published as El retrato ovalado (Ediciones Union, Havana, Cuba, 2015). Editor Soleida Ríos set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears in the story as well as the connection (always mysterious) and the symbol with which she has chosen to represent herself." The result, beyond being a postmodernist tour de force, was "a perfect vehicle for introspection." As Ríos herself puts it: "The game requires us to go deep.... Shall we say: Rather than a portrait, construct a mirror, through which you may touch the difficult and shared places. And then, at the end, ask yourself the question: Which are your favorite lies?" By way of example, Jamila Medina Ríos writes in her piece: "I know (I have learned it well) the fate of my grandmother and her aunts, the fate of Maria and my mother, the blossoms of mythical women and women poets, of female warriors, of weak women and of the famous. My head shaved so as not to intimidate her with my abundant hair." The Oval Portrait has been exquisitely translated into English by Margaret Randall. As she writes: "In an era of special interest media and superficial travelogues, I believe The Oval Portrait offers readers a uniquely profound glimpse of the Cuban psyche."

This River Here

This River Here
Title This River Here PDF eBook
Author Carmen Tafolla
Publisher Wings Press
Pages 106
Release 2014-07-01
Genre History
ISBN 1609404009

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San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown—the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries—in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazón in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place. A century ago, San Antonio gave Oscar Wilde "a thrill of strange pleasure." J. Frank Dobie claimed that "every Texan has two hometowns—his own and San Antonio," and Will Rogers declared it to be "one of the three unique cities of America." To Larry McMurtry, "San Antonio has kept an ambiance that all the rest of our cities lack." Carmen Tafolla calls forth the soul of this place—the holy home of the waters, called Yanaguana by los indios—and celebrates the many cultures that have made of it "un rebozo bordado de culturas y colores."

The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans

The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans
Title The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans PDF eBook
Author Carmen Tafolla
Publisher Wings Press
Pages 138
Release 2008
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0916727491

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A collection of short stories set in the Southwest.

North American Indian Life

North American Indian Life
Title North American Indian Life PDF eBook
Author Elsie Clews Parsons
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 479
Release 2013-02-20
Genre History
ISBN 0486148130

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DIV27 fictionalized essays by noted anthropologists examine religion, customs, government, additional facets of life among the Winnebago, Crow, Zuni, Eskimo, other tribes. /div

American Indian Life

American Indian Life
Title American Indian Life PDF eBook
Author Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher
Pages 488
Release 1922
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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This classic study, first published in 1922, presents the writings of A. L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, Clark Wissler, Paul Radin, Truman Michelson, and other prominent anthropologists. The distinguished career of Elsie Clews Parsons and its debt to Franz Boas are considered by Joan Mark in an introduction that also explores the message behind the twenty-seven stories in American Indian Life.