De Los Otros


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A detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations.




Otros Seres


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The reader will find in this anthology a diversity representative of the new Hispanic sensibility being formed in the three Americas. Spanish has become an extensively used language, crossing frontiers with workers that migrate through regions, helping to unite these beings separated by nationalities but who are brothers because of common feelings and the same cultural and linguistic heritage. The poetry in this book performs a reparative role, trying to come closer to another being, the spirit of creativity, and make it more a part of the poetic self. It does so through the magic of the lyrical word. El lector encontrará en esta antología una diversidad representativa de la nueva sensibilidad hispana en formación en las tres Américas. El español se ha vuelto una lengua de uso extendido, que cruza las fronteras con los trabajadores que se desplazan por su territorio, ayudando a unir a estos seres separados por las nacionalidades pero hermanados por un sentir común y una misma herencia cultural y lingüística. La poesía aquí tiene un papel reparador, tratando de acercar al otro y hacerlo más íntimo para el yo, mediante la magia de la palabra poética. Because the anthology is thematic, its poetic form is eclectic. The poets come from distinct poetic schools, employ different styles. Juana Arancibia writes verse that is reflective and unpretentious, a manner fostered by her regional roots and the poetry of Northwest Argentina for which she is a passionate spokesperson. Rubén Vela cultivates a stirring Poetry Americana that defends American values and is linked to the great movement initiated by Neruda in his Canto General. Ester de Izaguirre creates poetry that is intimate, colloquial and urban, idiomatic to the area of Rio de La Plata. José Cuervo associates more with Hispanic poetry written in North America, Chicano poetry, in which social meditation bears priority over the form of verse. Fitzgerald expresses great affection for nature, a common theme in the poetry of his country and enters into a transcendental poetic dialog with creation, cultivating impressive images of exquisite construction. Porque la antología es temática su forma poética es heterogénea, los poetas vienen de distintas escuelas poéticas, cultivan estilos diferentes. Juana Arancibia escribe una poesía reflexiva y sencillista derivada de sus raíces regionales, la poesía del noroeste argentino, de la que es continuadora; Rubén Vela cultiva una poesía americanista, de defensa de los valores americanos, vinculada al gran movimiento que inició Neruda en su canto General; Ester de Izaguirre escribe una poesía intimista, coloquial y urbana, rioplatense; José Cuervo se vincula más a la poesía hispana escrita en Norteamérica, la poesía chicana, en que la meditación social tiene prioridad sobre la forma; Fitzgerald, poeta norteamericano, expresa el gran amor a la naturaleza de la poesía de su país, el diálogo trascendental del poeta con la creación y cultiva imágenes visuales llamativas de exquisita factura. Alberto Julián Pérez, Ph.D. Texas Tech University




Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters


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This is a rarity in contemporary writing, a truly bilingual enterprise, as in Susana Chávez-Silverman’s previous memoir, Killer Crónicas. Chávez-Silverman switches between English and Spanish, creating alinguistic mestizaje that is still a surprise encounter in the world of letters today, and the author forms one of a small but growing band of writers to embrace bilingualism as a literary force. Also like Killer Crónicas, each chapter in Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles is a “crónica,” a vignette that began as intimate diary entries and e-mails and letters to lovers, friends, and ghosts from the past. These episodic chapters follow the Chávez-Silverman’s personal history, from California to South Africa and Australia and back, from unfathomable loss to deeply felt joy. Readers drawn into this witty book will confront their own conceptions of boundaries, borders, languages, memories, and spaces. Honorable Mention, Best Biography in Spanish or Bilingual, International Latino Book Awards





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The Moths and Other Stories


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The adolescent protagonist of the title story, like other girls in this pioneering collection, rebels against her father, refusing to go to Mass. Instead, dressed in her black Easter shoes and carrying her missal and veil, she goes to her abuelitaÍs house. Her grandmother has always accepted her for who she is and has provided a safe refuge from the anger and violence at home. The eight haunting stories included in this collection explore the social, economic and cultural impositions that shape womenÍs lives. Girls on the threshold of puberty rebel against their fathers, struggle to understand their sexuality, and in two stories, deal with the ramifications of pregnancy. Other women struggle against the limitations of marriage and the Catholic religion, which seek to keep them subservient to the men in their lives. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop as women fight„with varying degrees of success„to break free from oppression. Shedding light on the complex lives and experiences of Mexican-American girls and women, this bilingual edition containing the first-ever Spanish translation of ViramontesÍ debut collection, The Moths and Other Stories, will make this landmark work available to a wider audience.







Spanish Grammar


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The most practical Spanish grammar book for students and teachers wishing to master the Spanish language. Rules to Master the Spanish Language clearly illustrates and explains more than 700 rules that you need to know to achieve language mastery. Today, 600 million people speak Spanish around the world, and this new book by Jose Pallás will surely prove to be an extremely useful source of information for Spanish students and teachers worldwide. Unsure about masculine and feminine nouns? Can’t get your head around all those verb tenses? Puzzled by the subjunctive? Unravel the mystery behind definite and indefinite articles. Pronouns. Adverbs. Prepositions. Adjectives. Conditionals. Conjunctions. This comprehensive guide to mastering the Spanish language has it all. Spanish grammar in use Rules to Master the Spanish Language features: - Example sentences that clarify each grammatical point - Spanish grammar in use for self-study and practice - The most common mistakes made in Spanish - Both American and European Spanish Spanish grammar book 1. Nouns. 1.1. Gender of nouns. 1.2. Number of nouns. 1.3. Derivative nouns. 1.4. Noun phrases. 2. Adjectives. 2.1. Derivative adjectives. 2.2. Gender and number of adjectives. 2.3. Degree of adjectives. 3. Determiners. 3.1. Articles. 3.2. Demonstratives. 3.3. Possessives. 3.4. Quantifiers. 3.5. Indefinite determiners. 3.6. Numerals. 4. Pronouns. 4.1. Personal pronouns. 4.2. Object pronouns. 4.3. Reflexive pronouns. 4.4. Possessive pronouns. 4.5. Relative pronouns. 4.6. Interrogative and exclamatory pronouns. 4.7. Indefinite pronouns. 5. Adverbs. 5.1. Positive and negative adverbs. 5.2. Adverbs of degree. 5.3. Relative adverbs. 5.4. Interrogative and exclamatory adverbs. 6. Verbs. 6.1. Derivative verbs. 6.2. Tenses. 6.3. Copulative verbs. 6.4. Impersonal verbs. 6.5. Irregular verbs. 6.6. Modal verbs. 7. Prepositions. 8. Conjunctions. 9. Sentences. 9.1. Compound sentences. 9.2. Comparative sentences. 9.3. Conditional sentences.




Experimental Writing


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This project comes from our need to harness voices in Africa and Latin America, giving these voices an opportunity to converse, argue, synthesize, agree, and share ideas on the craft of writing, on life, on being, on thinking, so that we will all benefit. Sixty-two writers and poets are included, of which 19 were purely fiction writers, six were mixed genres writers, one a non-fiction writer, one a playwright, and 35 are poets. Altogether there are 92 pieces in two languages: English and Spanish.




A Concordance to Juan Ruiz Libro de Buen Amor


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This book represents the first concordance of Juan Ruiz's Book of Good Love (Libro de Buen Amor), written in the fourteenth century. The volume's editors, dealing with three slightly different manuscripts, have chosen to meticulously integrate the language from all three editions into one thorough concordance. The result is a significant work that serves as a companion to Ruiz's work that would be vital to any study of medieval Spanish linguistics. In addition to the usual material to be found in a concordance, this book has the following features: the text appears in diplomatic transcription from the manuscripts, for fidelity, while the entry list of words has been partly normalized as for spelling, for convenience; an extensive list of homographs; no omission of high frequency words; frequency list at the end; no reproduction of bulky and difficult computer printout. The book has been photocomposed from the tape.




Experiencias de Vida


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En mi experiencia se expresa la experiencia de mundo. Por eso cabe, a cada quien, abrirse a ese ver. Este es el primer paso para fijar esa mirada que nos permite reconocer la propia voz, siempre inesperada en su verdad y sencillez. Las experiencias de este libro aparecen como ensayos cortos, en su primer capítulo, con experiencias pensadas según el carácter común que estas tienen en la vida de cualquier persona: las creencias, el ansia, el temor, el diálogo, la muerte, el ocio, la incomprensión, la paz. En el segundo capítulo comparto experiencias personales, según las viví, en Madrid, Medellín, Lisboa, o Tokio, contando con algunas expresiones poéticas.