Tales of Borinquen (puerto Rico)
Author : Mrs. Elizabeth Kneipple Van Deusen
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Puerto Rico
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Author : Mrs. Elizabeth Kneipple Van Deusen
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Puerto Rico
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Author : Edith Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Puerto Rico
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Author : María Teresa Babín
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Collections
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
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A collection of 12 legends drawn from Puerto Rico's history.
Author : Alicia Pousada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443896071
The Spanish-speaking island of Puerto Rico (also known as Borinquen) has had a complex linguistic landscape since 1898, due to the United States’ colonial imposition of English as the language of administration and education. Even after 1948, when Puerto Rico was finally permitted to hold its own gubernatorial elections and determine its own language policies, controversy regarding how best to achieve bilingualism continued. Despite many studies of the language dynamic of the island, the voices of the people who actually live there have been muted. This volume opens with a basic introduction to bilingualism, with special reference to Puerto Rico. It then showcases twenty-five engaging personal histories written by Puerto Rican language professionals which reveal how they became bilingual, the obstacles faced, the benefits accrued, and the linguistic and cultural future they envision for themselves and their children. The closing chapter analyzes the commonalities of their richly detailed stories as well as the variability of their bilingual life experiences in order to inform a more nuanced language policy for Puerto Rico. The linguistic autobiographies will resonate with bilinguals of all kinds in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as those in other countries. The main message that emerges from the book is that there are many routes to multilingualism, and one-size-fits-all language policies are doomed to miss their mark.
Author : Osvaldo García-Goyco
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1477175083
Cuentos de los dioses taínos: como se creó el Mar Caribe es una divertida fantasía profusamente ilustrada basada en el misterioso mundo mitológico de los indios taínos de Puerto Rico y las Antillas Mayores. La trama está inspirada en la obra de Fray Ramón Pané Relación Acerca de las Antigüedades de los indios (1494-98), que formó parte del diario de Cristobal Colón. Las ilustraciones del cuento, por el fenecido joven pintor puertorriqueño Juan Negrón, fueron elaboradas mediante un guión visual del autor. Incluye además el autor un educativo glosario ilustrado. Tales of the Taíno Gods: How The Caribbean Sea Was Born, is an entertaining fantasy, based on the mysterious mythological world of the Taíno Indians of Puerto Rico and the Greater Antilles. The plot is inspired by the writings of Friar Ramón Pané’s An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians (1494-98), which was part of Christopher Columbus’ diary. The illustrations of the tale were painted using a visual script by the author, who directed the skillful brush of the late young puertorrican painter Juan Negrón. The author also includes an illustrated educational glossary.
Author : Peter E. Siegel
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817352384
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Author : Harriet Rohmer
Publisher : Children's Book Press (CA)
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780892390267
A Taino Indian legend about a young boy and his search for the healing caimoni tree.
Author : Nina Jaffe
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781558854529
Presents the creation myth of Boriquâen, or present-day Puerto Rico, an island inhabited by Taino Indians before the conquests of Christopher Columbus.
Author : Charlie Vázquez
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2020-01-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781660227082
These stories range from tales told to the author as a child, to fictional accounts interweaving erotica, fantasy, and suspense elements in the rural and urban Gothic; part homage to the ancestors who lurk immortal in family folklore, part stories of imagination where specters emerge from the darkness to taunt and torment. From the terrors of the Great Depression to the devastation following Hurricane María, these tales chronicle the resistance and spirit of the Puerto Rican people; a testament to survival and perseverance in the face of disaster and the phantoms awaiting us when we turn off the lights. "Charlie Vázquez revisits the history of Puerto Rico and its diasporas, telling the stories of our dead. Using a textual tonality that brings Edgar Allan Poe and Horacio Quiroga to mind, Vázquez creates wonderfully crafted stories about souls who perish in the Great Depression, young widows drowned in hurricanes, soldiers recruited for medical experiments, and ladies of the night succumbing to vice. With an all-encompassing eye, Vázquez digs deep into various moments in Puerto Rican history to tell the stories of our terror, stories that endure in the realm of phantasms, trapping the living in a limbo that also turns them into transparent, yet present, traces of collective trauma. Finally, a book about our persisting ghosts written with a clarity that can help us conjure collective memory so we can move forward."Mayra Santos-Febres, author and founder of Festival de la Palabra de Puerto Rico