Puro Cuento


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Son un total de diecisiete cuentos que integran la colección. México, el paso de un país preferentemente agrícola a uno industrial. En ese proceso surgen hechos curiosos, como el viaje a pie, por más de doscientos kilómetros, de quien emigra del campo a la ciudad en busca de su superación personal y en donde vive, en carne propia, una de las leyendas de aparecidos. En el trasfondo del cuento, está un acercamiento a la situación de los profesores en el medio rural, en la época que se dictó la educación socialista. Pero también se intenta un acercamiento a uno de los pueblos de ese tiempo, contando la historia de una pareja en el medio rural y, ya en la segunda mitad del siglo pasado, una aproximación a las vivencias de los médicos que prestan su servicio social en ese medio. En la actualidad, un episodio ficticio de la lucha zapatista. El crecimiento en las ciudades trae consigo episodios de lucha social, cuando la ilusión de la adolescencia arremete con toda su fuerza para cambiar el mundo, pero también de violencia, en donde se impone la ley del más fuerte. La soledad, la necesidad de afecto, el alma humana con sus pasiones se hacen presentes en la narrativa que se presenta.




Exile, Diaspora, and Return


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Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Exile and Post-Exile in Analytical Perspective -- Chapter 2 - Escape, Deportation and Exile: The Contours of Institutionalized Exclusion -- Chapter 3 - Exile and Diaspora Politics: Mobilizing to Undo Exclusion -- Chapter 4 - Diaspora and Home Country Initiatives, Transnational Networks and State Policies -- Chapter 5 - Surviving Authoritarianism, Contributing to the Agenda of Democratization -- Chapter 6 - Undoing Exile? Remembering, Imagining, Envisioning -- Chapter 7 - The Transformational Role of Culture and Education: Impacting the Future -- Chapter 8 - Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship -- Conclusions -- About the Authors -- Index




Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature


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Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.




Trans-Americanity


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In this book the author critiques the work of various writers within the framework of a globalized study of the Americas.




Historiología Guevarológica


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Sabe Ud. quin fue realmente el guerrillero Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna? S?... No? Historiologa Guevarolgica le descubrir al personaje utilizando una novedosa tcnica biogrfica, nica en nuestro tiempo, desarrollada en versos, y estos versos estn organizados en sonetos, y estos sonetos suman ms de doscientos poemas, y cada uno de esos poemas describa y completa un nmero igual de facetas de la personalidad del Che Guevara, y estas facetas de la personalidad del Che permiten, libre de todo paralogismo, raciocinar un anlisis estructural de la Identidad de semejante sujeto, y, estructurada la Identidad del Che, a conciencia el Lector puede conocer quin fue realmente Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna y tambin alcanzar una visin ms objetiva en sus lecturas sobre dicho socipata. As, sin duda alguna, Historiologa Guevarolgica le mostrar al Lector que todos los seres humanos, sin excepcin, poseen el sobrado potencial analtico como para observar, pensar, meditar y reflexionar en la bsqueda y encuentro de la verdad de nuestras circunstacias y del entorno circundante. Por consiguiente, Historiologa Guevarolgica ofrece una tal visin de la imagen de ese tenebroso Che Guevara, que no permitir que al Lector lo tomen por mediocre mental y engaen dicindole que ese sicpata esquizofrnico paranoico, misntropo, asesino sdico, delincuente, aberrado sexual, canalla, falsante,... era un hombre noble que, apostlicamente, luch y muri en defensa de los pobres y que, por lo tanto, merece ser beatificado y canonizado; y que, de igual modo, para que compre todo objeto que simbolice a ese monstruo, como medallas, estampas, logos, afiches, t-chers, escarapelas, boinas, libros, canciones,... pues con ello se colabora al enriquecimiento del capitalismo aptrida y mercenario, colaborador secular encubierto de revolucionarios y terroristas por y para negocios.




Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives


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Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction examines four novels by Erna Brodber, Zoé Valdés, Sandra Cisneros, and Maryse Condé. In this unique comparative analysis, Kristina S. Gibby explores the significance of female ghosts—specifically maternal figures, who haunt female narrators, inspiring them to transcribe the dead’s obfuscated (hi)stories and recover their family memory. The author argues that these female ghosts subvert historiographic power structures through a matrilineal succession of knowledge via oral traditions of storytelling, inevitably broadening historical consciousness and asserting the value of fiction in the face of historical rupture. Gibby contends that in form and content, these novels disrupt patriarchal and Western expectations of time and epistemology. They favor cyclical temporality (highlighted by the spirits’ uncanny return), which underscores relational understanding and challenges the exclusive and limiting constraints of linear time. This book makes important contributions to inter-American literary criticism with its narrow focus on female authors who confront the horrors of history through maternal spirits.




Have You Seen Marie?


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The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman’s search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother’s death. The word “orphan” might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like “a glove left behind at the bus station.” What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, “Have you seen Marie?” the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning. With full-color illustrations that bring this transformative quest to vivid life, Have You Seen Marie? showcases a beloved author’s storytelling magic, in a tale that reminds us how love, even when it goes astray, does not stay lost forever.




New York Magazine


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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.




Critical Essays on Chicano Studies


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This book explores the most recent critical and theoretical approaches in the field of Chicano studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions go back to the 4th International Conference on Chicano Literature which took place in Sevilla in May 2004. They deal with a wide variety of topics and approach the subject from diverse viewpoints. Some examine specific literary texts by major Chicano authors from feminist, comparative and close-reading approaches, others discuss ideological and cultural issues like folklore, ethnicity, identity, sexuality or stereotypes, while yet others focus on artistic manifestations like films and murals. Furthermore, the volume also includes an interview with the Chicana writer Ana Castillo. The main goal of this collection is to find new cultural possibilities and strategies while exploring future dilemmas in the field of Chicano Studies.




Latina Self-portraits


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Embracing Chicana, Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers and writers descended from a combined U.S. and Latin American heritage, Latina literature is one of the fastest growing and most exciting fields in fiction. This literature is characterized by revisionist views of recent history, a concern with exile and borders, a blending of genres, and a complex understanding of the term feminist. In these ten interviews, Kevane and Heredia give writers the opportunity to talk about how they began to write, the craft of writing, the conjunction of life, art and politics, literary influences, and their goals as artists. Readers will meet Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Helena María Viramontes. The writers' personal and literary journeys vividly portrayed in these interviews will enrich and enhance the readers' understanding of this exciting field. The volume also includes bibliographies of the writers' work.