Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846343
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist: A wide-ranging collection of essays on the Mexican American experience by the acclaimed Chicano author. Once a struggling journeyman carpenter, Dagoberto Gilb has won widespread acclaim as a crucial and compelling voice in contemporary American letters. Known for his novels and short stories, he has also been a prolific essayist for publications such as Harper’s Magazine and the New Yorker, as well as a popular commentator on NPR’s Fresh Air. In Gritos, Gilb collects some of his finest works of nonfiction. Spanning twenty years of output, the entries are divided into four sections: “Culture Crossing,” “Cortés and Malinche,” “The Writing Life,” and “Working Life and La Family.” Tackling everything from cockfighting to Cormac McCarthy, Gritos offers a startling portrait of an artist—and a Mexican American—working to find his place in both the literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his strange and beloved borderland of Texas. While “Dagoberto Gilb might be speaking for himself . . . he speaks so well that what he says becomes universal” (Houston Chronicle). “[Gritos] is a collection about prejudice and pride, told with the flair of a storyteller known for his fiction. . . . [Gilb’s] prose is easy-flowing and thoughtful. He can be unbelievably funny. . . . What he has to say and how he says it is so interesting, you can’t help but pay attention.” —Marta Barber, The Miami Herald “An arresting essayist, he is unabashedly himself, and his zest for life, passion for illuminating Mexican American culture, and seductive storytelling skills infuse his astute observations, reminiscences, and critiques with compelling energy and momentum.” —Booklist
Author: Ricardo Sánchez
Publisher:
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Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Author: John Andrew Morrow
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443838330
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Religion and Revolution provides a comprehensive study of spiritual and political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work studies the relationship between Thomas Merton and Ṣūfism, Cardenal’s connection to spiritual Islām, as well as the Ṣūfī sources cited in his Cosmic Canticle. The work equally examines the impact of political Islām on his ideology, focusing particularly on his trip to Iran during the very triumph of the Islāmic Revolution. Using Cardenal’s “Interlude of the Revolution in Iran” as a starting point, the work provides a vivid and detailed description of the early days of the revolution as well as the ties between the Islāmic Republic of Iran and the Latin American left.
Author: University of Missouri
Publisher:
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez
Publisher: Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV
ISBN: 6077627291
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Un grito desesperado es la novela sobre relaciones familiares más trascendente de los últimos tiempos. Gerardo y Saúl son hijos de un médico prestigioso. Pero tienen un problema: no saben comunicarse con su padre. Por otro lado, su mamá es una mujer amorosa incapaz de poner normas de disciplina en casa. La historia de la familia Hernández es parecida a la de muchas, en la que existe autoritarismo y distanciamiento de los padres; rebeldía y falta de respeto de los hijos; hostilidad y burlas entre hermanos; discusiones hirientes; prolongados periodos de indiferencia. Pero el drama de esta familia se complica en una vorágine de sucesos que los lleva a situaciones extremas de las que ninguna familia está exenta. En la lectura de esta novela lector hallará un testimonio impactante e importantes conceptos de aplicación real.
Author: Migdalia Cruz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578049929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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EL GRITO DEL BRONX & OTHER PLAYS collects for the first time three plays and one song-poem by celebrated Nuyorican poet-playwright Migdalia Cruz. With an introduction by eminent Latino scholar Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez and afterword by theatre scholar Priscilla Page, this is an invaluable addition to the field of US Latina/o drama and all of American theatre.
Author: Daniel C. Scroggins
Publisher: [Columbia] : University of Missouri Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Antonio José Quintana Velasco
Publisher: Antonio José Quintana Velasco
ISBN: 8461562143
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 8047
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Spanish-English-latin completed
Author: Sigfredo Soto
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463362188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Inmerso en los intricados laberintos de la moral humana, la ética, la justicia, el conocimiento científico y el uso de los mismos con propósitos ulteriores, el autor nos adentra en un mundo cuasi mágico en el que nuestros sentidos nos dictarán el desenlace del crimen cometido. Cada lector tendrá la oportunidad de sentir a flor de piel cada instancia de los acontecimientos en la vida de los personajes que el autor retrata con sus letras. Un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes adolescentes cuyos talentos se combinan, creando un círculo de hermandad y un código secreto el cual unirá sus vidas y cambiará el curso de éstos para siempre. Ese hermetismo y complicidad, con el tiempo logra transformar ese código en el instrumento y causal de un crudo y escalofriante crimen. Sigfredo Soto nos plantea la distorsión que pueden sufrir nuestras estructuras sociales, morales, éticas, religiosas y de justicia cuando son arropadas por el deseo de poder, venganza y ambición. ¿Lograrán la justicia y el bien prevalecer?
Author: Christen A. Smith
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477328327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region. Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the Anglophone North. Black Feminist Constellations is a passionate and necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art, and political organizing by Black women everywhere. In essays, poems, and dialogues, the writers in Black Feminist Constellations reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume’s methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black women come together to theorize the world and challenges the notion that the university is the only site where knowledge can emerge. A major work of intellectual history, Black Feminist Constellations amplifies rarely heard voices, centers the uncanonized, and celebrates the overlooked work of Black women.
