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Author : Rafaela Castro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195146395
Originally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Author : Linda Watts
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781646930005
Folklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings, games, rituals, beliefs, and ways of life. Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to this popular subject. This comprehensive reference guide addresses the needs of multiple audiences, including high school, college, and public libraries, archive and museum collections, storytellers, and independent researchers. Its content and organization correspond to the ways educators integrate folklore within literacy and wider learning objectives for language arts and cultural studies at the secondary level. This well-rounded resource connects United States folk forms with their cultural origin, historical context, and social function. Appendixes include a bibliography, a category index, and a discussion of starting points for researching American folklore. References and bibliographic material throughout the text highlight recently published and commonly available materials for further study. Coverage includes: Folk heroes and legendary figures, including Paul Bunyan and Yankee Doodle Fables, fairy tales, and myths often featured in American folklore, including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Princess and the Pea" American authors who have added to or modified folklore traditions, including Washington Irving Historical events that gave rise to folklore, including the civil rights movement and the Revolutionary War Terms in folklore studies, such as fieldwork and the folklife movement Holidays and observances, such as Christmas and Kwanzaa Topics related to folklore in everyday life, such as sports folklore and courtship/dating folklore Folklore related to cultural groups, such as Appalachian folklore and African-American folklore and more.
Author : Rafaela Castro
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000068988652
Articles on the folklore and culture of Chicanos and Mexican Americans describe terms and concepts that represent folk speech and narrative, cultural tradition, and rituals practiced in the United States.
Author : Maria Herrera-Sobek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1438 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313343407
Latino folklore comprises a kaleidoscope of cultural traditions. This compelling three-volume work showcases its richness, complexity, and beauty. Latino folklore is a fun and fascinating subject to many Americans, regardless of ethnicity. Interest in—and celebration of—Latin traditions such as Día de los Muertos in the United States is becoming more common outside of Latino populations. Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions provides a broad and comprehensive collection of descriptive information regarding all the genres of Latino folklore in the United States, covering the traditions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Mexico, Spain, or Latin America. The encyclopedia surveys all manner of topics and subject matter related to Latino folklore, covering the oral traditions and cultural heritage of Latin Americans from riddles and dance to food and clothing. It covers the folklore of 21 Latin American countries as these traditions have been transmitted to the United States, documenting how cultures interweave to enrich each other and create a unique tapestry within the melting pot of the United States.
Author : Nicolàs Kanellos,Claudia Esteva-Fabregat,Francisco LomelÕ
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611921635
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023419907
Author : Matt S. Meier,Margo Gutiérrez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313088605
Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive coverage of the Mexican American experience. Entries range from figures such as Corky Gonzales, Joan Baez, and Nancy Lopez to general entries on bilingual education, assimilation, border culture, and southwestern agriculture. Court cases, politics, and events such as the Delano Grape Strike all receive full coverage, while the definitions and significance of terms such as coyote and Tejano are provided in shorter entries. Taking a historical approach, this book's topics date back to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a radical turning point for Mexican Americans, as they lost their lands and found themselves thrust into an alien social and legal system. The entries trace Mexican Americans' experience as a small, conquered minority, their growing influence in the 20th century, and the essential roles their culture plays in the borderlands, or the American Southwest, in the 21st century.
Author : Norma E. Cantú,Olga Nájera-Ramírez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252070127
The first anthology to focus specifically on the topic of Chicana expressive culture, Chicana Traditions features the work of native scholars: Chicanas engaged in careers as professors and students, performing artists and folklorists, archivists and museum coordinators, and community activists. Blending narratives of personal experience with more formal, scholarly discussions, Chicana Traditions tells the insider story of a professional woman mariachi performer and traces the creation and evolution of the escaramuza charra (all-female precision riding team) within the male-dominated charreada, or Mexican rodeo. Other essays cover the ranchera (country or rural) music of the transnational performer Lydia Mendoza, the complex crossover of Selena's Tejano music, and the bottle cap and jar lid art of Goldie Garcia. Framed by the Chicana feminist concept of the borderlands, a formative space where cultures and identities converge, Chicana Traditions offers a lively commentary on how women continue to invent, reshape, and transcend their traditional culture.
Author : Rafaela Castro,Norma Elia Cantú
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610698053
From cultural icons like Americo Paredes to the traditional Mexican birthday song, Las Mañanitas, this book provides an A-Z guide to Chicano folklore, including cultural icons, foodways, music, and much more. Chicano folklore reflects a syncretism of indigenous and Spanish culture. Despite countless Spanish terms or titles, native beliefs also serve as the backbone of Chicano culture. This book covers a wide range of areas on Chicano folklore, such as historical topics, contemporary beliefs, and secular concepts, as well as religious beliefs and iconography. It covers such a wide range of concepts that readers may learn about cultural beliefs, such as children's fears of La Llorona or El Cucuy, alongside religious beliefs, such as the centrality of the Virgen de Guadalupe and folk saints like Juan Soldado. Features more than 200 reference entries on Chicano folklore Includes images depicting Chicano cultural life Features Further Readings in all entries to assist students with additional research
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476622682
“Here there be dragons”—this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.
Author : Luis Leal
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810124189
Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature and culture. This volume, bringing together a representative selection of Leal’s writings from the past sixty years, is at once a wide-ranging introduction to the most influential scholar of Latino literature and a critical history of the field as it emerged and developed through the twentieth century. Instrumental in establishing Mexican literary studies in the United States, Leal’s writings on the topic are especially instructive, ranging from essays on the significance of symbolism, culture, and history in early Chicano literature to studies of the more recent use of magical realism and of individual New Mexican, Tejano, and Mexican authors such as Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, José Montoya, and Mariano Azuela. Clearly and cogently written, these writings bring to bear an encyclopedic knowledge, a deep understanding of history and politics, and an unparalleled command of the aesthetics of storytelling, from folklore to theory. This collection affords readers the opportunity to consider—or reconsider—Latino literature under the deft guidance of its greatest reader.
Author : Nicolás Kanellos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313087004
From East L.A. to the barrios of New York City and the Cuban neighborhoods of Miami, Latino literature, or literature written by Hispanic peoples of the United States, is the written word of North America's vibrant Latino communities. Emerging from the fusion of Spanish, North American, and African cultures, it has always been part of the American mosaic. Written for students and general readers, this encyclopedia surveys the vast landscape of Latino literature from the colonial era to the present. Aiming to be as broad and inclusive as possible, the encyclopedia covers all of native North American Latino literature as well as that created by authors originating in virtually every country of Spanish America and Spain. Included are more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries written by roughly 60 expert contributors. While most of the entries are on writers, such as Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Oscar Hijuelos, and Piri Thomas, others cover genres, ethnic and national literatures, movements, historical topics and events, themes, concepts, associations and organizations, and publishers and magazines. Special attention is given to the cultural, political, social, and historical contexts in which Latino literature has developed. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. The encyclopedia gives special attention to the social, cultural, historical, and political contexts of Latino literature, thus making it an ideal tool to help students use literature to learn about history and cultural diversity.
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253203732
Includes material on interpretation methods and presentation of research.
Author : Guillermo Hernandez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292746114
Geographically close to Mexico, but surrounded by Anglo-American culture in the United States, Chicanos experience many cultural tensions and contradictions. Their lifeways are no longer identical with Mexican norms, nor are they fully assimilated to Anglo-American patterns. Coping with these tensions—knowing how much to let go of, how much to keep—is a common concern of Chicano writers, who frequently use satire as a means of testing norms and deviations from acceptable community standards. In this groundbreaking study, Guillermo Hernández focuses on the uses of satire in the works of three authors—Luis Valdez, Rolando Hinojosa, and José Montoya—and on the larger context of Chicano culture in which satire operates. Hernández looks specifically at the figures of the pocho (the assimilated Chicano) and the pachuco (the zoot-suiter, or urbanized youth). He shows how changes in their literary treatment—from simple ridicule to more understanding and respect—reflect the culture's changes in attitude toward the process of assimilation. Hernández also offers many important insights into the process of cultural definition that engaged Chicano writers during the 1960s and 1970s. He shows how the writers imaginatively and syncretically formed new norms for the Chicano experience, based on elements from both Mexican and United States culture but congruent with the historical reality of Chicanos. With its emphasis on culture change and creation, Chicano Satire will be of interest across a range of human sciences.
Author : Charles M. Tatum
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816536528
"An updated and expanded edition of Tatum's Chicano Popular Culture (2001), touching upon major developments in popular culture since the book's original publication"--Provided by publisher.