Crazy Chicana In Catholic City

Author : Juliana Aragon Fatula
Publisher : Conundrum Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0971367841

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Crazy Chicana in Catholic City by Juliana Aragon Fatula Pdf

"Juliana Aragon Fatula writes histories so terrifying they feel as if they were written with a knife. She writes with craft and courage about what most folks are too ashamed to even think about, let alone talk about. Her fearlessness is inspirational. This is the kind of poetry I want to read; this the kind I want to write. She makes me feel like writing poetry " -Sandra Cisneros From "Crazy Chicana in Catholic City": Mom once took a bullet for a cookie. Grandma had an apron full of cherries. Auntie hung the wash. Lee fed the chickens. Zeke cleaned his rifle. Mom searched the cupboards. She was only three feet tall. She stood on the sink, tried to reach high in the sky for oatmeal cookies. Crack - like a lightening bolt had hit a cottonwood tree. Her blood was everywhere: on the cupboards, floor, cookies, hands. Grandma ran down the hill but she fell. She rolled, she rolled, she rolled; just like a tortilla. She ran in the house saw Zeke had wrapped mom's legs in torn sheets while mom ate cookies. The bullet went in the left leg, out the back, and through the right leg, four holes, total. That's why you should never clean a rifle in the house: bloody cookies.

Author : Heidi Barr
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781506482552

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Collisions of Earth and Sky by Heidi Barr Pdf

Research indicates that spending time in a natural setting provides a plethora of benefits, from lower blood pressure to increased immunity to an enhanced sense of well-being and happiness. People who appreciate nature tend to experience more moments of joy and are more innovative. Being connected to nature helps us be more fully human and better planetary citizens. But the pace of our lives often leaves little room for connecting with nature, and our history of colonization complicates our relationship to the landscapes we inhabit. Collisions of Earth and Sky is an invitation to live in a way that is attuned to nature, paying attention to what's going on inside ourselves and in the larger collective. Guided by wellness coach and poet Heidi Barr, it is a journey of self-inquiry for digging into our origins and roots, figuring out what it means to be a good community member--both to other humans and to our nonhuman neighbors--and integrating those truths and lessons so we can add to the healing of the world. Barr shows us a way to let nature be an ally in living well, offering hopeful inspiration to continue our own path of self-discovery. A collection of reflections, poetry, and invitations to discovery, Collisions of Earth and Sky calls you to celebrate what it is to embrace wildness as an integral part of being fully alive.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822043168186

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The Western Humanities Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Juliana Aragon Fatula
Publisher : Bower House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1942280238

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Red Canyon Falling on Churches by Juliana Aragon Fatula Pdf

In this High Plains Book Award winning collection of poems, a combination of nature, spirituality, myth, and ritual are combined with a no-holds-barred honesty. The poems discuss the difficulties of escaping the bonds of race and gender to prevail in an unjust world for a female Hispanic writer. Experiences are shared within that are wondrous, spirited, comic and disturbing.

Author : Anthony Macías
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816547234

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Chicano-Chicana Americana by Anthony Macías Pdf

This exciting new cultural history documents how Mexican Americans in twentieth-century film, television, and theater surpassed stereotypes, fought for equal opportunity, and subtly transformed the mainstream American imaginary. Through biographical sketches of underappreciated Mexican American actors, this work sheds new light on our national character and reveals the untold story of a multicentered, polycultural America.

Author : Nieves Pascual Soler,M. Abarca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137371447

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Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food by Nieves Pascual Soler,M. Abarca Pdf

As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation.

Author : Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295109

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Teaching Late-Twentieth-Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez Pdf

Mexicana and Chicana authors from the late 1970s to the turn of the century helped overturn the patriarchal literary culture and mores of their time. This landmark volume acquaints readers with the provocative, at times defiant, yet subtle discourses of this important generation of writers and explains the influences and historical contexts that shaped their work. Until now, little criticism has been published about these important works. Addressing this oversight, Teaching Late-Twentieth-Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers starts with essays on Mexicana and Chicana authors. It then features essays on specific teaching strategies suitable for literature surveys and courses in cultural studies, Latino studies, interdisciplinary and comparative studies, humanities, and general education that aim to explore the intersectionalities represented in these works. Experienced teachers offer guidance on using these works to introduce students to border studies, transnational studies, sexuality studies, disability studies, contemporary Mexican history and Latino history in the United States, the history of social movements, and concepts of race and gender.

Author : Kristi Belcamino
Publisher : Polis Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781943818686

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City of Angels by Kristi Belcamino Pdf

Nikki Black, 17, a self-imposed lone wolf since her mother died, fled suburban Chicago to escape her painful past. But when her so-called boyfriend reveals why he really lured her to Southern California — to star in child porn flicks — she ends up on the streets of L.A. with only the clothes on her back and a twelve-year-old addict named Rain trailing in her shadows. The girls seek refuge at a residential hotel above a punk rock bar in downtown L.A. a few months before the city erupts into chaos during the 1992 riots. At The American Hotel, Nikki makes friends and for the first time in years feels as if she has a real family again. All that changes when Rain disappears. Everyone except Nikki, including the police, thinks Rain succumbed to the seductive allure of addiction and life on the streets. Nikki finds herself fighting for her own life the closer she gets to unveiling a sinister cover-up by a powerful group that secretly controls the city of angels. City of Angels is an edgy, gritty, mature Young Adult mystery about a teenager’s struggle to not only belong — but survive.

Author : Francisco A. Lomelí,Carl R. Shirley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023662450

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Chicano Writers by Francisco A. Lomelí,Carl R. Shirley Pdf

Devoted to literature produced by writers of Mexican descent born in the United States, living here permanently, or having lived in the territory which until 1848 was part of Mexico.

Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345807199

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

Author : Luis D. León
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520935389

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La Llorona's Children by Luis D. León Pdf

Luis D. León's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. León theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas and practices developed in the ancient Mesoamerican world. León proposes what he calls a borderlands reading of La Virgen de Guadalupe as a transgressive, border-crossing goddess in her own right, a mestiza deity who displaces Jesus and God for believers on both sides of the border. His energetic discussion of curanderismo shows how this indigenous religious practice links cognition and sensation in a fresh and powerful technology of the body—one where sensual, erotic, and sexualized ways of knowing emphasize personal and communal healing. La Llorona’s Children ends with a fascinating study of the rich and complex world of Chicano/a Pentecostalism in Los Angeles, a tradition that León maintains allows Chicano men to reimagine their bodies into a unified social body through ritual performance. Throughout the narrative, the connections among sacred spaces, saints, healers, writers, ideas, and movements are woven with skill, inspiration, and insight.

Author : Eric Zolov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216100416

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Iconic Mexico [2 volumes] by Eric Zolov Pdf

Going far beyond basic historical information, this two-volume work examines the deep roots of Mexican culture and their meaning to modern Mexico. In this book, readers will find rich, in-depth treatments by renowned as well as up-and-coming scholars on the most iconic people, places, social movements, and cultural manifestations—including food, dress, film, and music—that have given shape and meaning to modern Mexico and its people. Presenting authoritative information written by scholars in a format that is easily accessible to general audiences, this book serves as a useful and thorough reference tool for all readers. This work combines extensive historical treatment accompanied by illuminating and fresh analysis that will appeal to readers of all levels, from those just exploring the concept of "Mexico" to those already familiar with Mexico and Latin America. Each entry functions as a portal into Mexican history, culture, and politics, while also showing how cultural phenomena have transformed over the years and continue to resonate into today.

Author : Marta E. Sanchez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520340886

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Contemporary Chicana Poetry by Marta E. Sanchez Pdf

In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term 'Chicana' refers here to women of Mexican heritage who live and write in the United States. The works of four contemporary Chicana poets---Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice Zamora---are the focus of this volume.

Author : Christina Soto van der Plas,Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440875922

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Latino Literature by Christina Soto van der Plas,Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham Pdf

Offers a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, movements, genres, and historical turning points in Latino literature. More than 60 million Latinos currently live in the United States. Yet contributions from writers who trace their heritage to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico have and continue to be overlooked by critics and general audiences alike. Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students gathers the best from these authors and presents them to readers in an informed and accessible way. Intended to be a useful resource for students, this volume introduces the key figures and genres central to Latino literature. Entries are written by prominent and emerging scholars and are comprehensive in their coverage of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Different critical approaches inform and interpret the myriad complexities of Latino literary production over the last several hundred years. Finally, detailed historical and cultural accounts of Latino diasporas also enrich readers' understandings of the writings that have and continue to be influenced by changes in cultural geography, providing readers with the information they need to appreciate a body of work that will continue to flourish in and alongside Latino communities.

Author : Alice Bag
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936239139

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Violence Girl by Alice Bag Pdf

The birth of the 1970's punk movement as seen through the eyes of Chicana feminist and punk musician Alice Bag.