Fray Angélico Chávez

Author : Ellen McCracken
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826320087

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Fray Angélico Chávez by Ellen McCracken Pdf

New Mexico's first Franciscan priest, Fray Angélico Cheavez (1910-1996) is known as a prolific historian, a literary and artistic figure, and an intellectual who played a vital role in Santa Fe's community of writers. The original essays collected here explore his wide-ranging cultural production: fiction, poetry, architectural restoration, journalism, genealogy, translation, and painting and drawing. Several essays discuss his approach to history, his archival research, and the way in which he re-centers ethnic identity in the prevalent Anglo-American master historical narrative. Others examine how he used fiction to bring history alive and combined visual and verbal elements to enhance his narratives. Two essays explore Chávez's profession as a friar. The collection ends with recollections by Thomas E. Chávez, historian and Fray Angélico's nephew. Readers familiar with Chávez's work as well as those learning about it for the first time will find much that surprises and informs in these essays.

Author : Angelico Chavez
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 082630950X

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The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez by Angelico Chavez Pdf

This anthology is the first collection of fiction published since 1957 by one of New Mexico's leading men of letters.

Author : Angelico Chavez,Fray Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : 9780865348714

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My Penitente Land by Angelico Chavez,Fray Angelico Chavez Pdf

The author's personal meditation on his cultural heritage is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. In evoking this special closeness between the divine and the human, he returns repeatedly to the Penitentes of New MexicoNthe societies of men who scourge themselves and replay the Crucifixion each Holy Week to share the sufferings of their Savior.

Author : Angelico Chavez (O.F.M.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1025920591

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The Short Stories of Fray Angélico Chávez by Angelico Chavez (O.F.M.) Pdf

Author : Fray Angélico Chávez
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780890135365

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Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angélico Chávez Pdf

This book is considered to be the starting place for anyone having family history ties to New Mexico, and for those interested in the history of New Mexico. Well before Jamestown and the Pilgrims, New Mexico was settled continuously beginning in 1598 by Spaniards whose descendants still make up a major portion of the population of New Mexico.

Author : Ellen McCracken
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826328496

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Fray Angélico Chávez by Ellen McCracken Pdf

New Mexico's first Franciscan priest, Fray Angélico Cheavez (1910-1996) is known as a prolific historian, a literary and artistic figure, and an intellectual who played a vital role in Santa Fe's community of writers. The original essays collected here explore his wide-ranging cultural production: fiction, poetry, architectural restoration, journalism, genealogy, translation, and painting and drawing. Several essays discuss his approach to history, his archival research, and the way in which he re-centers ethnic identity in the prevalent Anglo-American master historical narrative. Others examine how he used fiction to bring history alive and combined visual and verbal elements to enhance his narratives. Two essays explore Chávez's profession as a friar. The collection ends with recollections by Thomas E. Chávez, historian and Fray Angélico's nephew. Readers familiar with Chávez's work as well as those learning about it for the first time will find much that surprises and informs in these essays. Part of the Pasó por Aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage

Author : Ellen Marie McCracken
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mexican American authors
ISBN : 9780826347602

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The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez by Ellen Marie McCracken Pdf

The year 2010 will mark the centenary of writer, historian, and preservationist Fray Angélico Chávez's birth, and this volume will serve as a fitting tribute.

Author : Francisco Atanasio Domínguez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Franciscans
ISBN : 9780865348691

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The Missions of New Mexico, 1776 by Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Pdf

Adams and Chavez polish a unique window on late 18th-century New Mexico, providing a seamless translation of Father Domnguez's original work as well as explanatory materials.

Author : Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : 9780865346536

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Chávez by Angelico Chavez Pdf

Following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Chvez performed the difficult duties of an isolated back-country pastor, an army chaplain in World War II, and became an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist. Upon all of his endeavors, one finds the imprint of his religious perspective.

Author : Fray Angelico Chavez,Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Conquistadora
ISBN : 9780865347472

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Our Lady of the Conquest by Fray Angelico Chavez,Angelico Chavez Pdf

Chvez details the origins and development of America's oldest devotion to the Virgin Mary--Our Lady of the Conquest in Santa Fe--in a scholarly yet devout manner.

Author : Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Conquistadora
ISBN : 0913270431

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La Conquistadora by Angelico Chavez Pdf

Written as an autobiography, the author lets this famous willow wood statue speak for herself, tell her own story from the time she was brought to New Mexico in 1625 by Fray Benavides until the present. Many photographs bring this remarkable history to life. Fray Ang lico researched, translated and annotated facts about the statue's history, its religious society, its fiestas and chapels, correcting the mistakes and folklore held as truth for more than two centuries. Fray Ang lico Ch vez has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way you measure his career, Fray Ang lico Ch vez was an unexpected phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest. In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Ch vez performed the difficult duties of an isolated backcountry pastor. His assignments included Hispanic villages and Indian pueblos. As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards that because of his small stature, Japanese bullets always missed him. In time, despite heavy clerical duties, Fray Ang lico managed to become an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist. Upon all of his endeavors, one finds, understandably, the imprint of his religious perspective. During nearly seventy years of writing, he published almost two dozen books. Among them were novels, essays, poetry, biographies, and histories. Sunstone Press has brought back into print some of these rare titles.

Author : Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 9780913270950

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But Time and Chance by Angelico Chavez Pdf

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance happenethto them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 With these words, the epitaph Padre Martinez chose for himself, the reader is drawn into a stirring and provocative biography recounted by a master storyteller. Fray Angelico Chavez, articulate and well-versed in New Mexicana, vividly records the life of the controversial Padre of Taos so that the reader gains full measure of his surroundings and of the times. Martinez was continually at the forefront of the public and political forums . . . a master of jurisprudence and canon law . . . a champion of the underdog. With the advent of Bishop Lamy, public attention became focused on these two dynamic personalities. Their philosophic differences ultimately led to Martinez' suspension and excommunication. Chavez was a curious and indefatigable researcher and he used these talents well while delving into the facts and legends surrounding Padre Martinez most poignant and colorful life-drama . . . a personality to be reckoned with, whether as hero or villain, or both. Readers will, at once, share with Chavez his absorption in this man and, also wonder . . . how such a phenomenon could have sprouted and bloomed under the most adverse circumstances of time and place.

Author : Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874804485

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The Domínguez-Escalante Journal by Silvestre Vélez de Escalante Pdf

The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown....

Author : Ellen McCracken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Mexican American authors
ISBN : 0826347614

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The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez by Ellen McCracken Pdf

From the prolific creativity of the years of his first assignment in Peña Blanca to the decades he spent researching Hispano genealogy in New Mexico, the author traces Chávez's complex and changing identity as an ethnic American and religious subject who was also an historian, artist, creative writer, and preservationist.

Author : Fray Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258419378

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The Lady from Toledo by Fray Angelico Chavez Pdf