Muerte En Una Estrella Shooting Star

Author : Sergio D. Elizondo
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558857865

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Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star by Sergio D. Elizondo Pdf

In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Óscar Balboa and Valentín Rodríguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two “strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad” are the novel’s principal voices as they lie dying. In other chapters, óscar remembers traveling north with his parents as a young boy to pick crops and joining farm workers’ protest marches. Songs of all types—symphonic, orchestral and protest—infuse the narrative: “We’ll summon the spirit of a poet so that he can adapt our people’s story through time and set it to music.” Elizondo’s short and tragic novel bears witness to la raza’s struggles for rights, whether in the fields, the work place or on college campuses. Originally published in Spanish and now available for the first time in English, this classic of Mexican-American literature provides insight into the Chicano civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star is a profoundly disturbing and moving denunciation of bigotry and discrimination.

Author : Marcial Gonzalez,Carlos Gallego
Publisher : Class: Culture
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053957

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Dialectical Imaginaries by Marcial Gonzalez,Carlos Gallego Pdf

"Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that center on identity politics and an ethics of multiculturalism. The volume seeks to demonstrate that materialist methodologies have a greater critical reach than other methods, and that Latino/a literary criticism should be more attuned to interpretive approaches that draw on Marxism and other globalizing social theories. The contributors analyze a wide range of literary works in fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir by writers including Rudolfo Anaya, Gloria Anzaldúa, Daniel Borzutzky, Angie Cruz, Sergio de la Pava, Mónica de la Torre, Sergio Elizondo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rolando Hinojosa, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Óscar Martínez, Cherríe Moraga, Urayoán Noel, Emma Pérez, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, Ernesto Quiñónez, Ronald Ruiz, Hector Tobar, Rodrigo Toscano, Alfredo Véa, Helena María Viramontes, and others" --

Author : Rosaura Sánchez,Beatrice Pita
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021292

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Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest by Rosaura Sánchez,Beatrice Pita Pdf

In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the history of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Sánchez and Pita analyze a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories, and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, showing how Chicano/a works often celebrate an idealized colonial Spanish past as a way to counter stereotypes of Mexican and Indigenous racial and ethnic inferiority. As they demonstrate, these texts often erase the participation of Spanish and Mexican settlers in the dispossession of Indigenous lands. Foregrounding the relationship between literature and settler colonialism, they consider how literary representations of land are manipulated and redefined in ways that point to the changing practices of dispossession. In so doing, Sánchez and Pita prompt critics to reconsider the role of settler colonialism in the deep history of the United States and how spatial and discursive violence are always correlated.

Author : Paty Castaldi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533397449

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Shooting Star by Paty Castaldi Pdf

¿Alguna vez has cerrado los ojos y has querido volar?Park Hye In es esa chica que vive dentro de su cabeza creándose mundos e historias propias. La chica que quiere volar y que sueña con viajar a Júpiter o sentarse en la luna. Ella es el amor de mi vida, la que me tiene loco y que por ella estoy dispuesto a hacer lo que sea y ten por seguro que lo haré. No importa que ella vaya huyendo de país en país, ni que me oculte enormes secretos, yo sé que nuestro destino es estar juntos.Ella es mi estrella fugaz que cuando brilla yo le pido deseos, mi chica de las estrellas, tan inalcanzable y tan soñadora. La que cumplió su deseo de volar y yo le di ese regalo.¿Quieres conocer mi historia y la de ella?

Author : Beatriz Galimberti Jarman,Roy Russell,Carol Styles Carvajal,Jane Horwood
Publisher : Oxford University
Page : 2356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198604750

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Gran Diccionario Oxford by Beatriz Galimberti Jarman,Roy Russell,Carol Styles Carvajal,Jane Horwood Pdf

The Oxford Spanish Dictionary comes with the ultimate pronunciation guide: a FREE, state-of-the-art CD-ROM (UK and Europe only) that enables you to type in a word or phrase, or paste in text from the web, and hear it spoken back to you in perfect Spanish.Now in colour, with an ultra-clear layout for maximum accessibility, this major new edition provides the richest coverage of Spanish from around the world, covering over 300,000 words and phrases, and more than 500,000 translations. Oxford's expert teams of lexicographers have used the latest technology to search millions of words of web-based text and identify all the most recent additions to both Spanish and English. Over 20,000 new entries have been added to the dictionary from all aspects of life today - business, IT,science, the media, the environment, the internet, and social life. Hundreds of special entries now give information on life and culture in the Spanish-speaking world, and in-text notes give extra help with grammar and usage. The dictionary also includes an extended guide to effectivecommunication, including a wealth of example letters, offering help with a wide range of topics, from writing a job application or a CV to booking a hotel room. With a new, easy-access colour design to make consultation even quicker, this is the most complete and up-to-date reference tool foranyone studying Spanish in senior school or at university, or for translators and other language professionals. This title replaces ISBN 0-19-860367-3. It is also available on CD-ROM with full text search and innovative Spanish pronunciation functionality.

Author : Nicolás Kanellos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313087004

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature [3 volumes] by Nicolás Kanellos Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018276200

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El México antiguo by Anonim Pdf

Includes section "Bibliografia".

Author : NTC Publishing Group Staff,Ntc Publishing Group,Natl Textbook,Vox Staff,Vox
Publisher : Contemporary Books
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015046874445

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Vox English and Spanish Learner's Dictionary by NTC Publishing Group Staff,Ntc Publishing Group,Natl Textbook,Vox Staff,Vox Pdf

This essential bilingual reference for learners of Spanish or English is current, complete, authoritative, and easy to use. It contains nearly 100,000 terms and expressions, including basic vocabulary, selected place names, proper names, abbreviations, acronyms, and the most current technical terms. Words are clearly illustrated in context, and to further assist learners of both Spanish and English, grammar summaries of each language are given.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1684 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : English language
ISBN : SRLF:A0000883637

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A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:$B778613

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A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages: Inglés-Español by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bryan Ryan
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015003016285

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Hispanic Writers by Bryan Ryan Pdf

Contains more than four hundred entries on twentieth-century Hispanic writers, all originally written or updated for this volume.

Author : Jim Crace
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429980159

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Being Dead by Jim Crace Pdf

A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of Quarantine Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes. "Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet."

Author : Jojo Moyes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698152045

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After You by Jojo Moyes Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. “You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.” How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . . For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030025344898

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National Union Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466804821

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2666 by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.