The Cruel Country

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820347639

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The Cruel Country by Judith Ortiz Cofer Pdf

"The Cruel Country is a memoir centered around the author's journey to Puerto Rico after her mother had been diagnosed with late stage lung cancer. The story takes us through Cofer's journey as she sits by the her mother's hospital bed during the last moments of her life, through the grieving process and Catholic funereal rites that follow her mother's death and her return to her life in the U.S. Cofer's writerly talents richly inform this narrative meditation on her family's life in Puerto Rico and the States, her frantic research on cancer, considerations of Catholicism, family, and culture , and much more. The book at the same time is very much a study of cultural differences and the balance that the author must find as a Puerto-Rican American, not wholly part of her mother's culture. We see this come to a head as she communicates with doctors, participates in funeral arrangements and sacraments, and recollects her Anglo husband John's father's death. This very personal story about the author's life will resonate with Cofer's legions of fans including students and those interested in memoir, ethnic and cultural crossings, spirituality, loss, grief, and reconciliation"--

Author : Gerald Cumberland
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368902612

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Tales of a Cruel Country by Gerald Cumberland Pdf

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820347646

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The Cruel Country by Judith Ortiz Cofer Pdf

“I am learning the alchemy of grief—how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted—but I have not yet mastered this art,” writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, and lyrical memoir centers on Cofer's return to her native Puerto Rico after her mother has been diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Cofer's work has always drawn strength from her life's contradictions and dualities, such as the necessities and demands of both English and Spanish, her travels between and within various mainland and island subcultures, and the challenges of being a Latina living in the U.S. South. Interlaced with these far-from-common tensions are dualities we all share: our lives as both sacred and profane, our negotiation of both child and adult roles, our desires to be the person who belongs and also the person who is different. What we discover in The Cruel Country is how much Cofer has heretofore held back in her vivid and compelling writing. This journey to her mother's deathbed has released her to tell the truth within the truth. She arrives at her mother's bedside as a daughter overcome by grief, but she navigates this cruel country as a writer—an acute observer of detail, a relentless and insistent questioner.

Author : Charles F. Kenyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:634665503

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Tales of a cruel country by Charles F. Kenyon Pdf

Author : Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816534357

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A Beautiful, Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce Pdf

Arizona's Arivaca Valley lies only a short distance from the Mexican border and is a rugged land in which to put down stakes. When Arizona Territory was America's last frontier, this area was homesteaded by Anglo and Mexican settlers alike, who often displaced the Indian population that had lived there for centuries. This frontier way of life, which prevailed as recently as the beginning of the twentieth century, is now recollected in vivid detail by an octogenarian who spent her girlhood in this beautiful, cruel country. Eva Antonia Wilbur inherited a unique affinity for the land. Granddaughter of a Harvard-educated physician who came to the Territory in the 1860s, she was the firstborn child of a Mexican mother and Anglo father who instilled in her an appreciation for both cultures. Little Toña learned firsthand the responsibilities of ranching—an education usually reserved for boys—and also experienced the racial hostility that occurred during those final years before the Tohono O'odham were confined to a reservation. Begun as a reminiscence to tell younger family members about their "rawhide tough and lonely" life at the turn of the century, Mrs. Wilbur-Cruce's book is rich with imagery and dialogue that brings the Arivaca area to life. Her story is built around the annual cycle of ranch life—its spring and fall round-ups, planting and harvesting—and features a cavalcade of border characters, anecdotes about folk medicine, and recollections of events that were most meaningful in a young girl's life. Her account constitutes a valuable primary source from a region about which nothing similar has been previously published, while the richness of her story creates a work of literature that will appeal to readers of all ages.

Author : Gerald Cumberland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0265196574

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Tales of a Cruel Country (Classic Reprint) by Gerald Cumberland Pdf

Excerpt from Tales of a Cruel Country How white it is! She said to herself; and then something in her brain whispered: How white they will be. How white they will be to night, in so few hours! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Gerald Cumberland
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664185952

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Tales of a Cruel Country by Gerald Cumberland Pdf

Here is a collection of 22 short stories, set in the main in central and Eastern Europe. They are tales of suicide, depression and madness. The first story is set in Greece and features a young girl, who dreams of Orsidi her lover, while remembering that today is the anniversary of the death of her previous lover, when tradition demands she must visit his grave and caress the white bones in his shallow grave.

Author : Marion Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Australia
ISBN : OCLC:1310586104

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Cruel Country by Marion Lennox Pdf

Author : Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0816511942

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A Beautiful, Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce Pdf

The author recounts her life on a ranch in southern Arizona and describes the seasons of ranch life, folk medicine, and the region's ethnic roots.

Author : Gerald Cumberland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1696385393

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Tales of a Cruel Country by Gerald Cumberland Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

Author : Patricia Engel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982159481

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Infinite Country by Patricia Engel Pdf

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION “A profound, beautiful novel.” —People * “Poignant.” —BuzzFeed * “A breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life.” —Esquire This “heartbreaking portrait of a family dealing with the realities of migration and separation” (Time) is “a sweeping love story and tragic drama [and] an authentic vision of what the American Dream looks like in a nationalistic country” (Elle). I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia’s parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro’s deportation and the family’s splintering—the costs they’ve all been living with ever since. Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself a dual citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, gives voice to all five family members as they navigate the particulars of their respective circumstances. Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, Infinite Country “is as much an all-American story as it is a global one” (Booklist, starred review).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : OSU:32435051632602

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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Anthony Froude,John Tulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119102551

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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by James Anthony Froude,John Tulloch Pdf

Author : James Carlos Blake
Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781843445562

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Country of the Bad Wolfes by James Carlos Blake Pdf

A page-turning epic about the making of a borderland crime family, Country of the Bad Wolfes will appeal both to aficionados of family sagas and to fans of hard-knuckled crime novels by the likes of Donald Pollack, Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and James Ellroy. Basing the novel partly on his own ancestors, Blake presents the story of the Wolfe family - spanning three generations, centring on two sets of identical twins and the women they love, and ranging from New England to the heart of Mexico before arriving at its powerful climax at the Rio Grande. Begat by an Irish-English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828, the Wolfe family follows its manifest destiny into war-torn Mexico. There, through the connection of a mysterious American named Edward Little, their fortunes intertwine with those of Porfirio Díaz, who will rule the country for more than thirty years before his overthrow by the Revolution of 1910. In the course of those tumultuous chapters in American and Mexican history, as Díaz grows in power, the Wolfes grow rich and forge a violent history of their own, spawning a fearsome legacy that will pursue them to a climactic reckoning at the Río Grande.

Author : Uriah Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015008453337

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Our Country's Future by Uriah Smith Pdf