To Live And Die In El Valle

Author : Oscar Mancinas
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781518506055

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To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas Pdf

Many of the young people in this haunting collection of thirteen stories grounded in Arizona don’t have the luxury of being dreamless. Some are compelled to leave their hometown: “I knew early on that I didn’t want to die in El Valle. Nothing could be worse than being stuck somewhere you didn’t belong.” Those that manage to get out often find themselves in awkward situations. One young man, a student at a New England college, is surprised to receive a call from the admissions office, asking him to give a tour to a Mexican family. He agrees to help, but the interaction only reinforces the unease he feels about his place on campus and his Mexican identity. Not all want to leave. Kino vigorously resists his friend’s constant encouragement to apply to schools out of state. “You think you won’t be a wetback to people out there? You think I wanna be your lil’ Indian sidekick on the East Coast? You think you’re better than all of us here?” Others live with the daily fear of deportation or the loss of family members. Fernanda adjusts to a new life as an undocumented person in El Valle, where she takes comfort in the familiar ritual of baseball. Roach’s mother has steadfastly refused to talk about her father, until through drastic measures she learns he was deported before her birth. And on their long drive to college, Melissa’s father finally talks about the death of her would-be older brother. Vividly depicting working-class communities, Oscar Mancinas creates lives shaped by circumstances beyond their control, from migration for a better life to centuries of systemic racism and settler-colonialism. His characters frequently struggle with a sense of belonging, and their stories eloquently illuminate Hispanic and indigenous experiences in the Southwest.

Author : Oscar Mancinas
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1518506070

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To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas Pdf

This haunting collection of eleven stories grounded in Arizona reveals the varied lives of Mexican and Mexican-American protagonists.

Author : Richard Z. Santos
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781518507519

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A Night of Screams by Richard Z. Santos Pdf

The movement of the old woman’s hands is quick and youthful as she works the dough for tamales on Mars’ dusty, dry surface where their cohete broke apart and crash landed. She, her husband and their only son survive, and the old man curses the coyotes who took his money for a rocket not built to accommodate his family of eleven. A storm is coming, and he rails at his wife that she’s wasting her time. “We’ll be dead by the time you finish your goddamn tamales.” This riveting collection of horror stories—and four poems—contains a wide range of styles, themes and authors. Creepy creatures roam the pages, including La Llorona and the Chupacabras in fresh takes on Latin American lore, as well as ghosts, zombies and shadow selves. Migrants continue to pass through Rancho Altamira where Esteban’s family has lived for generations, but now there are two types: the living and the dead. A young man returns repeatedly to the scary portal down which his buddy disappeared. A woman is relieved to receive multiple calls from her cousin following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, but she is stunned to later learn her prima died the first night of the storm! There’s plenty of blood and gore in some stories, while others are mysterious and suspenseful. Contributors include Ann Davila Cardinal, V. Castro, Ruben Degollado, Richie Narvaez, Lilliam Rivera and Ivelisse Rodriguez. In his introduction, editor Richard Z. Santos writes it is no surprise these stories are brilliant and terrifying, given cartel violence, a history of CIA-backed dictatorships in Latin America, increasingly scary rhetoric from American politicians, decades of institutionalized racism and the demonization of Latinos in the media. “After all,” he says, “we are the faceless horde, invading zombies hellbent on upturning the world and replacing it with something foreign, accented and impossibly different.”

Author : Simon Jimenez
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593156605

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The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez Pdf

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds. “A beguiling fantasy not to be missed.”—Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of The Crown’s Game WINNER OF THE IAFA CRAWFORD AWARD • WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE IGNYTE AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, Vulture, Polygon, She Reads, Gizmodo, Kirkus Reviews, The Quill to Live The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace. But that god cannot be contained forever. With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined. Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

Author : Jaime Ibarra Montero
Publisher : Palibrio
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463300296

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The Valley of the Seven Forests the Purpose of Life "El Valle De Los Siete Bosques" by Jaime Ibarra Montero Pdf

The Valley of the Seven Forest is a heart-warming story about a little squirrel's journey to find the purpose of life. It is a moving tale that would remind us of how sometimes, we do not even realize some of the things we look so hard for in life... is something that we already have.

Author : Ann Frost
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Galicia (Spain : Region)
ISBN : 3034302428

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The Galician Works of Ramón Del Valle-Inclán by Ann Frost Pdf

Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was undoubtedly the most controversial literary figure of his generation. Whilst his genius was recognised by fellow writers, the reading public was slow to accept his work, and his theatre taxed directors and audiences alike. One of the harshest criticisms levelled against him concerned his use of repetition. This study shows how the reuse, recycling and development of material becomes one of the hallmarks of Valle-Inclán's writing during the first three decades of his literary career, linking one genre with another and blurring the borders between different aesthetics. The repetition of themes and motifs, characters and stylistic devices reveals an underlying interdependence among works that on the surface appear unconnected or even contradictory. Many of Valle-Inclán's works have been studied in isolation, rather than as pieces of a whole. This book examines the elements that provide significant links in his writing between 1889 and 1922, most of which shares the common backdrop of Galicia, and demonstrates that apparently unrelated works are part of a larger picture. Despite changes in perspective and genre, there are constants that relate individual works to those that precede and follow, creating a unifying pattern of continuity.

Author : Harold Augenbraum,Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0395661242

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Growing Up Latino by Harold Augenbraum,Ilan Stavans Pdf

A comprehensive collection of Latino writing of fiction and nonfiction works in English.

Author : Patricia C. Márquez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804745528

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The Street Is My Home by Patricia C. Márquez Pdf

The presence of youngsters on the streets of Caracas embodies social contradictions at the national level, and this book discusses how these contradictions are played out in an oil-producing nation afflicted with hyperinflation generalized corruption, the deterioration of public services, increasing poverty, and violence. Vivid life stories told by street children themselves portray their relations with family and friends, as well as with people they encounter: police officers, journalists, social workers, and passersby at their local hangouts. The book also describes and analyzes the justice system and institutions for minors, illustrating the constant failures to respond to, contain, or lessen youth violence.

Author : Herbert I. E. Dhlomo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Zululand (South Africa)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172130056019

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El valle de las mil colinas by Herbert I. E. Dhlomo Pdf

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063628051

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Peter Althouse,Robby Waddell
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227900321

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Perspectives in Pentecostal Eschatologies by Peter Althouse,Robby Waddell Pdf

This collection of essays from established scholars and rising stars offers fresh perspectives in eschatology for the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. The fresh readings of eschatology in this volume are valuable because they demonstrate that Pentecostals no longer need to look to others to interpret their theology for them but can stand as scholars and thinkers in their own right.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004527928

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Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries by Anonim Pdf

This book comprises a rich range of empirical investigations from the Global south highlighting dynamic relationships between local struggles, and global political and economic power, and which are explained with ideas developed by the pioneering anthropologist Eric R. Wolf.

Author : Seymour Menton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292763821

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Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution by Seymour Menton Pdf

Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution. Menton establishes four periods—1959–1960, 1961–1965,1966–1970, and 1971– 1973—that reflect the changing policies of the revolutionary government toward the arts. Using these periods as a chronological guideline, he defines four distinct literary generations, records the facts about their works, establishes coordinates, and formulates a system of literary and historical classification. He then makes an aesthetic analysis of the best of Cuban fiction, emphasizing the novels of major writers, including Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces, and José Lezama Lima's Paradiso. He also discusses the works of a large number of lesser-known writers, which must be considered in arriving at an accurate historical tableau. Menton's exploration of the short story combines a thematic and stylistic analysis of nineteen anthologies with a close study of six authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Calvert Casey, Humberto Arenal, Antonio Benítez, Jesús Díaz Rodríguez, and Norberto Fuentes. Several chapters are devoted to the increasing number of novels and short stories written by Cuban exiles as well as to the eighteen novels and one short story written about the Revolution by non-Cubans, such as Julio Cortázar, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Luisa Josefina Hernández, and Pedro Juan Soto. In studying literary works to reveal the intrinsic consciousness of a historical period, Menton presents not only his own views but also those of Cuban literary critics. In addition, he clarifies the various changes in the official attitude toward literature and the arts in Cuba, using the revolutionary processes of several other countries as comparative examples.

Author : Lily Litvak
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1975-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292741300

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A Dream of Arcadia by Lily Litvak Pdf

The dream of “progress” that animated many nineteenth-century artistic and political movements gave way at the turn of the century to a dissatisfaction with the Industrial Civilization and a recurrent pessimism about a future dominated by mechanization. Art Nouveau, which was both a style and a movement, embodied this dissatisfaction, marking the turn-of-the-century period with an aesthetic that consciously set out to revolutionize literature, the arts, and society within the framework of a brutalizing, wildly burgeoning Industrial Civilization. Generally associated with northern European culture, Art Nouveau also had a great impact in the south, particularly in Spain. A Dream of Arcadia is the first work to explore Spain’s fertile and imaginative Art Nouveau. Through the eyes of four major Spanish writers, Lily Litvak views several different aspects of the turn-of-the-century struggle against the advances of industrialism in Spain. Her interpretation of the early works of Ramón del Valle Inclán, Miguel de Unamuno, José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), and Pío Baroja exposes a longing for a preindustrial arcadia based on a return to nature, the revival of handicrafts and medieval art, an attraction to rural primitive societies, and a revulsion against the modern city. Set against the European literary and artistic background of the period, her observations place the Spanish manifestations of Art Nouveau within the context of the better-known northern phenomena. Of particular interest is her discussion of the influences of John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites, which demonstrates how the general European mood was articulated in Spain. Litvak concludes that Valle Inclán, Unamuno, Azorín, and Baroja must be considered as more than simply fin de siècle writers, for they became part of a general movement, generated by Art Nouveau, that spans an entire century. A Dream of Arcadia demonstrates that Art Nouveau was more than a flash on Europe's artistic horizon; it is a philosophy with ramifications that have led to communes, handcrafted articles, and nomadic adolescents in search of truth.

Author : Thomas Cottam Romney
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874808384

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The Mormon Colonies in Mexico by Thomas Cottam Romney Pdf

Originally published in 1938, this important document chronicles a little-known chapter in Mormon history: the polygamous members in the 1880s who sought refuge from the U.S. federal marshals in Mexico.