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Author : Tomás Rivera
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : 060637440X
For use in schools and libraries only. Examines in English and Spanish the lives of migrant workers moving from south Texas up through the Plains, and the experiences of all ages and sexes
Author : Tomàs Rivera
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611923395
ñI tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? YouÍre so good and yet you suffer so much,î a young boy tells his mother in Tomàs RiveraÍs classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy canÍt understand his parentsÍ faith in a god that would impose such horrible suffering, poverty and injustice on innocent people. Adapted into the award-winning film and the earth did not swallow him and recipient of the first award for Chicano literature, the Premio Quinto Sol, in 1970, RiveraÍs masterpiece recounts the experiences of a Mexican-American community through the eyes of a young boy. Forced to leave their home in search of work, the migrants are exploited by farmers, shopkeepers, even other Mexican Americans, and the boy must forge his identity in the face of exploitation, death and disease, constant moving and conflicts with school officials. In this new edition of a powerful novel comprised of short vignettes, Rivera writes hauntingly about alienation, love and betrayal, man and nature, death and resurrection and the search for community.
Author : Tomás Rivera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1285462563
This novel, originally written in Spanish, explores the lives of young Mexican American migrant workers as they struggle to find hope for a brighter future.
Author : Tomàs Rivera
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611923131
Tomàs Rivera quite possibly has been the most influential voice in Chicano literature. Besides his masterpiece, y no se lo tragÑ la tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, included here is the sum total of his published works, in English and Spanish, as well as many that never made print in his lifetime.
Author : Tomás Rivera,Rolando Hinojosa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020367475
This Migrant Earth is Rolando Hinojosa's re-casting into English of the novel that is the basis of the modern Chicano literary movement: Tomas Rivera's ... y no se lo trago la tierra. Rivera's memorable book was awarded the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has since become the standard text in U.S. Hispanic literature courses throughout the country. Three years after Rivera's death, his friend and fellow novelist Rolando Hinojosa captured the spirit and poetry of Rivera's original for an English-language audience.
Author : Arturo Islas
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062037794
"The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." — Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter "Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God." A beloved Southwestern classic—as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself—Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves, lusts and dangerous desires. From gentle hearts plagued by violence and epic delusions to a child who con foretell the coming of rain in the sweet scent of angels, here is a rich and poignant tale of outcasts struggling to live and die with dignity . . . and to hold onto their past while embracing an unsteady future.
Author : Tomàs Rivera
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 161192278X
Tomàs RiveraÍs The Searchers: Collected Poetry, edited by Juliàn Olivares, contains the twenty-six poems the late author published and an equal number which the editor discovered among the authorÍs literary papers. In The Searchers, in taut but impassioned lyrics, Tomàs Rivera celebrates the common experience of humanity and renews his search for the encounter of the self, community, the past and the continuity of the dead through the living. Tomàs Rivera is the author of the now classic Chicano novel y no se lo tragÑ la tierra/ and the earth did not devour him and the short story collection The Harvest.
Author : Fred Arroyo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816502332
A collection of short stories by Fred Arroyo.
Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811223515
A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as "a spectacular journey through a world of colliding languages and multiplying cities." In these stories' disparate settings—Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany—the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author, or the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a traveler on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection. Through the timeless art of storytelling, Yoko Tawada discloses the virtues of bewilderment, estrangement, and Hilaritas: the goddess of rejoicing.
Author : Helena Maria Viramontes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101078235
Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature “Stunning.”—Newsweek With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.
Author : Norma E. Cantú
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826318282
In this fictionalized memoir of Laredo, Texas, canícula represents a time between childhood and a yet unknown adulthood.
Author : Américo Paredes
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611921546
In the 1930s, Américo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. Episodes of guerilla warfare, land grabs, racism, jingoism, and abuses by the Texas Rangers make this an adventure novel as well as one of reflection on the making of modern day Texas. George Washington GÑmez is a true precursor of the modern Chicano novel.
Author : Tey Diana Rebolledo,Eliana Su‡rez Rivero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816513848
Offers examples of oral narratives and literature from the nineteenth century to the present
Author : Carla Trujillo
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810133006
What Night Brings focuses on a Chicano working-class family living in California during the 1960s. Marci-smart, feisty and funny-tells the story with the wisdom of someone twice her age as she determines to defy her family and God in order to find her identity, sexuality and freedom. "Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings puts one more wonderful Latina novelist on the must-read list right up there beside Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez and Cristina Garcia. This moving story, told in the completely convincing voice of its young protagonist, explores living with domestic abuse and longing for the maternal protection that always fails to materialize. We touch the mysteries of religion in a child's life, and are completely captivated by a young girl's budding lesbian identity. Character and situation building are exemplary, yet we are hit hard when the book takes its final turn. What Night Brings is a page-turner that lingers long after the last page has been turned."-Margaret Randall "A story that is at once heartbreaking and hilarious, beautifully told by a wise and wise-cracking young girl."-Sandra Cisneros
Author : Achy Obejas
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573446990
Achy Obejas writes stories about uprooted people. Some, like herself, are Latino immigrants and lesbians; others are men (gay and straight), people with AIDS, addicts, people living marginally, just surviving. As omniscient narrator to her characters' lives, Obejas generously delves into her own memories of exile and alienation to tell stories about women and men who struggle for wholeness and love.