A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon"

A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published:

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1410359441

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A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.


Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer

Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer

Author: Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780826342720

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The work of one of the earliest Mexican American women writers who focused on life lived between two cultures and nations is the subject of this new literary study.


Mexican Village

Mexican Village

Author: Josephina Niggli

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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Introduction by Maria Herrera-Sobek Crammed with delightful folk tales and legends, this is a novel about the people in one post-Revolutionary northern Mexico village.


Igneous Rocks and Processes

Igneous Rocks and Processes

Author: Robin Gill

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-02-15

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1444330659

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This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, to help develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying igneous minerals, interpreting and allocating appropriate names to unknown rocks presented to them. The book thus serves, uniquely, both as a conventional course text and as a practical laboratory manual. Following an introduction reviewing igneous nomenclature, each chapter addresses a specific compositional category of magmatic rocks, covering definition, mineralogy, eruption/ emplacement processes, textures and crystallization processes, geotectonic distribution, geochemistry, and aspects of magma genesis. One chapter is devoted to phase equilibrium experiments and magma evolution; another introduces pyroclastic volcanology. Each chapter concludes with exercises, with the answers being provided at the end of the book. Appendices provide a summary of techniques and optical data for microscope mineral identification, an introduction to petrographic calculations, a glossary of petrological terms, and a list of symbols and units. The book is richly illustrated with line drawings, monochrome pictures and colour plates. Additional resources for this book can be found at: http://www.wiley.com/go/gill/igneous.


The Tortilla Curtain

The Tortilla Curtain

Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0143119079

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The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.


Mexicanos

Mexicanos

Author: Manuel G. Gonzales

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-08-20

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0253221250

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Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States—a growing minority who are a vital presence in 21st-century America.


Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1989-07-17

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0679722130

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Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.


México Profundo

México Profundo

Author: Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0292791852

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This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural world. Health is related to human conduct, and community service is often part of each individual's life obligation. Time is circular, and humans fulfill their own cycle in relation to other cycles of the universe. Since the Conquest, Bonfil argues, the peoples of the México profundo have been dominated by an "imaginary México" imposed by the West. It is imaginary not because it does not exist, but because it denies the cultural reality lived daily by most Mexicans. Within the México profundo there exists an enormous body of accumulated knowledge, as well as successful patterns for living together and adapting to the natural world. To face the future successfully, argues Bonfil, Mexico must build on these strengths of Mesoamerican civilization, "one of the few original civilizations that humanity has created throughout all its history."


Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage

Author: Virginia Sánchez Korrol

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1558852514

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Presents essays dealing with literature written by Hispanic Americans from the sixteenth century through 1960, evaluates individual authors, and examines the contributions of Latino authors in a multicultural, multilingual society.