Trini

Trini

Author: Estella Portillo Trambley

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1936932091

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The sole novel of beloved Chicana author Estela Portillo Trambley, Trini is the epic story of one girl's journey across borders and into womanhood. Born in the rural region of the Tarahumara (Raramuri) people in Mexico, Trini shares her family's struggle to squeeze a living out of her beautiful but inhospitable land. But she is sustained by the rich traditions of her Mestiza heritage, the adopted traditions of the Tarahumara, and by her own intelligence and spirit. As a young woman, she crosses into the United States to pursue her dreams of independence and land ownership. Trini is a novel distinguished by the richness and beauty of its language and by its rare depiction of life in the Borderlands in the 1940s and 1950s. Most remarkable of all is its portrait of a sensitive and courageous young Chicana woman, whose quiet heroism resonates from every page. Here restored to print with a new foreword, this early novel of the Mexican American experience is bound to take its rightful place among contemporary classics of multicultural American literature.


Trini

Trini

Author: Estela Portillo Trambley

Publisher: Feminist Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9781558615021

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An epic tale of a Mexican-American girl's journey into womanhood and independence on both sides of the border. The sole novel of beloved Chicana author Estela Portillo Trambley is an important rediscovery. This classic Mexican-American coming-of-age story was written in the 1980s during the rich burgeoning of Latino literature that also brought us such writers as Sandra Cisneros and Denise Chavez. The novel is the captivating story of Trini, a girl born in the rural Tarahumaran region of Mexico, who loses her mother at an early age and shares her family's struggle to squeeze a living out of her beautiful but inhospitable land. Trini is a vital novel of the Mexican-American experience, appropriate for young adults as well as adult readers.


Trini Talk

Trini Talk

Author: Rhona Baptiste

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781461148159

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Trini Talk - A Dictionary of Words and Proverbs of Trinidad & Tobago. This is the second edition of an indigenous collection by author Rhona S. Baptiste. It has been expanded to include new contributions to the vernacular since its first publication in 1994. The words of the late educator Esmond Ramesar however still holds: "She has drawn widely on Amerindian, French, Spanish, Hindi, African and English sources for phrases." It is a book for all Trini lovers.


Gracianna

Gracianna

Author: Trini Amador

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781608325702

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The gripping story of Gracianna a French-Basque girl forced to make impossible decisions after being recruited into the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris "


She's All Caught Up

She's All Caught Up

Author: Jamila T. Davis

Publisher: Voices International Publications Inc.

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0991104153

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She's All Caught Up is a cautionary tale for young people enamored by the fast life and the older folks that love them. This memoir tells of the negative influences that swayed the early life of author Jamila T. Davis (creator of the Voices of Consequences Enrichment Series). She is currently serving a 151 month sentence for her role in a multi-million dollar bank fraud scheme. Young Jamila grew up in a loving, middle class home. Her hardworking parents, the Davises, overcame the barriers of poverty and racism faced by African Americans in the segregated South. From the back wood shacks of the rural south, the Davises migrated north, making Jamaica Queens, New York their new home. They drove themselves relentlessly. By education and endless hard work, they attained their portion of the American dream. Determined to afford their own children the opportunities they themselves never had, the Davises provided their children with a good life, hoping to guarantee their children's success.


The Fundamentals of Comorian

The Fundamentals of Comorian

Author: Nadhuf Nadhur

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13:

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This book is provided for everyone who is interested in learning, reading and writing the Comorian language. The main features of the book include the following: part of speech, relatives, tenses, demonstrative, phrases, clauses and sentences. Grammatical explanations are always provided through interactive exercises and comprehensive vocabulary translated into English.


White Gypsies

White Gypsies

Author: Eva Woods Peiró

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0816645841

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Reveals how Spanish film musicals, long dismissed as unworthy of critical scrutiny, illuminate Spain's relationship to modernity


Bermuda Schwartz

Bermuda Schwartz

Author: Bob Morris

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-01-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780312997496

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From a bestselling, Edgar Award]-nominated author comes another suspenseful, rollicking island yarn sure to glue readers to the pages. Entertaining and evocative.--"Chicago Sun-Times." Martins Press.


(Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice

(Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice

Author: Juliet Langman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1482269554

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The articles in this special issue examine the relationship between gender identity and second language learning from a variety of perspectives, all of which share a basic grounding in sociocultural theories of learning and poststructural theories of language. (Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice presents a range of approaches to questions regarding the role of gender identity in a set of distinct local contexts. In this issue, Guest Editor Juliet Langman contends that an examination of the tensions between past and current ways of expressing identity will allow for continued theorizing on the nature of gender identity and its role in multiple language learning and use.