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Author: Coleman A. Jennings
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780312337148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of plays, many of which are based on favorite children's tales, including such titles as : "Charlotte's Web, ""Really Rosie, ""Wiley and the Hairy Man, ""Wise men of Chelm, ""and "The Crane Wife."
Author: Emma Southon
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Published: 2018-08-08
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1911586610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey said she was a tyrant, a murderer and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognised as an equal and a leader. For her audacity, she was murdered by her son and reviled by history. She was the sister, niece, wife and mother of emperors. She was an empress in her own right. And she was a nuanced, fearless trailblazer in the Roman world. The story of Agrippina – the first empress of Rome – is the story of an empire at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless height.
Author: María Herrera-Sobek
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780253207951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK... well-written and well-documented landmark study... " --Choice This book raises important ideological and esthetic questions about the interpretation of artistic and cultural manifestations in a given society."--Hispanic American Historical Review The present volume is provocative in direction and a refreshing addition to the extant literature on the Mexican corrido genre." --American Ethnologist [Herrera-Sobek's] refreshing approach to analyzing masculine attitudes toward the feminine as expressed in the Mexican corrido is not only insightful but courageous." --Inez Cardozo-Freeman, Southern Folklore ... well-researched, insightful, clearly written, and well-illustrated study of a genre familiar in Hispanic culture." --Journal of the American Studies Association ... provides tantalizing insights into the inner workings and meanings of Mexico's favorite folk ballads..." --Journal of Third World Studies Challenging the stereotypical view of the passive Mexican/Chicana woman of the archetype, the author examines the portrayal of female figures in over three thousand corridos or Mexican ballads and shows that in spite of long-dominant patriarchal ideology, the corridos reveal the presence of self-confident women throughout Mexican history. Included are a discography, a detailed bibliography of corrido collections, and several photographs of soldaderas from the internationally famous Augustin Casasola collection.
Author: Antonia Garcia
Publisher: Palibrio
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1463373147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has family stories that date back from 1875 to the present. Stories that took place at the rancheras (rural settlements) in the region of los Altos de Jalisco, Mexico, during and after the Cristero revolution. It recounts the ways of living, celebrations, and disciplines passed on from one generation to the next. The experiences of immigrant people and the challenges and opportunities they encounter in the United States. It talks about the pain families experience when they lose a loved one in another country and cannot physically be by their side. This book depicts the story of an unexpected accident and what happens in the unconscious mind of a dying person. It talks about how some human beings see life and death. There are testimonies of people who had dared to dream and achieve their dreams. A large family learned to heal the wounds from their past and it shares how they live after accomplishing their emotional healing.
Author: Rosario Ferré
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-29
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1480481777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “colorful family saga” set against the dramatic historical backdrop of twentieth-century Puerto Rico, from an author nominated for the National Book Award (Kirkus Reviews). Elvira Vernet narrates Eccentric Neighborhoods as she attempts to solve the mystery of who her parents truly are. Her mother, the beautiful and aristocratic Clarissa Rivas de Santillana, was born into a rarefied world of privilege, one of five daughters on the family’s sugar plantation. Elvira’s father, Aurelio Vernet, and his three brothers and two sisters were raised by Santiago, a Cuban immigrant who ruled his family with an iron hand. As Puerto Rico struggles for independence—and Aurelio takes his place among the powerful political gentry—a legacy of violence, infidelity, faith, and sacrifice is born. Set against the backdrop of a country coming of age, Eccentric Neighborhoods is a lush, transcendent novel, a family saga about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children. In this magnificent follow-up to The House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferré delivers a work of historical fiction influenced by magical realism and infused with forgiveness and love.
Author: Guiomar Dueñas Vargas
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0826355854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Of Love and Other Passions Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas delves into the world of emotions among the bourgeois elite in Bogotà from the end of the colonial period to 1870. While most studies of the period focus solely on the countryâ (TM)s political activity, Dueñas-Vargas shows how Colombiaâ (TM)s social, cultural, and political changes transformed the meaning of love, which contributed to the evolution of new models of femininity and masculinity. By examining sources such as personal letters and diaries, Dueñas-Vargas presents the emotional profiles of families and couples, demonstrating how their conduct challenged the established order. As lovers insisted on choosing their own mates rather than marrying spouses selected by their parents, they undermined the patriarchal structure of Colombian society. Such decisions unveil the many functions women assumed in both public and private life and how they participated in the invention of a nation.
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 1026
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tamara Macpherson Vukusic
Publisher: Mosaic Press
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1771615303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating collection of essays inspired by real obituaries and filled with quirky anecdotes, interesting perspectives, and thoughtful observations. Obittersweet delivers 120 life lessons, each dotted with a question to encourage meaningful reflection and organized into one theme for each month of the calendar year. Whether you have an insatiable curiosity about people, an appreciation of the craft of writing, or may be a connoisseur of the art of living, Obittersweet is a book to be cherished. This read is both timely and timeless. Readers will be back to purchase copies to gift to loved ones.
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1936932946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism By one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the political experience of collective pain. Grieving is a hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together literary theory and historical analysis, she outlines how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking—culminating in the misnamed “war on drugs”—has shaped her country. Working from and against this political context, Cristina Rivera Garza posits that collective grief is an act of resistance against state violence, and that writing is a powerful mode of seeking social justice and embodying resilience. She states: “As we write, as we work with language—the humblest and most powerful force available to us—we activate the potential of words, phrases, sentences. Writing as we grieve, grieving as we write: a practice able to create refuge from the open. Writing with others. Grieving like someone who takes refuge from the open. Grieving, which is always a radically different mode of writing.” “A lucid, poignant collection of essays and poetry. . . . deeply hopeful, ultimately love letters to writing itself, and to the power of language to overcome the silence that impunity imposes.” —New York Times Book Review "For all the losses tallied, the pieces are imbued with optimism and an activist’s passion for reshaping the world." —The New Yorker
Author: Erika Jolma
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Published: 2019-06-21
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1522302212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the Great War clamors into Finland, Sergeant Matti Ranta of the Finnish Conscripted Corps and his new girlfriend Anna Ojala struggle to keep their lives intact. Matti is sent to the front to lay siege on Leningrad in alliance with a terrible enemy. Torn between his desire to regain his homeland and an aching suspicion that what they are doing isn't right, Matti is forced to make an unimaginable choice to save an orphan who will surely die without his intervention. Set in 1940's Finland and Leningrad, this story weaves two cultures together through the lives of three people who never should have met, but who would be inexplicably drawn together through a great miracle of faith in a time when miracles seem impossible. And in the end, love survives.
