En busca del oro azteca
En busca del oro azteca

Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt

Publisher: Ediciones SM España

Published: 2012-07-18

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 8467556471

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Una piedra centenaria custodia el secreto de un tesoro perdido de los aztecas. ¿Podrá Jack Stalwart detener a los ladrones que se han hecho con este secreto antes de que saqueen el oro de Moctezuma?

Latin American Novels of the Conquest
Latin American Novels of the Conquest

Author: Kimberle S. López

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0826263224

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"The fictionalized explorers and conquistadors represented in this corpus all identify with certain aspects of Amerindian culture - significantly, those elements that are most distinct from European culture, such as cannibalism and human sacrifice - but also feel the need to distance themselves from these "others" in order to protect their own European cultural identity. In most cases, the conquistadors themselves are represented as outsiders within the enterprise of imperialism, due to ethnic, religious, or sexual differences from the norm. This representation turns the gaze inward toward the "other" within European culture, underscoring the complex origins of Latin American cultures in the violent encounter between the Amerindians and the conquistadors." "By examining these issues, Lopez's Latin American Novels of the Conquest illuminates the ways in which Latin American novelists used their literary imaginations to embody their ambivalence regarding their own transcultural heritage as children of both the colonized and the colonizer."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Coyame Es Mi Pueblo
Coyame Es Mi Pueblo

Author: Francisco Javier Morales Natera

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1479734551

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Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories of Coyame’s colorful residents. Morales presents the information with great care and passion; both historians and casual readers will benefit from the candor and whimsy that mark this unique contribution.

Pueblos
Pueblos

Author: Sheri Spaine Long

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780618150489

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"This book is a complete Intermediate Spanish program that systematically presents culture within the context of the historical and political forces that have shaped and continue to shape the Spanish-speaking world. Grammar, vocabulary, and content are merged in a way that emphasizes communication, cultures, comparisons, connections and communities and a comprehensive historic-to-contemporary view of the Spanish-speaking populations and civilizations. The word pueblos refers to places, settlements, civilizations, and nations, but also to groups of people who speak Spanish. This book focuses on how the world's Spanish-speaking cultures and civilizations came into being and developed throughout time." -- BACK COVER.

Malinche
Malinche

Author: Laura Esquivel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-12-09

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1847397182

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An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.