Los Amigos De Becky
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Los Amigos De Becky
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Author : Rolando Hinojosa
language : es
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Los Amigos De Becky written by Rolando Hinojosa and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a glimpse through the eyes of the female side of Klail City.
Conversations With Contemporary Chicana And Chicano Writers
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Author : Hector Avalos Torres
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2007
Conversations With Contemporary Chicana And Chicano Writers written by Hector Avalos Torres and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Collections categories.
Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.
Patrones Gramaticales
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Author : Michael Galek
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Patrones Gramaticales written by Michael Galek and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Do you need to improve your Spanish for class, work, or travel? Patrones Gramaticales can help you review or advance your Spanish skills. It can also be used as an extensive and comprehensive Spanish grammar reference that focuses on understanding the patterns evident in the Spanish language. Progressing in difficulty, the fifteen chapters begin with a dialogue of experiences among Californian university students studying Spanish in the beautiful country of Ecuador. You follow their adventures while learning and reviewing Latin culture and the basic essentials and the advanced details of Spanish grammar. All of the verb conjugations, adverbs, with verb pronouns, nouns and adjectives, conjunctions, comparisons, superlatives, prepositions, and special cases are included. The explanations of predictable patterns in the Spanish language will help you to understand and use Spanish at a higher level. Additionally, with almost two hundred exercises and answers included, you have the flexibility to select what you need and work at your own pace. No matter how you decide to utilize this material, Patrones Gramaticales will provide opportunities to improve your use and understanding of Spanish.
Hispanic Immigrant Literature
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Author : Nicolás Kanellos
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Hispanic Immigrant Literature written by Nicolás Kanellos and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a population united by that language, irrespective of national origin; and it solidifies and furthers national identity. The literature of immigration reflects the reasons for emigrating, records—both orally and in writing—the trials and tribulations of immigration, and facilitates adjustment to the new society while maintaining links with the old society. Based on an archive assembled over the past two decades by author Nicolás Kanellos's Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project, this comprehensive study is one of the first to define this body of work. Written and recorded by people from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, the texts presented here reflect the dualities that have characterized the Hispanic immigrant experience in the United States since the mid-nineteenth century, set always against a longing for homeland.
Border Theory
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Author : Scott Michaelsen
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1997
Border Theory written by Scott Michaelsen and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Political Science categories.
Border Theory was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Challenging the prevailing assumption that border studies occurs only in "the borderlands" where Mexico and the United States meet, the authors gathered in this volume examine the multiple borders that define the United States and the Americas, including the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S.- Canadian border, the shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and the colonization and confinement of American Indians. The texts assembled here examine the way border studies beckons us to rethink all objects of study and intellectual disciplines as versions of a border problematic. These writers-drawn from anthropology, history, and language studies-critique the terrain, limits, and possibilities of border theory. They examine, among other topics, the "soft" or "friendly" borders produced by ethnic studies, antiassimilationist or "difference" multiculturalisms, liberal anthropologies, and benevolent nationalisms. Referring to a range of theory (anthropological, sociological, feminist, Marxist, European postmodernist and poststructuralist, postcolonial, and ethnohistorical), the authors trace the genealogical and logical links between these discourses and border studies. A timely critique of a field just now revealing its explosive potential, this volume maps the intellectual topography of border theory and challenges the epistemological and political foundations of border studies. Contributors are Russ Castronovo, Elaine K. Chang, Louis Kaplan, Alejandro Lugo, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and Patricia Seed. Scott Michaelsen is assistant professor of English at Michigan State University. David E. Johnson is lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Rolando Hinojosa
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Author : Klaus Zilles
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2001
Rolando Hinojosa written by Klaus Zilles and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
The first comprehensive interpretation of the work of a major figure in Chicano literature, Klaus Zilles's study of the fourteen novels in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series will appeal equally to the specialist, to the student, and to the interested reader of Hinojosa's intriguing and innovative "Tejano" novels. The series is dedicated to revealing the suppressed oral history of Mexican Texas and to making the reader a companion on a quest for this elusive history. Published between 1973 and 1998, the Klail City series ranges in historical time from the mid-1700s to the end of the twentieth century, attesting to 250 years of Spanish-Mexican presence in the Lower Río Grande Valley of Texas. The main body of Hinojosa's series, however, is set in fictitious Belken County, located on the U.S./Mexico border, and charts the lives of Hinojosa's two protagonists, Rafe Buenrostro and his cousin, Jehú Malacara, two men raised in the rigidly segregated world of a South Texas farming community. The Klail City series constitutes a truly "novel" approach to the novel: each installment in the cycle differs from the one before it in genre (the adult Buenrostro becomes a police detective and appears in several mystery novels), in narrative style (one novel is written entirely in verse, while another takes epistolary form), or in language (Hinojosa writes in Spanish, in English, in Chicano idiom, and in mixtures of all three). Zilles accomplishment is to provide a critical guide to the complicated fictional world that Hinojosa creates. By showing the profusion of forms and styles Hinojosa deploys, Zilles reveals the true dimensions of Hinojosa's design. "What makes Zilles so refreshing is his style. . . . He writes in a language accessible to the average reader. His work is solid, informative, thoughtful, and useful. I recommend it highly."--Juan Bruce-Novoa, Harvard University
Dear Rafe Mi Querido Rafa
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Author : Rolando Hinojosa
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 2005-06-30
Dear Rafe Mi Querido Rafa written by Rolando Hinojosa and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to Klail City, in Belken County, along the Mexico border in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. In the weeks leading up to the Democratic primary, Jehu Malacara chronicles the political rabble-rousing of Klail City's wealthiest citizens in letters to his cousin Rafe Buenrostro. Led by Arnold "Noddy" Perkins, the who's who of Belken County create a complex web of relationships. Wrangling bank loans, club memberships, and local politics, Perkins dominates the political and economic landscape of the community. When Malacara turns up missing, and the writer, P. Galindo, begins interviewing the citizens, tales of deceit and betrayal float to the surface. From Jehu's knockout girlfriend Ollie to up-and-coming socialite Becky Escobar and even to old man Perkins himself, Hinojosa offers a feast of quirky characters and misdeeds. Part epistolary, part mystery novel, the population of Klail City makes an indelible impression. With an introduction by Hinojosa scholar Manuel Martín-Rodríguez, a professor at University of California Merced, this volume combines for the first time the English and Spanish-language versions of the novel that creates a fictitious community that The New York Times compared to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo.
Latino Writers And Journalists
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Author : Jamie Martinez Wood
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Latino Writers And Journalists written by Jamie Martinez Wood and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with American literature categories.
Provides short biographies of Latino American writers and journalists and information on their works.
Chicano Detective Fiction
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Author : Susan Baker Sotelo
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Chicano Detective Fiction written by Susan Baker Sotelo and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
In his 1985 novel Partners in Crime, writer Rolando Hinojosa introduced homicide investigator Rafe Buenrostro, the first Chicano protagonist in one of the most enduring genres of modern literature. Since that time, Chicano writers have embraced the detective novel, successfully diversifying and refining a traditional Anglo American and British genre. The 21 whodunits of Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Michael Nava and Manuel Ramos are closely studied in this groundbreaking work. The models, both contemporary and Romantic, of this relatively new Chicano genre are first discussed. Next come detailed analysis and reviews of such novels as Shaman Winter, Partners in Crime, Cactus Blood and 18 others, focusing on how each writer departs from contemporary detective genre formula, uniquely rendering a particular regional or cultural variation of what it means to be Chicano. It is this departure from the norm that defines these writings and distinguishes them from the Anglo American and British whodunit. Interviews with the writers conclude the work.
The Valley Estampas Del Valle
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Author : Rolando Hinojosa
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 2014-04-30
The Valley Estampas Del Valle written by Rolando Hinojosa and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with Fiction categories.
In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side by side, in good times and bad. ñThe worldÍs a drugstore: youÍll find a little bit of just about everything, and itÍs usually on sale, too. Belken County, Texas is part of the world, and so, itÍs no different; its people are packaged in cellophane and they, too, come in all sizes, shapes and in a choice of colors.î Some are brave; others are craven. Some are sharp, and some are dull. Death calls on a regular basis in this first installment of HinojosaÍs acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series. JehÏ Malacara was seven when his mother died and nine when his father passed. He has family, but itÍs Don VÕctor Pelàez who takes him in and makes him an integral part of the Pelàez Tent Show. When la muerte comes for Don VÕctor, JehÏ is orphaned again. Others die in bar room brawls, in a clandestine amorous tryst at the local Holiday Inn and on the street. Hinojosa paints his canvas with a montage of lifeÍs eventsbirths, weddings, friendships and love affairsbut his brushwork all too frequently highlights the discrimination experienced by Mexican Americans. They lose their land to Anglos, are paid with rotten fruit for their labor and are refused admission to certain cafes. But life goes on. Young men go to war and old men remember their wars, whether the Mexican Revolution, World War II or the Korean War. This classic novel was originally published in the early 1970s as Estampas del Valle and in the early 1980s as The Valley. Frequently compared to William FaulknerÍs Yoknapatawpha and Gabriel GarcÕa MàrquezÍs Macondo, Rolando HinojosaÍs Klail City Death Trip Series is required reading for anyone interested in life along the Texas-Mexico border in the twentieth century.