Download or read book Kissing the Mango Tree written by Carmen Socorro Rivera and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering novelist and short-story writer Nicholasa Mohr broke onto the literary scene of ethnic autobiography in the early 1970s, but it took another decade for other Puerto Rican women writers in the United States to follow the path that she cut. From the late 1970s on, a dynamic group of these writers have expanded the landscape of American literature. Kissing the Mango Tree is the first and only book to examine the works of the most popular Puerto Rican women writers from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. Rivera reconstructs the ethno-feminist aesthetic of Judith Ortiz Cofer, Sandra María Esteves, Nicholasa Mohr, Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales, Esmeralda Santiago, and Luz María Umpierre-Herrera. In separate chapters dedicated to each of these writers, the author locates their works within the framework of feminist theory and literature, seeing them as "women with macho asserting their creative powers to record their own versions of their memories, to own their own bodies. . . They transform the way we look at the process of growing up and becoming a woman, at the relationship with our mothers and our daughters, at the fluidity of our lives, at our notions of nationhood . . ." This groundbreaking study is accompanied by a complete bibliography of the six writers' works and secondary sources of feminist, Latino, and ethno-poetic criticism and theory.
Download or read book Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing written by Andrea Fernández-García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies, tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society with modernity and their girls’ cultures of origin with backwardness and oppression, these texts contribute to reimagining the social differently from what the dominant imagery offers. By illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an analysis of how the girls’ development is shaped by these structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the longstanding characterization of young people, and especially Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds.
Download or read book Companion to Johnson s Dictionary written by John Mendies and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Mango Tree written by Tracy Hunter and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This particular book was inspired by my father. He was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii. As a child, I really did spend many summers going to Hawaii with my grandmother to visit family there. My uncle had a huge mango tree in his backyard, and he would let me pick them just as the girl in the story does. I wanted a children's book that brought out fantasy and imagination for children, as well as taught them something. I have a love for animals and nature, and so I decided to combine trees and animals. My intention is to create a series that will always relate to personal experiences with a different kind of tree and the animals that inhabit them. I was raised in the central coast of California, and so my next book will be about oak trees as our property had many of them as did the surrounding area. I am still contemplating which animal I will choose. Lani's character is inspired by me as a child hanging out in Hawaii. She is a dreamer with a great imagination as I hope all children have. She is also very curious and has a thirst for knowledge, again a hope I want to inspire in children. The bat family characters all have very different character traits, but as a family unit, I think children will find them fun and easy to relate to. The message is simple. Use your imagination, dreaming is a good thing, be curious, and go learn from it, and it is OK that things in life are not always permanent. It just might mean there is something better around the corner, so don't stop looking. Mahalo.
Download or read book Abridgment of Johnson s Dictionary English and Bengali written by John Mendies and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mango s Kiss written by Albert Wendt and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic novel stretching out from Samoa to Europe, America and New Zealand, from the turn of the nineteenth century, through the First World War, the Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond. Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own. A fictional world focused on Samoa and New Zealand and reaching out to the centres of the world, a world inhabited by the richest menagerie of characters in Pacific fiction, characters whose lives and stories reflect our own complex depths. Sixteen years in the writing, The Mango's Kiss is a striking addition to that world. Pele's first moment of remembered consciousness is the morning kiss of the mango fruit on her cheek. That kiss brings with it the awareness of mortality, pleasure and pain. It is a gift from her father, Mautu Tuifolau, the local pastor, the man she adores. Love is never simple, though, and in this story of the struggles and passions of Pele and her family, it must adapt to the growing world that stretches out from village life in Samoa to the cities of Europe, America and New Zealand. It must accommodate the conflicts of a gifted family and the attraction of extraordinary outsiders, from a famous English writer to an American anthropologist, missionaries and the trader Barker, with his quest for gold and epic tales of an adventurous past. And it must encompass the family's links to the ancient gods of pre-missionary times and move through the turn of the nineteenth century, the First World War, the terrible Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond.
Download or read book The Mango Tree written by Thomas Steddum and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book Roots as Strong as a Mango Tree written by Sandra Hardy and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Victoria Pickersgill, the only child of an upper middle class Jamaican couple, finds her idyllic life turned upside down when her family suffers a tragic loss. That seminal moment in her life is eclipsed, however, when she discovers that her parents have been keeping a shocking secret. At first, she wants to learn more but is quickly overwhelmed by what she finds. Hiding a deep-seated shame, she decides to put it all behind her in the same tight-lipped tradition of her family. When she meets Stephen Blake, a handsome, self-confident boy, she falls devotedly in love with him. But Stephen has a secret of his own that brings their relationship to a sudden end, devastating Victoria. Surprisingly it is Jean King, the family's housekeeper, who becomes her anchor, guiding her until she leaves for college with the goal of leaving her demons behind. But the past intrudes on the present. Stephen comes back into her life six years after breaking her heart, determined to get her back. And new revelations regarding that long buried secret, forces Victoria to ask herself if it's possible to chart her future if she cannot face her past.
Download or read book The 34th Degree written by Thomas Greanias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 34th Degree" is a continuation of the thrilling adventure that began with "The Promised War, " featuring Israeli counter-terrorism agent Sam Deker.
Download or read book The Legend of the White Leopard and Other Stories written by Ben O'Lee and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben O'Lee's exposé of captivating and thrilling short stories center on fate, relationships, adversity, providence, and social-political injustice. The Legend of the White Leopard and Other Stories foretells the future of people and captures the mysterious parallels of fate between man and wildlife. It's an unusual complex tale of love, infidelity, and personal schemes that threatens the ruin of families, a journey of self-discovery orchestrated by a grand universal design to fulfill individual destinies, as well as a remarkable display of loyalty and the triumph of the human spirit over adversity to drive social-political change.
Download or read book Mango Kisses written by Elisabeth Rose and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweet, summery, beach - side romance from the author of E for England and The Ripple Effect. Sent to assess a deceased estate in a small coastal town, ambitious city girl Tiffany Holland is initially annoyed by the out - of - the - way assignment. But she soon discovers sleepy Birrigai hides a wealth of surprises: a cross - dressing motel manager, a Kissing College and her client Miles Frobisher, the laid back, surf - shop owning, real life sex fantasy. Tiffany's ambition is to become a junior partner in her financial firm, but small town life and the proximity of Miles gradually seduce her. But a shocking discovery in the estate papers leads to a dramatic change in Miles's circumstances. Emotionally inept, Tiffany is unable to help Miles through the transition, and drives him away. With misunderstandings and secrets creating frost between them, it seems that their summer romance is destined to go cold. Can they overcome their differences and learn to accept their feelings?
Download or read book The Mango Tree written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Mango Tree Cafe Loi Kroh Road written by Alan Solomon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine owning a restaurant near the jungles of Thailand that sits upon the most legendary mystical road in the world. Legend states that whomever walks upon Loi Kroh Road will be forever changed or shall never be seen or heard from again. In fact, the English translation of "Loi Kroh Road" is "Wash Your Bad Luck Away." Larry, the main character, is seductively lured to this world famous street to purchase this restaurant. The restaurant serves as a place where he observes world travelers such as himself as well as locals who discover their fate upon this historic road. He is on a journey to discover his mission in life as he is guided by a ghostly figure that appeared to him as a child. On his adventures, he comes face to face with his greatest fear, his lingering questions of mortality and his soul's lonely reflection
Download or read book Cynbel Zothia written by Roland Rodene and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynbel & Zothia tells the story of two young people engaged in a unique but emblematic love affair. There is an extraordinary garden, a mysterious one nurtured by Cynthia's great-great-grandmother Solange, which was anointed by God and is now sustained by her family. It is in this garden that Cynthia wants Zorobabel, her lover, to kiss her for the very first time.
Download or read book The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Download or read book MultiCultural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
