Download or read book Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area written by Elaine K. Miller and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Los Angeles is the setting in which Elaine Miller has collected her narratives from Mexican-Americans. The Mexican folk tradition, varied and richly expressive of the inner life not only of a people but also of the individual as each lives it and personalizes it, is abundantly present in the United States. Since it is in the urban centers that most Mexican-Americans have lived, this collection represents an important contribution to the study of that tradition and to the study of the changes urban life effects on traditional folklore. The collection includes sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales. The legendary narratives deal with the virgins and saints as well as with such familiar characters as the vanishing hitchhiker, the headless horseman, and the llorona. Familiar characters appear in the traditional tales—Juan del Oso, Blancaflor, Pedro de Ordimalas, and others. Elaine Miller concludes that the traditional tales are dying out in the city because tale telling itself is not suited to the fast pace of modern urban life, and the situations and characters in the tales are not perceived by the people to be meaningfully related to the everyday challenges and concerns of that life. The legendary tales survive longer in an urban setting because, although containing fantastic elements, they are related to the beliefs and hopes of the narrator—even in the city one may be led to buried treasure on some dark night by a mysterious woman. The penchant of the informants for the fantastic in many of their tales often reflects their hopes and fears, such as their dreams of suddenly acquiring wealth or their fears of being haunted by the dead. Miller closely observes the teller's relation to the stories—to the duendes, the ánimas, Death, God, the devil—and she notes the tension on the part of the informant in his relation to their religion. The material is documented according to several standard tale and motif indices and is placed within the context of the larger body of Hispanic folk tradition by the citation of parallel versions throughout the Hispanic world. The tales, transcribed from taped interviews, are presented in colloquial Spanish accompanied by summaries in English.

Download or read book Chicana Feminisms written by Patricia Zavella and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicana Feminisms presents new essays on Chicana feminist thought by scholars, creative writers, and artists. This volume moves the field of Chicana feminist theory forward by examining feminist creative expression, the politics of representation, and the realities of Chicana life. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, history, literature, and psychology, the distinguished contributors combine scholarly analysis, personal observations, interviews, letters, visual art, and poetry. The collection is structured as a series of dynamic dialogues: each of the main pieces is followed by an essay responding to or elaborating on its claims. The broad range of perspectives included here highlights the diversity of Chicana experience, particularly the ways it is made more complex by differences in class, age, sexual orientation, language, and region. Together the essayists enact the contentious, passionate conversations that define Chicana feminisms. The contributors contemplate a number of facets of Chicana experience: life on the Mexico-U.S. border, bilingualism, the problems posed by a culture of repressive sexuality, the ranchera song, and domesticana artistic production. They also look at Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the history of Chicanas in the larger Chicano movement, autobiographical writing, and the interplay between gender and ethnicity in the movie Lone Star. Some of the essays are expansive; others—such as Norma Cantú’s discussion of the writing of her fictionalized memoir Canícula—are intimate. All are committed to the transformative powers of critical inquiry and feminist theory. Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Gabriela F. Arredondo, Ruth Behar, Maylei Blackwell, Norma E. Cantú, Sergio de la Mora, Ann duCille, Michelle Fine, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Rebecca M. Gámez, Jennifer González, Ellie Hernández, Aída Hurtado, Claire Joysmith, Norma Klahn, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Anna Nieto Gomez, Renato Rosaldo, Elba Rosario Sánchez, Marcia Stephenson, Jose Manuel Valenzuela, Patricia Zavella

Download or read book Repase y escriba written by Maria Canteli Dominicis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perennial best-seller is written for Advanced Grammar and Composition or Advanced Composition and Conversation classes. Repase y escriba combines solid grammar coverage with contemporary readings from a variety of sources, including literature, magazines, and newspapers. Readings are preceded by a short passage introducing the author and the context and is followed by vocabulary, comprehension questions and conversation prompts. The Sección léxica teaches readers proverbs, idioms, and word families. There are also topics for creative compositions with guidelines. With updated literary and cultural readings, Repase y Escriba includes an "oral exchange," to make the text more useful when stressing conversation.

Download or read book Grammar of the Mexican Language written by Horacio Carochi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary native language of central Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest, Nahuatl was used from the mid-sixteenth century forward in an astounding array of alphabetic written documents. James Lockhart, an eminent historian of early Latin America, is the leading interpreter of Nahuatl texts. One of his main tools of instruction has been Horacio Carochi's monumental 1645 Arte de la lengua mexicana, the most influential work ever published on Nahuatl grammar. This new edition includes the original Spanish and an English translation on facing pages. The corpus of examples, source of much of our knowledge about vowel quality and glottal stop in Nahuatl, is presented once in its original form, once in a rationalized manner. Copious footnotes provide explanatory commentary and more literal translations of some of Carochi's examples. The volume is an indispensable pedagogical tool and the first critical edition of the premier monument of Nahuatl grammatical literature.

Download or read book El Hombre Que Naci Tres Veces written by Carlos Giral and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos llego a este bendecido pais como refugiado cubano; con la esperanza de vivir y criar a su familia dentro de la libertad y el respeto al que todo ser humano tiene derecho. Este libro esta escrito para todo el que lo lea, le sirva de inspiracion el saber que no importa en que situacion nos encontremos, siempre hay una luz al final del tunel; y esa luz tiene su nombre que es: Jesucristo, Dios de todos y para todos, no importa la raza, el color o de donde vienes; lo importante para El no son nuestros pecados, sino nuestro corazon. Amen.

Download or read book TRAS EL VELO DE DIANA written by ÁNGELA CASAS and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana, en su empeño por ocultar un gran secreto, pierde la oportunidad de descubrir la auténtica verdad.

Download or read book Per el afortunado written by Henrik Pontoppidan and published by Ediciones de la Torre. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escrita a caballo entre el siglo XIX y el siglo XX, nos sumerge de lleno en la crisis cultural y social que sacude al continente con la irrupción de la modernidad y que no es sino un preámbulo de la crisis de identidad del hombre actual. Por la maestría en la disección de toda una época, la novela de Pontoppidan es sólo comparable a las del alemán Thomas Mann, pero la complejidad de sus personajes y la furia con que se debaten contra su destino la emparentan sobre todo con la obra de Dostoievski, el gran novelista ruso.

Download or read book Las Tonterias de Mi Vida written by Jose Luis N. Mendez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En la antigüedad existieron mundos distintos a los que conocemos, pero en uno en especial, Anthemia, había tres seres puros los cuales comenzaron a perfeccionarse provocando que poco a poco esa perfección fuera su destrucción, dándose rivalidades entre ellos provocando la destrucción de su mundo. Doce ángeles caídos al traicionar su ciudad comenzaron a tratar de solucionar el caos provocado, llegando a la tierra en búsqueda de un nuevo comienzo. Mientras uno de los hermanos logra salvar la mayor parte de todos los tesoros de la ciudad mandándolos al planeta tierra, dándose cuenta de la existencia de varios mundos y dimensiones. Al pasar el tiempo, comenzaron a mezclarse con los humanos y a intervenir en la vida de estos, comenzaron a perder sus dones y la pureza que tenían, las guerras entre los seres por gobernar a los humanos iniciaba. El conocimiento entre el bien y el mal empezaba...

Download or read book Allegories of Dissent written by Sharon G. Feldman and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegories of Dissent, the first book devoted to the literature of Agustin Gomez-Arcos, is a case study of the relationship between art and oppression. It positions his theater in relation to the historical trajectories of twentieth-century Spanish and European drama, and in so doing, traces the allegorical strategies and thematic transformations that emerge in his work during the course of his radical move from censored artist to bilingual exile. Gomez-Arcos's threefold experience with censorship, exile, and bilingualism has left a lasting imprint on his literary production. As he embarks on an artistic journey from censored playwright living in dictatorial Spain to bilingual exile writer residing in democratic France, his gradual employment of the French language comes to allegorize his quest for freedom of expression.

Download or read book Los Encuentros written by Julian Martinez Yordan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El contenido de este libro es extremadamente complicado pero fácil de entender. Los temas están divididos en quince encuentros conversacionales entre un profesor universitario retirado y un joven estudiante. Ambos desarrollan una amistad extraordinaria y los temas tratados revelan que hay un misterio espiritual en un lugar no circunscrito y no antes explorado en nuestra vida. Debemos entender que como resultado de nuestras experiencias adquiridas todos tenemos una forma de pensar, de actuar y ver la vida. Por esta razón, es posible que alguno de los temas tratados entre en conflicto con la manera de pensar que hasta ahora hayas tenido. Pero al analizarlos, y entenderlos estos se incorporan a nuestro conocimiento creando cambios de ideas y los conflictos intelectuales se desvanecen. Entonces despertamos a un nuevo amanecer. Seremos felices, prospero, tendremos abundancia, buenas amistades, salud y energía para controlar el dolor, suprimir enfermedades y todo aquello en la mayoría de las veces te maltrata y te abusa. La decisión de explorar esa nueva realidad, constituye el primer paso hacia la iluminación. Aumentaras tu conocimiento y cambiaras tu manera de pensar y ver la vida. Porque, "cuando la mente conoce, al cuerpo no le queda otra cosa que cambiar". El camino resultara muy agradable y comprenderás que "lo importante no es llegar si no que vas de camino"

Download or read book Salve Regina written by Erica Fuentes and published by Casablanca Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durante un siglo, Villa Vistamar ha reinado como el mejor internado católico para jovencitas en los Estados Unidos; sus sacrosantos edificios han sido un hogar para inumerables numerosas jovencitas ¿peculiarmente, hijas de familias millonarias, y políticamente vulnerables¿ originarias de países extranjeros. Juntas de nuevo, durante una reunión de su generación, dos viejas amigas y compañeras del internado, aún intrigadas por los misterios del histórico convento donde vivieron su juventud, se empeñan en descubrir tanto los secretos de la vieja hacienda del suroeste, como la relación tan extraña entre las Hermanas de Santo Tomás y su benefactor. Convencidas de que descubrirían la clave del misterio en los viejos y macabros baúles que las monjas guardan en el sótano del convento, incursionan furtivamente, al amparo de la oscuridad nocturna, a las catacumbas de la antigua abadía, quedando literalmente atrapadas en un callejón sin salida; envueltas en una historia de intriga eclesiástica de la cual no existe escapatoria otra que descubrir la verdad. Varios encuentros terroríficos con los Guardianes de la Iglesia, que protegen los secretos que las mujeres han resuelto descifrar; así como la muerte de una anciana monja, anteriormente Madre Superiora de la Congregación, las llevan al descubrimiento de un escondrijo que guarda un millonario tesoro de un valor incalculable y que protege un tesoro aún mayor: un secreto que la Iglesia ha ocultado del mundo durante las últimas nueve décadas de la historia de Europa Oriental, bajo el código eclesiástico de Salve Regina.

Download or read book La Felicidad Es Tu Responsabilidad written by José Bernardo Vargas Ruiz and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Eres feliz? Si no puedes responder a esta pregunta con la certeza y rapidez como lo harías cuando alguien te pregunta: ¿ya comiste?, significa que tienes dudas para expresar el estado emocional más anhelado por todo ser humano, el estado de la felicidad. Pero si tus dudas aumentan cuando te preguntan: ¿crees en la felicidad permanente?, quiere decir que ya es tiempo de comenzar a indagar sobre las posibles causas que impiden manifestar en ti el estado de felicidad; es decir, no te enredes tratando de responder si eres feliz o no, mejor opta por identificar los obstáculos que te impiden contestar en automático, tal y como lo haces cuando se te hace la pregunta relacionada con la comida. Si te atreves a buscar dichos obstáculos ¡ya ganaste! Porque por lo menos te planteas la posibilidad de creer y aceptar que la felicidad está en ti, pero no se manifiesta debido a la existencia de obstáculos que deben ser eliminados; si te motivas a detectarlos y a removerlos, observarás que también desaparecen las causas de tu infelicidad y ya no tendrás que esforzarte buscando afuera de ti los motivos de tu desventura. De este mismo modo, empezarás a establecer prioridades en tu propia vida, responsabilizándote de ti mismo y agudizando tu auto-observación para identificar y eliminar de tu interior dichos obstáculos. De eso trata este libro, de motivarte a identificarlos, sugiriéndote técnicas eficaces para removerlos, de tal manera que tu felicidad se exprese clara y nítidamente en el brillo de tus ojos, en tu cara, en tu cuerpo entero y sea manifestada desde el centro de tu corazón hacia todos quienes te rodean.

Download or read book Essays in Honor of Enrique Garc a D ez written by Antonia Sánchez Macarro and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 1991 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All great novels are critical novels (that is to say, experimental novels) wich, under the pretense of telling a story, of bringing characters to life, of interpreting situations, slide under our eyes the mirage of a tangible form.

Download or read book DESTINO MIAMI written by ÁNGELA CASAS and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marta vuela a Miami con la intención de tomarse unas cálidas vacaciones; pero debido a su parecido con una famosa actriz, se ve envuelta en situaciones marcadas por la confusión, convirtiendo su estancia en una nube de sorpresas inesperadas.

Download or read book Al Andalus written by Howard Headworth and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting historical novel by Howard Headworth takes us to the 1480s in Spain. For the Spaniards it is the dawn of the golden age of the country. For the moors of Al-Andalus in the south, it is the beginning of a bitter harvest. And Far west, a new world beckons..... Glorious descriptions of battles and conflicts, the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, the tracing of historical events leading to the entrance of the Catholic monarchs in Granada in 1492, a panoply of characters, profiles of the traditions and skills of the Muslim peasants in Al-Andalus, and finally the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Indies, make this book a unique treasure. Howard Headworth lives in Almeria, Spain, for twenty years. He was born in Wales and studied geology at the university there and in London. He uses his great experience as a scientific director as well as his passion for the history of his adopted country in this historical novel.

Download or read book New Chicana Chicano Writing written by Charles M. Tatum and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers poetry and fiction by such Mexican-American authors as Dagoberto Gilb and Rowena A. Rivera

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