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Book The Legend of La Diosa

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  • Author : Chuck Rosenthal
  • Publisher : Lettersat3ampress
  • Release : 2016-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780991464883
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Legend of La Diosa written by Chuck Rosenthal and published by Lettersat3ampress. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of La Diosa is Chuck Rosenthal's rollicking paean to love, love, love. His story tells us why, when you meet someone you love, you feel as though you've known her/him forever. It's because that's exactly what's happening, you have known that person forever, and journeyed headlong to be face to face at last. Rosenthal's story defies summation but asks the question, "What do you do when you live in the grip of a love you've yet to meet - and it's real." His language cavorts as he spins his audacious tale to focus on happiness as a value. Not many writers dare this because happiness is damned hard to write (and because writers famously now little about it). Fortunately, Chuck Rosenthal knows happiness in love and has lived to tell the tale - the tale of the legend of La Diosa.

Book The Lost Legend

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  • Author : Aseret Franco
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2020-12-09
  • ISBN : 164334577X
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book The Lost Legend written by Aseret Franco and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soleil McCarthy is a teenager concerned solely with finishing her senior year of high school and entering college. However, a trip to Greece will change her life forever. There she will discover stories, lost secrets of gods, and mythologies. She will face dangers and reveal a past that forces her to face a terrible future. The Lost Legend begins Soleil McCarthy's gripping series, a world where Greek and Norse gods, moon wolves, killer lights, underground tunnels, mythological creatures, and secrets from the past will come true just to show her that the legends she had learned about in the past are much more real than she could've ever imagined. Soleil McCarthy es una adolescente preocupada unicamente por terminar su ultimo ano de preparatoria y entrar a la universidad. Sin embargo, un viaje a Grecia hara que su vida cambie para siempre. Ahi descubrira historias, secretos perdidos de dioses, y mitologias. Enfrentara peligros y revelara un pasado que la obligara a enfrentarse a un terrible futuro. La Leyenda Perdida da comienzo a la apasionante serie de Soleil McCarthy, un mundo en el que los dioses griegos y nordicos, lobos lunares, luces asesinas, tuneles subterraneos, creaturas mitologicas y secretos del pasado se vuelven realidad para demostrarle que las leyendas que conocia son mucho mas reales de lo que se podia imaginar.

Book The Latin American Story Finder

Download or read book The Latin American Story Finder written by Sharon Barcan Elswit and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth. One in a series of folklore reference guides ("...an invaluable resource..."--School Library Journal), this book features summaries and sources of 470 tales told in Mexico, Central America and South America, a region underrepresented in collections of world folklore. The volume sends users to the best stories retold in English from the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and colonists, African slave cultures, indentured servants from India, and more than 75 indigenous tribes from 21 countries. The tales are grouped into themed sections with a detailed subject index.

Book I Am Diosa

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  • Author : Christine Gutierrez
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-02-08
  • ISBN : 0593421434
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book I Am Diosa written by Christine Gutierrez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This raw and relatable guide to radical self-care and self-love empowers readers to embrace the powerful Diosa within. In this fiercely inspiring book, psychotherapist Christine Gutierrez welcomes women to join her in healing the wounds from past hurt or trauma to reclaim their worth and come back home to their true self and soul. Diosa is the Spanish word for Goddess. A diosa is anyone who honors the primal feminine energy in the world and within themselves. According to Gutierrez, diosas face obstacles in their lives but are always ready and willing to go to their core to reclaim their inner worth and self-esteem. They are the ones that rise from the ashes and dare to piece themselves back together bone by bone and soul piece by soul piece. From stories of resilience from both Gutierrez and members of her Diosa Tribe, to mantras, meditations, and guided journaling prompts, this book gives women the tools they need to honor their sacred feminine and become who they were always meant to be. I Am Diosa will inspire women to give themselves permission to feel, to be seen, to be heard, and to return to their truest selves.

Book You Can Fly  A Sequel to the Peter Pan Tales

Download or read book You Can Fly A Sequel to the Peter Pan Tales written by Chuck Rosenthal and published by Whitepoint Press. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pandora is the son of Peter Pan and Wendy, but Thomas doesn't know it. They've hidden it from him, wisely or not, to protect him, and they plan to hide it from him all their lives. On the eve of Thomas Pandora's thirteenth birthday, he's visited by a mysterious fairy named Tink who tells him that Hook is back, and without Peter Pan there to protect Never Never Land, Hook will soon have it conquered and despoiled. He, Thomas Pandora, is the only one who can save them.

Book A Star crossed Golden Age

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  • Author : Frederick A. De Armas
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780838753767
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book A Star crossed Golden Age written by Frederick A. De Armas and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute directed by Frederick A. de Armas and contains essays by the director, some of the visiting faculty, and the participants. The book seeks to develop the link between mythology and the comedia through a number of approaches, including astrology, cartomancy, pre-Socratic elemental cosmology, iconography, hagiography, metamorphoses, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian principles, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Santayana's poetics, syncretism, gender studies, and Vedic theories.

Book The Nineteenth century Spanish Story

Download or read book The Nineteenth century Spanish Story written by Lou Charnon-Deutsch and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Llorona s Children

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  • Author : Luis D. León
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 0520935381
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book La Llorona s Children written by Luis D. León and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis D. León's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. León theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas and practices developed in the ancient Mesoamerican world. León proposes what he calls a borderlands reading of La Virgen de Guadalupe as a transgressive, border-crossing goddess in her own right, a mestiza deity who displaces Jesus and God for believers on both sides of the border. His energetic discussion of curanderismo shows how this indigenous religious practice links cognition and sensation in a fresh and powerful technology of the body—one where sensual, erotic, and sexualized ways of knowing emphasize personal and communal healing. La Llorona’s Children ends with a fascinating study of the rich and complex world of Chicano/a Pentecostalism in Los Angeles, a tradition that León maintains allows Chicano men to reimagine their bodies into a unified social body through ritual performance. Throughout the narrative, the connections among sacred spaces, saints, healers, writers, ideas, and movements are woven with skill, inspiration, and insight.

Book Magic Moments

Download or read book Magic Moments written by Olga Loya and published by august house. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual collection in English and Spanish of folklore from Latin America, including Mayan and Aztec versions of the creation of the world.

Book Feminism  Nation and Myth

Download or read book Feminism Nation and Myth written by Rolando Romero and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism, Nation and Myth explores the scholarship of La Malinche, the indigenous woman who is said to have led Cortés and his troops to the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. The figure of La Malinche has generated intense debate among literature and cultural studies scholars. Drawing from the humanities and the social sciences, feminist studies, queer studies, Chicana/o studies, and Latina/o studies, critics and theorists in this volume analyze the interaction and interdependence of race, class, and gender. Studies of La Malinche demand that scholars disassemble and reconstruct concepts of nation, community, agency, subjectivity, and social activism. This volume originated in the 1999 "U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on la Malinche" conference that brought together scholars from across the nation. Filmmaker Dan Banda interviewed many of the presenters for his documentary, Indigenous Always: The Legend of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico. Contributors include Alfred Arteaga, Antonia Castañeda, Debra Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Deena González, María Herrera Sobek, Guisela Latorre, Luis Leal, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Amanda Nolacea Harris, Rolando J. Romero, and Tere Romo. These academic essays are complemented by the creative work of Alicia Gaspar de Alba and José Emilio Pacheco, both of whom evoke the figure of La Malinche in their work.

Book Fleshing the Spirit

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  • Author : Elisa Facio
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2014-04-10
  • ISBN : 0816598916
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Fleshing the Spirit written by Elisa Facio and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. Examining the complex and dynamic connections among these concepts, the writers emphasize the value of “flesh and blood experience” as a site of knowledge. They argue that spirituality—something quite different from institutional religious practice—can heal the mind/body split and set the stage for social change. Spirituality, they argue, is a necessary component of an alternative political agenda focused on equitable social and ecological change. The anthology incorporates different genres of writing—such as poetry, testimonials, critical essays, and historical analysis—and stimulates the reader to engage spirituality in a critical, personal, and creative way. This interdisciplinary work is the first that attempts to theorize the radical interconnection between women of color, spirituality, and social activism. Before transformative political work can be done, the authors say in multiple ways, we must recognize that our spiritual need is a desire to more fully understand our relations with others. Conflict experienced on many levels sometimes severs those relations, separating us from others along racial, class, gender, sexual, national, or other socially constructed lines. Fleshing the Spirit offers a spiritual journey of healing, health, and human revolution. The book’s open invitation to engage in critical dialogue and social activism—with the spirit and spirituality at the forefront—illuminates the way to social change and the ability to live in harmony with life’s universal energies. Contributors Volume Editors Elisa Facio Irene Lara Chapter Authors Angelita Borbón Norma E. Cantú Berenice Dimas C. Alejandra Elenes Alicia Enciso Litschi Oliva M. Espín Maria Figueroa Patrisia Gonzales Inés Hernández- Avila Rosa María Hernández Juárez Cinthya Martinez Lara Medina Felicia Montes Sarahi Nuñez- Mejia Laura E. Pérez Brenda Sendejo Inés Talamantez Michelle Téllez Beatriz Villegas

Book Carajicomedia

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  • Author : Frank Domínguez
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1855662892
  • Pages : 611 pages

Download or read book Carajicomedia written by Frank Domínguez and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina.

Book Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia

Download or read book Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia written by María Cristina Quintero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baroque Spanish stage is populated with virile queens and feminized kings. This study examines the diverse ways in which seventeenth-century comedias engage with the discourse of power and rulership and how it relates to gender. A privileged place for ideological negotiation, the comedia provided negative and positive reflections of kingship at a time when there was a perceived crisis of monarchical authority in the Habsburg court. Author María Cristina Quintero explores how playwrights such as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Antonio Coello, and Francisco Bances Candamo--taking inspiration from legend, myth, and history--repeatedly staged fantasies of feminine rule, at a time when there was a concerted effort to contain women's visibility and agency in the public sphere. The comedia's preoccupation with kingship together with its obsession with the representation of women (and women's bodies) renders the question of royal subjectivity inseparable from issues surrounding masculinity and femininity. Taking into account theories of performance and performativity within a historical context, this study investigates how the themes, imagery, and language in plays by Calderón and his contemporaries reveal a richly paradoxical presentation of gendered monarchical power.

Book La Medalla Celta 10  Life is a Story   story one

Download or read book La Medalla Celta 10 Life is a Story story one written by Monika Spiess and published by BOD GmbH DE. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todo ser mortal e inmortal tiene un punto débil cuya debilidad podría ser la causa de su derrota. Todo era una cuestión del destino cual tiene destinado una profecía para ese guerrero cuyo corazón está rodeado por la benevolencia de un alma pura cual está siendo tan libre como las aves cuales vuelan alto en el cielo y cuyas aves podían bajar para buscar cobijo en su nido. Ese guerrero podría liberarse de las cadenas del mal que lo ataban para romper esas cadenas las cuales lo hubieran podido tener prisionero de los seres más malignos que el hombre había visto hasta el momento, pero no. Ahora el hombre está en plena libertad y fue ganando en la batalla en la cual triunfó hasta el momento. Mas sin embargo podía haber muerto ese hombre ante el más reciente desafío, pero no. Así no fue porque el destino tenía algo muy distinto preparado para ese hombre cual es grandioso no ante su propia fuerza de voluntad sino ante su corazon puro cual es igual de puro que el corazón de una paloma blanca.

Book Latin American Science Fiction Writers

Download or read book Latin American Science Fiction Writers written by Darrell B. Lockhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers are unaware of the vast universe of Latin American science fiction, which has its roots in the 18th century and has flourished to the present day. Because science fiction is part of Latin American popular culture, it reflects cultural and social concerns and comments on contemporary society. While there is a growing body of criticism on Latin American science fiction, most studies treat only a single author or work. This reference offers a broad overview of Latin American science fiction. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 70 Latin American science fiction writers. While some of these are canonical figures, others have been largely neglected. Since much of science fiction has been written by women, many women writers are profiled. Each entry is prepared by an expert contributor and includes a short biography, a discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.

Book Writing and the Revolution

Download or read book Writing and the Revolution written by Katie Brown and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s literary isolation.