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Publication Date: November 1, 1999| Series: Discoveries Fiction. A vibrant chronicle of an astounding woman. After escaping death at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition, Maria de Estrada struggles to the New World where she fights alongside Cortez during Spain's colonization of Mexico. With the conquest completed, Maria becomes a fierce defender of the conquered indigenous peoples. Although Maria de Estrada has been included in chronicles of her period, no definitive or complete information exists about who she was. This fictionalized biography fills that gap and vividly brings to life one ...
 |  | The Maldonado miracle
Publication Date: 1973Twelve-year-old Jose Maldonado used to dream of becoming a fine artist. But this son of a poor Mexican farmer now focuses on survival, not art. After Jose's mother died, his father left to work in the United States, leaving Jose on his own in Mexico. When it's time for father and son to reunite, things go terribly wrong. Jose's attempt to cross the border is harrowing, and his stay at a migrant worker camp turns into a nightmare, forcing him to flee for his life. Hiding out in a church seems a wise thing to do--until the blood dripping from his wounded shoulder lands on...
|  | A long time coming (Mayflower book)
Publication Date: 1966| Series: Mayflower book Vacationing in a small midwestern town, eighteen-year-old Christie is drawn into the conflict between the townspeople and Mexican American migrant workers employed by her father's company. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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|  | The Loves of Ricardo
Publication Date: May 9, 1997poetry, posthumous book by poesia chicana founder...
|  | Maria, Mota, and the Grandmother
Publication Date: December 1, 1992In 1883, in the territory of New Mexico, ten-year-old Maria goes to live with her grandmother and learns about the traditions of her family and the Spanish American people. Soon a kitten arrives and Maria comes to lover her new world in this family story with photographic re-creations by Jan Young. ...
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|  | Leyenda del Cadejo (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 15, 2012En el primer párrafo se nos presenta al protagonista, un novato en un hermoso convento que, con el tiempo, más tarde se convertirá en Madre Elvira de San Francisco. Este personaje cambios horarios varios nombres en la historia. [39] Los siguientes párrafos están dedicados a describir el ambiente del convento en que se abraza, sutilmente moldeada por su punto de vista emocional. [40] Ella está plagada por la trenza, ya que incita a la excitación física de los hombres. Con el tiempo se convierte mortificado, por lo tan...
| | Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pas por sus labios
Publication Date: September 1983Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's coming-of-age as a Chicana and a lesbian at a time when the political merging of those two identities was severely censured.Drawing on the Mexican legacy of Malinche, the symbolic mother of the first mestizo peoples, Moraga examines the collective sexual and ...
|  | Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination: Literature of the Borderlands (Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues)
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0815332467 | ISBN-13: 978-0815332466| Edition: Revised This critical analysis examines a wide range of contemporary Latino novels and short stories written in English by mainland Puerto Ricans, Chicano/as, and Cuban Americans. Using dose readings of recent fiction, the work argues that modernist narrative techniques, stemming from both European and Latin American sources (from both Faulkner and Garcia Marquez), contribute to the Latino writer's depictions of cultural borderlands and dualities. Emphasizing the humor and stylistic subtleties of ...
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