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Book Synopsis Finding My Alegria by : Davina A. Ferreira
Download or read book Finding My Alegria written by Davina A. Ferreira and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding My Alegria is a beautiful coming-of-age poetic memoir where the author shares her journey, with raw honesty, about becoming a creative entrepreneur and a woman with all its twists and turns. This book will benefit several nonprofit organizations focused on educating young people about mental health and addiction healing through the arts.
Book Synopsis My Broken Language by : Quiara Alegría Hudes
Download or read book My Broken Language written by Quiara Alegría Hudes and published by One World. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, New York Public Library, BookPage, and BookRiot • “Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories—but first she’d have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She’d have to find her language. Weaving together Hudes’s love of music with the songs of her family, the lessons of North Philly with those of Yale, this is a multimythic dive into home, memory, and belonging—narrated by an obsessed girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty.
Download or read book Saudade written by Claribel Alegría and published by Curbstone Press Contemporary P. This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: Sorrow Claribel Alegria Sorrow is a remarkable collection of love poems which Alegria wrote for her recently deceased husband. The poems are not only a recollection of their past, but also meditations on the meaning of death and the pain of separation as well as reflections on their eventual reunion. Most of the poems are brief piercing lyrics which radiate strength and optimism.
Book Synopsis Bein' with You This Way by : W. Nikola-Lisa
Download or read book Bein' with You This Way written by W. Nikola-Lisa and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem about human differences and similarities, accompanied by paintings of an interracial group of children sharing a sunny day and the universal childhood joy of just being together.
Download or read book Dolor Y Alegría written by Sarah LeVine and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dolor y Alegría (Sorrow and Joy), fifteen mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca speak about the dramatic effects that urbanization and rapid social change have had on their lives. Sarah LeVine deftly combines these autobiographical vignettes with ethnographic material, survey findings, and her own observations. The result is a vivid picture of contrast and continuity. While many earlier publications have focused on the poor of Latin America who live at the margins of urban life, Dolor y Alegría explores the experiences of ordinary working and lower-middle class women, most of them transplants from villages and small towns to a densely populated city neighborhood. In their early years, many experienced family disruption, emotional deprivation, and economic hardship; but steadily increasing educational opportunities, improved health care, and easily available contraception have significantly altered how the younger women relate to their families and the larger society. Today's Mexican schoolgirl, LeVine shows, is encouraged to apply herself to her studies for her own benefit, and the longer she remains in school, the greater the self-confidence she will carry with her into the world of work and later into marriage and motherhood. Hard economic times have forced many married women into the workplace where their sense of personal efficacy is enhanced; at the same time, in the domestic sphere, their earnings allow them greater negotiating power with husbands and male relatives. Changes are not confined to the younger generation. Older women are enjoying better health and living longer; but with adult children either less able or willing to accept responsibility for aged parents than they were in the past, anxiety runs high and family relations are often strained. Dolor y Alegría takes a close look at the efforts of three generations of Mexican women to redefine themselves in both family and workplace; it shows that today's young woman has very different expectations of herself and others from those that her grandmother or even her mother had.
Download or read book Alegría written by Emi Wright and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alegría’s family struggles to keep afloat amid secrets as she develops narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder that disrupts her nights and dulls her days. In a fantastical world where dead grandmothers come to visit and witch doctors prescribe waking concoctions, young Alegría discovers the secrets behind her namesake and the imperfections within her family. When the wind blows and the rains come, will she be able to keep her family together?
Book Synopsis My Heart Fills With Happiness by : Monique Gray Smith
Download or read book My Heart Fills With Happiness written by Monique Gray Smith and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and—yes—happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures."--Publishers Weekly, starred review The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness to support the wellness of Indigenous children and families, and to encourage young children to reflect on what makes them happy.
Download or read book Find the Errors! written by Nancy Lobb and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how much teachers may talk about the importance of solid writing skills, nothing beats giving students the opportunity to make their own edits. Find the Errors! is a light-hearted approach to this age-old challenge. 37 passages contain short, humorous anecdotes, letters, crossword puzzles and more. But each passage is also riddled with errors! Now it's up to your students to go into those passages and identify and annotate the mistakes. They'll work on spelling, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and style. For middle school students, this is a very successful way to engage them, while giving them a palpable sense of accomplishment as they improve each passage. Extensive teacher support includes grammatical rules, answer keys, additional activities, and tests for easy assessment See also Find the Errors II
Download or read book Vedette written by Stephen Siciliano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to a Gothic social order, branded a haunter of men's dreams, Vedette is traumatized when her small town in the magical wetlands of southern Spain's Guadalquivir River is overrun by hashish-smoking anarchists promising free love and a life without sadness to those who would follow them. Entranced by their flamenco music, their philosophy of revenge, and the concrete ability to deliver political results, the young woman joins a movement destined to annihilation and becomes its sole survivor, burdened with the task of keeping its memory and project for a better world alive through conversations with their flamenco shadows. Transcending political viewpoints, Mr. Siciliano opens a new chapter in the understanding of the Spanish Civil War, opting for a literary interpretation that looks beyond right and wrong to more universal lessons only the passage of decades and the healing effects of time can reveal.
Book Synopsis Staging America by : Christopher Bigsby
Download or read book Staging America written by Christopher Bigsby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Many of the American playwrights who dominated the 20th century are no longer with us: Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein. A new generation, whose careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when the theatre itself, along with the society with which it engages, was changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America, Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning playwrights – including Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Young Jean Lee and Quiara Alllegría Hudes – whose backgrounds reflect the social, religious, sexual and national diversity of American society. Each chapter is devoted to a single playwright and provides an overview of their career, a description and critical evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception. Drawing on primary sources, including the playwrights' own commentaries and notes, and contemporary reviews, Christopher Bigsby enters into a dialogue with plays which are as various as the individuals who generated them. An essential read for theatre scholars and students, Staging America is a sharp and landmark study of the contemporary American playwright.
Book Synopsis Daphne's Dive by : Quiara Alegría Hudes
Download or read book Daphne's Dive written by Quiara Alegría Hudes and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tucked away corner of North Philly, six regulars gather at a neighborhood watering hole. Over twenty years, they turn their collective memories into a vivacious mythology. The tales they’d rather forget, however, keep sneaking up and tapping them on the shoulder. At Daphne’s Dive, an aloe plant, a girl’s sneaker, a stiff drink, and mounds of trash become talismanic treasures to a group of outsiders trying to be “in” together.
Book Synopsis Yemaya's Belly by : Quiara Alegría Hudes
Download or read book Yemaya's Belly written by Quiara Alegría Hudes and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A Cuban boy is born into a humble farming family, but after his first taste of cold Coca-Cola, he dreams of a world beyond his family's meager acre. Naively yearning to meet the President of America, the play follows his epic journey i
Book Synopsis Claribel Alegria and Central American Literature by : Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval
Download or read book Claribel Alegria and Central American Literature written by Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine the multifaceted work of the Central American author whom Latin American literary historians consider precursor of "cultural dialogism" in poetry and fiction. As poet, essayist, journalist, novelist, and writer of "quasi-testimonio," Alegría's multiple discourses transgress the boundaries between traditional and postmodern political theories and practices. Her work reveals an allegory of relation and negotiation between "intelligentsia" and subaltern peoples as well as the need for a more socially extensive literature, not exclusive of more elite "magical literatures." The essays in the fist section frame Alegría's discourses within sociohistorical, political, and literary contexts in order to illuminate the author's singular place in the literary and political history of Central America. The essays in the second section engage in a feminist dialogic in which the reader encounters various critical validations and valorizations of Alegría's many female voices. The third section involves the reader in the pursuit of extratextual or extraliterary resonances in Alegría's work.
Book Synopsis Water by the Spoonful by : Quiara Alegría Hudes
Download or read book Water by the Spoonful written by Quiara Alegría Hudes and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and communi
Book Synopsis Miss You Like Hell by : Quiara Alegría Hudes
Download or read book Miss You Like Hell written by Quiara Alegría Hudes and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a fresh take on the American road story, filled with people and ideas we rarely get to see onstage…It offers two seriously rich roles for women, each with important things worth singing about…Miss You Like Hell is a powerful example of what musicals do best: explore the unprotected border where individual needs and social issues intermix.” —Jesse Green, New York Times A troubled teenager and her estranged mother—an undocumented Mexican immigrant on the verge of deportation—embark on a road trip and strive to mend their frayed relationship along the way. Combined with the musical talent of Erin McKeown, Hudes artfully crafts a story of the barriers and the bonds of family, while also addressing the complexities of immigration in today’s America.
Book Synopsis Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico by : Malín Alegría
Download or read book Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico written by Malín Alegría and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Southern California high school senior Sofi Mendoza lies to her parents and crosses the border for a weekend party, she has no idea that she will get stuck in a Mexican village with family she has never met before, unable to return to the United States and the easy life she knew.
Download or read book Being Luis written by Luis Muñoz and published by Impress Books Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis Muqoz is one of the few survivors of torture under Pinochet's military regime. His autobiography is a story of love, life, death and survival, recounting Chilean history from the 1960s to the present. It charts his magical, but at times harsh childhood, his undercover activity as a left-wing activist, his arrest and torture by the military regime and his eventual exile to England. John McCarthy CBE praised Being Luis saying, "This is a wonderful and important book; tragic, funny, pathetic and brave, all the very best and worst of human nature."
