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Leaving Tabasco

Author : Carmen Boullosa
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846025
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Tabasco written by Carmen Boullosa and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman encounters strange events in her Mexican hometown in this novel by an author who “immerses us...in her wickedly funny and imaginative world” (Latina). Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming of age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. In Agustini it is not unusual to see your grandmother float above the bed when she sleeps, or to purchase torrential rains at a traveling fair, or to watch your family’s elderly serving woman develop stigmata, then disappear completely, to be canonized as a local saint. But as Delmira becomes a woman, she will set out on a search for her missing father, and must make a choice that could mean leaving her home forever, in a tale filled with both depth and delightful mystery that poses questions about just how real the real world is. “To flee Agustini is to leave not just a town but the viscerally primal dreamscape it represents.”— The New York Times Book Review “Vibrant...Each chapter is an adventure.”—The Boston Globe “We happily share with [Delmira] her life, including the infinitely charming town she inhabits [and] her grandmother’s fantastic imagination.”—The Washington Post Book World

A Leaf and a Rose (A Paris-Munich Romance—Novelette)

Author : Dennis L. Siluk Ed.D.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 144019761X
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Leaf and a Rose (A Paris-Munich Romance—Novelette) written by Dennis L. Siluk Ed.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...you have been designated Godfather of the...Editing Center of the National Newspaper of Peru (“The Voice of the People... is the Voice of God”) This is a respectable designation and is in merit to your fine virtues and profession of service that you have shown throughout your exemplary life that everybody appreciates, admires, and exalts. La Voz del Pueblo, Es la Voz de Dios Nos es grato y honroso dirigirnos a usted para expresarle nuestros cordiales saludos y comunicarle que ha sido designado padrino del local y redacción del periódico nacional de pronta circulación.... Tal designación honrosa es en mérito a sus virtudes acrisoladas y vocación de servicio que ha dado muestras a través de su vida ejemplar que todos valoran, admiran y exaltan. Conocedores de su fina sensibilidad no dudamos que el presente tendrá la confirmación y acogida deseada

The Yucatan-From Prehistoric Times to the Great Maya Revolt

Author : Douglas T. Peck
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462821014
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Yucatan-From Prehistoric Times to the Great Maya Revolt written by Douglas T. Peck and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-07-29 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces an innovative and verified pattern of Maya history that follows the origin of the Olmec culture in Tabasco through its melding into and becoming the Chontal Maya/Itza of the Yucatan. The Yucatan has been the focal point and geographical crossroad of profound cultural, ethnological, and sociological change and development in Mesoamerica from ancient times to the present. This far-reaching and historically significant acculturation was brought about by two widely separated epic migrations and military conquests by foreign peoples bringing radically new, innovative, and advanced culture to the area. The first of these was the migration and military conquest by the Olmec/Chontal Maya/Itza from Tabasco bringing their written language, mathematics, architectural expertise, and religion into northern and central Yucatan. This golden age of Maya civilization, centered in the Yucatan, lasted for a millennium during which the advanced Maya culture flowered and spread south into Honduras and Guatemala and west into the highlands of Mexico. In like manner, the second migration and military conquest of the Yucatan by Spanish conquistadors also brought new and advanced cultural norms to the area. The history of the origin, development, and impact of these two momentous events constitutes the thrust of this book and is contrary to and challenges much of the currently accepted historiography related to the subject. Contrary to current consensus the book shows that the seafaring and mercantile oriented Chontal Maya/Itza from Yucatan were a populous worldly element of the Maya civilization who traveled and spread their cultural influence not only throughout continental Mesoamerica, but ventured across the seas to the islands of the Caribbean and to the shores of Southwest Florida in the territory of the Calusa Indians. Consistent with this accomplishment, they had developed naval engineering, Metallurgy, tool design, woodworking, and ship building capabilities that enabled them to construct the large composite seaworthy vessels (not just log canoes) required. And from their expertise in mathematics and astronomy they developed a sophisticated method of celestial navigation for their overseas voyages a millennium before celestial navigation was developed in Europe.

Las hijas de Juan

Author : Josie Méndez-Negrete
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388391
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Las hijas de Juan written by Josie Méndez-Negrete and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in the fields of south Texas. Returning home to Mexico, his pockets full of dollars, he spent evenings drinking and womanizing. When Méndez-Negrete was eleven, her father moved the family to the United States, where they eventually settled in California’s Santa Clara Valley. There her father began molesting his daughters, viciously beating them and their mother. Within the impoverished immigrant family, the abuse continued for years, until a family friend brought it to the attention of child welfare authorities. Méndez-Negrete’s father was tried, convicted, and imprisoned. Las hijas de Juan is told chronologically, from the time Méndez-Negrete was a child until she was a young adult trying, along with the rest of her family, to come to terms with her father’s brutal legacy. It is a harrowing story of abuse and shame compounded by cultural and linguistic isolation and a system of patriarchy that devalues the experiences of women and girls. At the same time, Las hijas de Juan is an inspiring tale, filled with strong women and hard-won solace found in traditional Mexican cooking, songs, and storytelling.

Unbecoming Female Monsters

Author : Cristina Santos
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149852964X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Unbecoming Female Monsters written by Cristina Santos and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. This book examines the female sexual maturation cycle and the various archetypes of female monsters associated with each stage of sexual development as seen in literature, art, film, television, and popular culture. Recommended for scholars of Latin American studies, literature, cultural studies, women and gender studies, popular culture, and film studies.

Contemporary World Fiction

Author : Juris Dilevko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598849093
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.

Bomb

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Bomb written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Young Folk's History of Mexico

Author : Frederick Albion Ober
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Folk's History of Mexico written by Frederick Albion Ober and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cortes: Or, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico

Author : George Cubitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Cortes: Or, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico written by George Cubitt and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Young Folks' History of Mexico

Author : Frederick Albion Ober
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385352665
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Young Folks' History of Mexico written by Frederick Albion Ober and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Foreign Commerce Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Commerce Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cortes: or, the Discovery and conquest of Mexico

Author : George CUBITT (Wesleyan Minister.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Cortes: or, the Discovery and conquest of Mexico written by George CUBITT (Wesleyan Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The River People in Flood Time

Author : Terry Rugeley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804793123
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The River People in Flood Time written by Terry Rugeley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River People in Flood Time tells the astonishing story of how the people of nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico, overcame impossible odds to expel foreign interventions. Tabascans resisted control by Mexico City, overcame the grip of a Cuban adventurer who seized the region for two years, turned back the United States Navy, and defeated the French Intervention of the early 1860s, thus remaining free territory while the rest of the nation struggled for four painful years under the imposed monarchy of Maximilian. With colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches, this deeply researched and masterfully written history reconstructs the lives and culture of the Tabascans, as well as their pre-Columbian and colonial past. Rugeley reveals how over the centuries, one colorful character after another sets foot on the Tabascan stage, only to be undone by climate, disease, and more than anything else, tenacious Tabascan resistance. Virtually the only English-language study of this little-known province, River People in Flood Time explores the ways in which geography, climate, and social relationships contributed to an extraordinarily successful defense against unwelcome meddling from the outside world. River People in Flood Time demonstrates the complex relationship between imperial forces in relation to remote parts of Latin America, and the way that resistance to external pressure helped mold the thoughts, attitudes, and actions of those remote peoples. Nineteenth-century Mexico was more a land of localities than a unified nation, and Rugeley's narrative paints an indelible portrait of one of its least known and most unique provinces.

Cortes

Author : Fred Hovey Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Cortes written by Fred Hovey Allen and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Indian Conquistadors

Author : Laura E. Matthew
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182695
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Indian Conquistadors written by Laura E. Matthew and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. This book takes into account the role of native peoples as active agents in the Conquest through a review of new sources and more careful analysis of known but under-studied materials that demonstrate the overwhelming importance of native allies in both conquest and colonial control. In Indian Conquistadors, leading scholars offer the most comprehensive look to date at native participation in the conquest of Mesoamerica. The contributors examine pictorial, archaeological, and documentary evidence spanning three centuries, including little-known eyewitness accounts from both Spanish and native documents, paintings (lienzos) and maps (mapas) from the colonial period, and a new assessment of imperialism in the region before the Spanish arrival. This new research shows that the Tlaxcalans, the most famous allies of the Spanish, were far from alone. Not only did native lords throughout Mesoamerica supply arms, troops, and tactical guidance, but tens of thousands of warriors—Nahuas, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Mayas, and others—spread throughout the region to participate with the Spanish in a common cause. By offering a more balanced account of this dramatic period, this book calls into question traditional narratives that emphasize indigenous peoples’ roles as auxiliaries rather than as conquistadors in their own right. Enhanced with twelve maps and more than forty illustrations, Indian Conquistadors opens a vital new line of research and challenges our understanding of this important era.

Mexican Messiah

Author : George W. Grayson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047294
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Messiah written by George W. Grayson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of Latin American firebrands who champion the cause of the impoverished and rail against the evils of neoliberalism and Yankee imperialism--Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Néstor Kirchner in Argentina, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico--has changed the landscape of the Americas in dramatic ways. This is the first biography to appear in English about one of these charismatic figures, who is known in his country by his adopted nickname of "Little Ray of Hope." The book follows López Obrador's life from his early years in the flyspecked state of Tabasco, his university studies, and the years that he lived among the impoverished Chontal Indians. Even as he showed an increasingly messianic élan to uplift the downtrodden, he confronted the muscular Institutional Revolutionary Party in running twice for governor of his home state and helping found the leftist-nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). As the PRD's national president, he escalated his political and ideological warfare against his former president, Carlos Salinas, and other "conspirators" determined to link Mexico to the global economy at the expense of the poor. His strident advocacy of the "have-nots" lifted López Obrador to the mayorship of Mexico City, which he rechristened the "City of Hope." Its ubiquitous crime, traffic, pollution, and housing problems have made the capital a tomb for most politicians. Not for López Obrador. Through splashy public works, monthly stipends to senior citizens, huge marches, and a dawn-to-dusk work schedule, he converted the position into a trampoline to the presidency. Although he lost the official count by an eyelash, the hard-charging Tabascan cried fraud, took the oath as the nation's "legitimate president," and barnstormed the country, excoriating the "fascist" policies of President Felipe Calderón and preparing to redeem the destitute in the 2012 presidential contest. Grayson views López Obrador as quite different from populists like Chávez, Morales, and Kirchner and argues that he is a "secular messiah, who lives humbly, honors prophets, gathers apostles, declares himself indestructible, relishes playing the role of victim, and preaches a doctrine of salvation by returning to the values of the 1917 Constitution-- fairness for workers, Indians' rights, fervent nationalism, and anti-imperialism."

forum for inter-american research Vol 2

Author : Wilfried Raussert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3946507786
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book forum for inter-american research Vol 2 written by Wilfried Raussert and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.