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The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories

Author : Joe Frank
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories written by Joe Frank and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Frank has been called "the apostle of radio noir." In this first collection of stories, he takes us on an obsessive, violent, and sexual odyssey in which individual lives become emblematic of a larger spiritual crisis. He also captures on paper the same eerie speculation and humor he delivers in his late-night monologues on National Public Radio." "We meet characters who have jobs, not careers, who lead lives of half-steps, of rootlessness without cause. Frank's narratives result in a kaleidoscopic sense of time, wherein entire lives pass with a few brief moments of inchoate realization. Moments of comic lunacy blend with scenes of great poignancy and terror." "In the novella "Night," the protagonist wanders through a series of odd jobs, through prison, to Vietnam, to become the right-hand man of a television evangelist, and without any more purpose approaches his own death. In "Fat Man," a college student travels across the country stealing brownies from roadside Howard Johnsons and then spends the next year returning them. "Date" encapsulates a woman's entire life in her boyfriend's suggestions for her personal ad. "The Decline of the Spengler" is a wildly inventive radio play in which the narrative of a funeral is melded with the dreams of a playwright slowly slipping into madness." "In their desperation, the characters in Joe Frank's world, such as the "Fat Man," can only dream of meaningfulness: "You know, when I think about myself and the life I've led, I feel self-loathing, shame, and disgust. I'm a waste and a failure. But when I imagine myself as a character in a novel ... well, I think I'm pretty interesting, kind of off-beat, intriguing, entertaining."" "For years, Joe Frank's broadcasts have invited millions of listeners to the strange world of his mesmerizing stories. In this, his first book, Frank effortlessly segues to the printed page and imparts a new resonance to his narrative inventions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A Matter of Pride and Other Stories

Author : Nicholasa Mohr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Pride and Other Stories written by Nicholasa Mohr and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of stories featuring Hispanic protagonists. In one story, a New York woman on holiday in Puerto Rico is given a lesson in being a good wife by tolerating a mistress, another story chronicles the effect on a family of a son who sells drugs.

The Taste of Sugar

Author : Marisel Vera
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1631499041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Taste of Sugar written by Marisel Vera and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriquenos, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii—another US territory—where they are confronted by the hollowness of America’s promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera’s The Taste of Sugar is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home.

Short Story Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Silent Dancing

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920307
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Silent Dancing written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Dancing is a personal narrative made up of Judith Ortiz CoferÍs recollections of the bilingual-bicultural childhood which forged her personality as a writer and artist. The daughter of a Navy man, Ortiz Cofer was born in Puerto Rico and spent her childhood shuttling between the small island of her birth and New Jersey. In fluid, clear, incisive prose, as well as in the poems she includes to highlight the major themes, Ortiz Cofer has added an important chapter to autobiography, Hispanic American Creativity and womenÍs literature. Silent Dancing has been awarded the 1991 PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction and has been selected for The New York Public LibraryÍs 1991 Best Books for the Teen Age.

African Passions and Other Stories

Author : Beatriz Rivera
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920574
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book African Passions and Other Stories written by Beatriz Rivera and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Passions, Beatriz RiveraÍs first collection of stories, is peopled by Hispanic women in the thrall of love of varying sorts, but always of overwhelming intensity. Passion, obsession, raucous humor, and satire are in store for the reader of this tour-de-force examination of Latina womanhood. A series of strong-minded women relentlessly pursue love and success as they move in and out of the reality of the New Jersey Hispanic barrio that bonds them: a frustrated professional woman who unsuccessfully strives for a wedding ring from her mamaÍs-boy lover, a recent college graduate applies for dead-end jobs while pursuing a traditional macho lover, an Italian-Puerto Rican princess gets caught up in a vicious cycle of destructive relationships, and a young Cuban matron wrecks husband, children, and her own well-being as she seeks the nirvana of material wealth and status.

Historias de Puerto Rico

Author : Robert L. Muckley
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780844204024
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Historias de Puerto Rico written by Robert L. Muckley and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of 16 legends illustrates the diverse history of Puerto Rico, for intermediate level learners of Spanish. The stories are presented here with the English translation in parallel'

American Empire and the Politics of Meaning

Author : Julian Go
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389320
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book American Empire and the Politics of Meaning written by Julian Go and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained ultimate control for themselves, the Americans let the elite vote, hold local office, and formulate legislation in national assemblies. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power. The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used “culture” as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans’ ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable “culture clashes,” Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America’s earliest overseas empire.

Cosecha and Other Stories

Author : Aurora Levins Morales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983683117
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Cosecha and Other Stories written by Aurora Levins Morales and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986, Getting Home Alive broke new ground by its content, its form, and the identities of its authors, a New York Puerto Rican mother and her island born daughter, both feminists and radicals. Cosecha and Other Stories is the long-awaited sequel, fourteen short stories, factual and fictional, full of gardens and kitchens, love, loss, and revelation.

An Island Like You

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings.

When I Was Puerto Rican

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786736860
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.

The Eighth Continent and Other Stories

Author : Alba N. Ambert
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611921281
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Eighth Continent and Other Stories written by Alba N. Ambert and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful and enriching collection of nine stories explores and illuminates the fusion of intimate and public dramas. Focusing on the persistence of personal memory amid political and historical upheaval, the tales in The Eighth Continent portray the impact of broad political and historical events on individual lives, success in the face of low expectations and the humor that redeems everyday struggles. In rich evocative language, award winning author Alba Ambert invokes strong characters and demonstrates the cool detachment of modern life. Populating the stories are engrossing individuals: underground revolutionaries faced with fear of betrayal; a woman who looks back at a massacre she witnessed as a child and the wrenching consequences of this event on her life; a linguist who makes a dangerous trip to a tropical island and finds a language on the verge of extinction; and a young woman in a mental hospital who challenges our perception of truth and lies, sanity and insanity.

The Song of El Coquí and Other Tales of Puerto Rico

Author : Nicholasa Mohr
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Song of El Coquí and Other Tales of Puerto Rico written by Nicholasa Mohr and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three folktales which reflect the diverse heritage within the Puerto Rican culture.

Mundo Cruel

Author : Luis Negron
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609804198
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Mundo Cruel written by Luis Negron and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a decidedly cruel world.

Latina Legacies

Author : Vicki L. Ruiz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288450
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Latina Legacies written by Vicki L. Ruiz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.

Coconuts & Collards

Author : Von Diaz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813056654
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Coconuts & Collards written by Von Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When her family moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Von Diaz traded plantains, roast pork, and malta for grits, fried chicken, and sweet tea. Brimming with humor and nostalgia, Coconuts and Collards is a recipe-packed memoir of growing up Latina in the Deep South. Inspired by her grandmother's 1962 copy of Cocina Criolla--the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Joy of Cooking--Coconuts and Collards celebrates traditional recipes while fusing them with Diaz's own family history and a contemporary Southern flair. Diaz discovers the connections between the food she grew up eating in Atlanta and the African and indigenous influences in so many Puerto Rican dishes. With stunning photographs that showcase the geographic diversity of the island and the vibrant ingredients that make up Puerto Rican cuisine, this cookbook is a moving story about discovering our roots through the foods that comfort us. It is about the foods that remind us of family and help us bridge childhood and adulthood, island and mainland, birthplace and adopted home."--[page 166]

The Eighth Continent and Other Stories

Author : Alba N. Ambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Eighth Continent and Other Stories written by Alba N. Ambert and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the persistence of personal memory amid political and historical upheaval, the tales in The Eighth Continent portray the impact of the broad political and historical events on individual lives, success in the face of low expectations and the humor that redeems everyday struggles.