Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Letras Peninsulares
Author: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Truck
Author: Lucille ColandroPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338851977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A hysterical installment of the beloved Old Lady series! There was an old lady who swallowed a truck. I don't know why she swallowed a truck but it didn't get stuck. You won't believe why the Old Lady swallowed a truck, a tire, a chain, some wood, some metal, some tools, and some screws! Filled with hilarious illustrations and fun rhyming text, this volume is sure to be a hit with young readers!
The Last Masquerade
Author: Antonio Orlando RodriguezPublisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060586331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Journeying to Havana during the Roaring 1920s in the hopes of interviewing a legendary actress, two wealthy young men find themselves drawn into Cuba's exotic world of secret police, brothels, violent outbreaks, masquerades, and drum celebrations. By the author of Striptease. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Calila
Author: Joan L. BrownPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684483050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study of the later novels of Spain's most honored contemporary woman writer. Brown shares unpublished letters and conversations with Carmen Martín Gaite--a dear friend whom she called Calila--to elucidate her last six novels, all of which explore themes that are highly relevant today.
Caught Between the Lines
Author: Carlos RiobóPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496213866
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century trope of "civilization versus barbary," which was intended to criticize the social and ethnic divisions within Argentina in order to create a homogenous society, Carlos Riobó traces the various versions of colonial captivity legends. He argues convincingly that the historical conditions of the colonial period created an ethnic hybridity--a mestizo or culturally mixed identity--that went against the state compulsion for a racially pure identity. This mestizaje was signified not only in Argentina's literature but also in its art, and Riobó thus analyzes colonial paintings as well as texts. Caught between the Lines focuses on borders and mestizaje (both biological and cultural) as they relate to captives: specifically, how captives have been used to create a national image of Argentina that relies on a logic of separation to justify concepts of national purity and to deny transculturation.
Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Pam Muñoz RyanPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545532329
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive author treatment and new cover art by Raul Colon.Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as "nobody special." But according to Gram, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. And with Gram and her little brother, Owen, Naomi's life at Avocado Acres Trailer Rancho in California is happy and peaceful...until their mother reappears after seven years of being gone, stirring up all sorts of questions and challenging Naomi to discover and proclaim who she really is.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Author: Margarete (Navarra, Königin)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Riding Freedom
Author: Pam Muñoz RyanPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545360293
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment.In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventure with Charlotte Parkhurst as she first finds work as a stable hand, becomes a famous stage-coach driver (performing brave feats and outwitting bandits), finds love as a woman but later resumes her identity as a man after the loss of a baby and the tragic death of her husband, and ultimately settles out west on the farm she'd dreamed of having since childhood. It wasn't until after her death that anyone discovered she was a woman.