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Author: Larry Siems Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 9780816515523 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
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In the continuing U.S. debate over illegal immigration, a human face has rarely been shown. The topic has been presented as a monolithic abstraction, a creation of statistics, political rhetoric, and fear. This collection of letters between undocumented immigrants in California and their families back home reveals the other side of the story. Published for the first time in paperback, Between the Lines reveals the often poignant human drama currently being played out along the U.S.-Mexico border. The letters, presented in Spanish and English, express powerful feelings of hope, uncertainty, and fear among the undocumented travelers as they arrive in the United States and seek work, social support and legal status. The letters from their families in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador return feelings of hope, love, and support. Translator/editor Siems provides a powerful and lyrical introductory essay that sets the stage for the letters that follow.
Author: Larry Siems Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 9780816515523 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
In the continuing U.S. debate over illegal immigration, a human face has rarely been shown. The topic has been presented as a monolithic abstraction, a creation of statistics, political rhetoric, and fear. This collection of letters between undocumented immigrants in California and their families back home reveals the other side of the story. Published for the first time in paperback, Between the Lines reveals the often poignant human drama currently being played out along the U.S.-Mexico border. The letters, presented in Spanish and English, express powerful feelings of hope, uncertainty, and fear among the undocumented travelers as they arrive in the United States and seek work, social support and legal status. The letters from their families in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador return feelings of hope, love, and support. Translator/editor Siems provides a powerful and lyrical introductory essay that sets the stage for the letters that follow.
Author: Alan West-Durán Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780238606 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
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As American-Cuban relations begin to warm, tourists are rushing to discover the throwback tropical paradise just eighty miles off of the American coast. But even as diplomatic relations are changing and the country opens up to the Western world, Cuba remains a rare and fascinating place. Cuba: A Cultural History tells the story of Cuba’s history through an exploration of its rich and vibrant culture. Rather than offer a timeline of Cuban history or a traditional genre-by-genre history of Cuban culture, Alan West-Durán invites readers to enter Cuban history from the perspective of the island’s uniquely creative cultural forms. He traces the restless island as it ebbs and flows with the power, beauty, and longings of its culture and history. In a world where revolutionary socialism is an almost quaint reminder of the decades-old Cold War, the island nation remains one of the few on the planet guided by a Communist party, still committed to fighting imperialism, opposed to the injustices of globalization, and wedded to the dream of one day building a classless society, albeit in a distant future. But as this book shows, Cuba is more than a struggling socialist country—it is a nation with a complex and turbulent history and a rich and varied culture.
Author: Nataša Durovicová Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135869979 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 681
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SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images.
Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 416
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In contrast to traditional criticism which tends to examine World counterparts, the essays in this collection identify a distinctive pan-American consciousness (and literary idiom), engaging not only the major North American and Spanish American writers, but also such literatures as the Chicano, African-American, Brazilian, and Quebecois. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: H. Ctor Quevedo Abarz a. Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 161764787X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 243
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Destacar mi ángel de la guarda fue mi inspiración. El escrito de lo que siento como un "Privilegiado" El puente es una idea de que ha pasado mucha agua bajo el, para llegar a escribir el fruto de una vocación la de curtidor. Con mi barba más blanca como muestra la foto, además con mi boina favorita, que disimula el poco cabello que me queda, sin ser acomplejado. Héctor Quevedo Abarzúa.
Author: Ronald Schwartz Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476621748 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 305
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In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexico's first true sound film. In it he established one of the foremost genres of Latin American cinema--the popular melodrama--which continues to this day. Latin American filmmakers came to the fore in the fifties and sixties and, as 1992's Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) showed, Latin American films continue to be a major part of the international film scene. In this work over 300 of the most significant films from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and other Latin American countries are covered. Each entry includes the English title, director, year of release, running time, language, country and a detailed plot synopsis. Notes about the production and the filmmakers are also provided for many entries.
Author: Virgil Suárez Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807127087 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 82
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Banyan is a sequence of poems about a father-son relationship that deals not only with fatherhood and childhood, but also with exile, memory, and assimilation. Using the metaphor of the tree of its title, whose tendril-like roots grow out from the thick branches of the tree and downward where they burrow deep and over years become themselves stabilizing trunks, Banyan examines a son's relationship to his father, his native Cuba, and his adopted home in the US - the son always represented by the burrowing roots, and the father and homelands all represented by the sturdy grown trunks. Simply, put, Banyan is a testament to the nature of immigration and the search of an individual's sense of place and family.
Author: Alideliza Acevedo Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1463333161 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 103
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El talento de Alideliza es honesto y real, busca encontrarse con ella misma y al leerla, ves el reflejo de una gran escritora., br/> Cuando la conocí a los 16 años, vi un corazón lleno de amor y de canciones hermosas y desde ese momento fui y soy su admirador y amigo. Sus letras llenas de pasión y dulzura te llevarán por mundos muy nuevos, historias muy distintas y creativas Definitivamente, una gran joven escritora. Rodolfo "Nava" Barrera
Author: Mark Cholij Publisher: Nelson Thornes ISBN: 9780748723768 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 260
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Grammatical structures are introduced by means of dialogues, setting the language in an everyday context. Grammatical rules are explained clearly and methodically in English and are then practised in a series of exercises in which the language is kept relatively simple. Practice in Spanish Grammar is both a practical workbook and a useful work of reference, providing help in dealing with individual difficulties and enabling students to check for themselves how a particular structure works.
Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292735995 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 255
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An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author’s own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the “1.5 Generation” (Cubans who came to the United States as children or teens) have lived “life on the hyphen”—neither fully Cuban nor fully American, but a fertile hybrid of both. Offering an in-depth look at Cuban-Americans who have become icons of popular and literary culture—including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, musician Pérez Prado, and crossover pop star Gloria Estefan, as well as poets José Kozer and Orlando González Esteva, performers Willy Chirino and Carlos Oliva, painter Humberto Calzada, and others—Gustavo Pérez Firmat chronicles what it means to be Cuban in America. The first edition of Life on the Hyphen won the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award and received honorable mentions for the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.
Author: Larry Siems
Author: Larry Siems
Author: Alan West-Durán
Author: Nataša Durovicová
Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Author: H. Ctor Quevedo Abarz a.
Author: Ronald Schwartz
Author: Virgil Suárez
Author: Alideliza Acevedo
Author: Mark Cholij
Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat