Fair Gentlemen of Belken County = Claros varones de Belken
National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement honoree Rolando Hinojosa returns to Klail City— in Belken County along the Texas-Mexico border— to chronicle the lives of its residents. There"s friendship, "which can all of a sudden pop up at any time, " and death, which happens just as frequently. The friendship between cousins Rafe Buenrostro and Jehú Malacara continues through war and peace. After returning from Korea, Rafe— like so many Mexican Americans— is advised to use the GI Bill to learn a trade, like building fishing boats. He and Jehú opt to attend the University...
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A Fighting Chance
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Angel spends every minute after school at the Packing Shed, working out with the Alisal Boxing Club. He dreams of becoming a champion so he can get his mother and five siblings out of their cramped one-bedroom apartment in one of Salinas" poorest barrios. But suddenly his life gets more complicated. The city is threatening to take the Packing Shed away from Coach, and without a place to train he won"t be able to avoid the gangbangers in his neighborhood. His childhood friend, Beto, has succumbed to the wiles of easy money and expensive cars, and Miguel Angel wonders if...
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Monsters, Zombies and Addicts
“I was scared of a thing that might have happened. In daytime I’m sure it / never did. At night, I don’t trust daylit memories or instincts. In nightmares, like / filmstrips, the feared thing occurs. ” In her second Poesía collection, monsters—real and imagined—chase Houston Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda through late nights when she can’t sleep. Ghosts routinely visit in the early morning hours, but in spite of her fears, she dares to believe that she has escaped the devils that once followed her. This collection of 62 narrative poems contains witty observations about the rituals of contemporary...
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The Milli Vanilli Condition
"Eduardo Espina afirma en esta colección de 13 ensayos que pocas veces en la historia el arte de la simulación ha gozado de tanta continuidad y ha llevado a tan pocas consecuencias como durante el periodo de transición entre el siglo XX y el comienzo del siguiente." Él lamenta la falsificación serial de eventos, como cuando el dúo pop alemán Milli Vanilli ganó un Grammy por canciones que, de hecho, no cantaron. Incluso ellos fueron seducidos por su propio engaño, negando inicialmente las acusaciones. Sin embargo, al final, el grupo fue despojado de su premio. El poeta uruguayo Espina reflexiona sobre las paradojas de la vida moderna en estos ensayos sobre una amplia variedad de temas, que incluyen la proliferación de banderas en su pequeña ciudad de Texas después del 11 de septiembre, asesinos en serie, nostalgia e incluso los Juegos Olímpicos.
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The Skull of Pancho Villa and Other Stories
Legend has it that Pancho Villa"s grave was robbed— and his head stolen— in 1926. A gringo is credited with the theft, but Gus Corral"s great-grandfather was there too. As often happens to Chicanos, his role was given short shrift. But the Corral Familia has taken care of the skull for as long as Gus can remember. It"s a jolt when "Panchito" is stolen from his sister"s house. It"s the only connection to the old-timers of the Familia, so Gus knows he will have to get to the bottom of the disappearance, even if it means tangling with thieves and thugs. A variety of characters— writers,...
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The vaquero in black and other mysterious folktales = El vaquero de negro y otras leyendas misteriosas
Master storyteller Alonso M. Perales spent many years working in San Antonio"s education system, achieving an outstanding record as a teacher and administrator. However, he was been better known to his Familia and friends as a golden repository of traditional lore, Texas history, jokes and songs he heard as a child and has repeated throughout his life to all those who would listen. He has perfected his art to the extent of being able to narrate wonderfully delicious stories in both the original Spanish and his own English translations. Now in his retirement, he has finally found the time to record...
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...y no se lo tragó la tierra = ...and the Earth did not devour him (3th ed.)
"I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You"re so good and yet you suffer so much, " a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera"s classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy can"t understand his parents" faith in a god that would impose such horrible suffering, poverty and injustice on innocent people. Adapted into the award-winning film . ....
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A Good Long Way
"Stop it. The two of you, stop it! You're father and son; you should love each other. " Roelito howls at his father and older brother as their heated argument turns into a pushing, shoving match. Beto has again come home way past curfew, and worse, smelling like a cantina. When Beto Sr. tells his son that he either needs to follow the rules or leave, the boy— a senior in high school and a man as far as he's concerned— decides to leave, right then, in the middle of the night. Once he has walked away, though, he realizes he has nowhere to go. Maybe his best friend Jessy— a...
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Chicano! : the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement
CHICANO! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is a detailed account of the Mexican-American struggle to obtain and safeguard their civil rights from 1848 to the present history, highlighting three episodes in Mexican-American history that demonstrate the links between the Chicano Movement and past U. S. Mexican efforts to fight for political rights. Chapter one traces the experiences of the "lost-land" generation, Mexicans who resided in what is now the U. S. Southwest, struggling to assert their rights when their land was taken from them after the Mexican-American War. Chapters...
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Luis Valdez early works : Actos, Bernabé and Pensamiento Serpentino
This collection is actually three books in one: 1) a collection of one-act plays by the famous farmwork theatre, El Teatro Campesino and its director, Luis Valdez, 2) one of the first fully realized, full-length plays by Valdez alone, and 3) an original narrative poem by Luis Valdez.
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