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Author |
: Alicia Gaspar de Alba |
Publisher |
: Bilingual Review Press (AZ) |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UTEXAS:059173000486268 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories by : Alicia Gaspar de Alba
These are stories about strong women: survivors that include professionals or professional whores, writers, educators, counselors and curanderas, the bewitched and the bewitchers. The title story and its description of the sexual abuse of a young girl by her stepfather will make it clear that this work treats outrages as well as mysteries, and the reader will come to learn that a part of surviving is to begin to understand outrageous humanity.
Author |
: Catrióna Rueda Esquibel |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2009-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0292782101 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292782105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis With Her Machete in Her Hand by : Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole community—lesbian and straight, male as well as female—who write about the Chicana lesbian experience. To create a first full map of that community, this book explores a wide range of plays, novels, and short stories by Chicana/o authors that depict lesbian characters or lesbian desire. Catrióna Rueda Esquibel starts from the premise that Chicana/o communities, theories, and feminisms cannot be fully understood without taking account of the perspectives and experiences of Chicana lesbians. To open up these perspectives, she engages in close readings of works centered around the following themes: La Llorona, the Aztec Princess, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, girlhood friendships, rural communities and history, and Chicana activism. Her investigation broadens the community of Chicana lesbian writers well beyond Moraga and Anzaldúa, while it also demonstrates that the histories of Chicana lesbians have had to be written in works of fiction because these women have been marginalized and excluded in canonical writings on Chicano life and experience.
Author |
: Judith Merril |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015019978298 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Survival Ship, and Other Stories by : Judith Merril
Author |
: Matthew Lewis |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2017-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780750985284 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0750985283 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Survival of the Princes in the Tower by : Matthew Lewis
The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in British history. Traditionally considered victims of their ruthless uncle, there are other suspects too often and too easily discounted. There may be no definitive answer, but by delving into the context of their disappearance and the characters of the suspects, Matthew Lewis examines the motives and opportunities afresh, as well as asking a crucial but often overlooked question: what if there was no murder? What if Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, survived their uncle's reign and even that of their brother-in-law Henry VII? In this new and updated edition, compelling evidence is presented to suggest the Princes survived, which is considered alongside the possibility of their deaths to provide a rounded and complete assessment of the most fascinating mystery in history.
Author |
: James O'Reilly |
Publisher |
: Travelers' Tales Guides |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1885211325 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781885211323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Danger! by : James O'Reilly
From the safety of a deep leather chair, these stories of danger and survival from around the world will get your adrenaline flowing. From mountain ice to jungle rot, from bombed-out villages and urban ghettos to wild animals and depraved humans, the authors struggle with life, death and their very sanity on their travels.
Author |
: Jonathan Franklin |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2015-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501116292 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501116290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis 438 Days by : Jonathan Franklin
The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.
Author |
: Paul Dowswell |
Publisher |
: Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 109 |
Release |
: 2013-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409569114 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140956911X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis True Stories of Survival: Usborne True Stories by : Paul Dowswell
From shark attacks and blazing airships to exploding spacecraft and sinking submarines, find out what made the difference between life and death in these ten thrilling stories of survival. Gripping and engaging for readers who prefer real life to fiction.
Author |
: A. Quintana |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2003-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781403982254 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1403982252 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading U.S. Latina Writers by : A. Quintana
This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of the book - that is, combining both US Latina and Latin American women writers - is significant because it introduces a more global and transnational way of approaching the literature. The introduction outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature, the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the traditions and influences that shape the works; and key critical issues of which teachers should be aware. The collection seeks to provide readers with a variety of Latina texts that will guarantee its long-term usefulness to teachers and students of pan-American literature. Because it is no longer possible to understand U.S. Latina literature without taking into consideration the histories and cultures of Latin America, the volume will, through its organization, argue for a more globalized type of analysis which considers the similarities as well as the differences in U.S. and Latin American women's cultural productions. In this context, the term Latina evokes a diasporic, transnational condition in order to address some of the pedagogical issues posed by the bicultural nature which is inherent in pan-American women's literature.
Author |
: Sylvia Ann Grider |
Publisher |
: Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1585442933 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781585442935 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Let's Hear It by : Sylvia Ann Grider
A collection of 22 stories by Texas women writers that weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State, from 1865 to the present. Authors include Berverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter and Joyce Gibson Roach.
Author |
: Craig Childs |
Publisher |
: Back Bay Books |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2007-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316028882 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316028886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Way Out by : Craig Childs
The "gritty and riveting" story of naturalist Craig Childs's epic journey through the desert canyons of the American Southwest (The Oregonian). Are you prepared for a perilous journey into the wild? This taut, intensely dramatic narrative immerses us in a labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest where virtually nothing is alive — barely any vegetation, few signs of wildlife, and scant traces of any human precursors — and where we pay witness as two men confront not just immutable forces of nature but the limits of their own sanity. As a chronicle of adventure, as an emotionally charged human drama, as a confessional memoir, The Way Out is a transcendent book, a work destined to earn a lasting place in the literature of extremes.