Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Auteur de Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
A propos de l'auteur
Alicia Gaspar De Alba is Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, English, and Women's Studies at UCLA. Her nine previous books encompass historical novels, poetry, short stories, and a cultural study of Chicano art. Alma Lpez is an artist, activist, and visual storyteller originally from Los afficher plus Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. They live in Los Angeles. afficher moins
Œuvres de Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition (1998) 50 exemplaires
Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition" (Chicana Matters) (2011) 20 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributeur — 172 exemplaires
Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers (1995) — Contributeur — 122 exemplaires
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection) (2006) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Without Discovery: A Native Response to Columbus (Turning Point Series) (1992) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
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- 14
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- 374
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Conception is brought from Mexico to Massachusetts as a slave in the late 1600s. But on the ship on the way there, she is raped over and over. Once in New England, she has a baby, but the couple who bought her want a second child and haven’t been able to. So, while Conception tries to teach her daughter Spanish and some of her own culture, Rachel takes it upon herself to turn the child against her mother, and eventually takes Hanna (or Jeronima, depending if you ask Rachel or Conception). In a town not too far away, people are being accused of being witches, including Conception’s friend, Tituba.
This was good. There were parts that were a bit slower to read (literally), when Conception was writing letters, as the font was changed to look like handwriting. It does make me wonder if younger people will be able to read those parts of the book at all (if kids are no longer being taught cursive). It’s a tough book to read, though. I saw someone use the word “gritty”. Good way to describe it. Hanna/Jeronima drove me nuts sometimes! But I guess it’s hard for me to understand how easy it is for a child to be “brainwashed”, and that’s really what it amounted to.… (plus d'informations)