The Love Queen of the Amazon
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2001-11
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1609401808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.
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The Love Queen of the Amazon
Author: Cecile Pineda
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Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780241131985
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Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Little Brown
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780316708128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A South American convent girl discovers, after an affair with a skipper, that her talents lie between the sheets, so she turns her home into a bordello and proceeds to service such illustrious figures as George Washington and Ben Franklin.
Show and Tell
Author: Karen Christian
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780826318312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What elements are present for a body of writing to be considered Latina/o? Through the analysis of nine recent Latina/o novels, Karen Christian melds the theory of "performativity" with the latest scholarship on ethnicity and ethnic literature to create a framework for viewing identity as a continuous process that cannot be reduced to static categories.
Redoubt
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 0930324862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Told in the voice of a lone holdout standing guard on an unnamed frontier, Redoubt addresses questions of conception and birth, gender, war and the slouch toward Apocalypse. Structured like a series of jazz riffs, its thematic underpinnings are drawn in part from the dictionary definitions that introduce each section--back cover.
Bardo99
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 0930324838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joseph Viek, Bardo99's protagonist awakens to learn there has been an accident. But what kind of accident? The massive coronary that ends his own life, or a much more dread accident, the kind we associate with places like Chernobyl? On his way to the disaster zone, a road accident strands him in a deserted tundra. Rescued by an unholy trinity of American GIs, more adventures await him: quarantine in a cancer ward -- or is it an AIDS ward? -- a resurrection of the dead from all of post-modernist catastrophes: my lai, babi yar, kigali, and 'no-gun' ri. And why is it that everything he touches seems to have the uncanny misfortune of blowing up? Cecile Pineda has crafted a divine comedy where the sacred keeps uneasy truce with the profane--back cover.
River Without a Cause
Author: Sam Moses
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1639365583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt's "river of doubt" with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonder. Sam Moses took part in the adventure of a lifetime when he, along with seventeen men and two women, embarked on the Rio Roosevelt Expedition. They would follow the former president's wake down five-hundred miles of extreme whitewater into the dark heart of the Amazon. The party was guided by two chiefs from the Cinta Larga tribe—the same tribe that stalked Roosevelt’s expedition in 1914—who, between rapids, tell the story of the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. After the wildest whitewater is past, Moses travels with the chiefs to their village to witness the massive illegal mahogany logging from their forest, the Roosevelt Indigenous Territory. River Without a Cause puts us in the raft during those heart pounding rapid descents, as we experience the drama, dynamics and disputes between the Bull Moose and his co-leader, Brazil’s most famous explorer, the rigid Colonel Candido Rondon. As the Amazon stands on the precipiece of hope with the election of a new Brazillian president, River Without a Cause is a moving and galvanzing tale of adventure that is a fitting tribute to this world wonder.
Fishlight
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2001-11
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1609401832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.
Literature of Nature
Author: Patrick D. Murphy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9781579580100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006-04-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0292713126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content. They use novels, short stories, poetry, drama, documentary films, and comic books to shape the raw materials of life into art objects that cause us to participate empathetically in an increasingly complex Chicano/a identity and experience. This book presents far-ranging interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Some are mainstream, widely recognized creators, while others work from the margins because of their sexual orientations or their controversial positions. Frederick Luis Aldama draws out the artists and authors on both the aesthetic and the sociopolitical concerns that animate their work. Their conversations delve into such areas as how the artists' or writers' life experiences have molded their work, why they choose to work in certain genres and how they have transformed them, what it means to be Chicano/a in today's pluralistic society, and how Chicano/a identity influences and is influenced by contact with ethnic and racial identities from around the world.
