Arco Iris Desnudo Y Otros Cuentos

Arco Iris Desnudo Y Otros Cuentos
Author: Nasario García
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This charming collection of tales are based on stories and characters Nasario García knew of growing up in the Rio Puerco Valley of northern New Mexico.

Hoe, Heaven, and Hell

Hoe, Heaven, and Hell
Author: Nasario García
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826355668

When Nasario García was a boy in Ojo del Padre, a village in the Rio Puerco Valley northwest of Albuquerque, he grew up the way rural New Mexicans had for generations. His parents built their own adobe house, raised their own food, hauled their water from the river, and brought up their children to respect the old ways. In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family’s village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.

Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse

Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse
Author: Nasario García
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2024-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826367011

Nasario García dedicated his life to educating others in a variety of settings, including universities and prisons. A native of rural New Mexico and a beloved writer and folklorist, in Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse García reflects on his experiences of being educated and of being an educator. He takes readers from his childhood in a one-room schoolhouse through graduate school and to universities and other settings in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, and New Mexico, all places in which he spent time teaching in various capacities. Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is a love song to education and a reminder to everyone that it is possible to find a life, love, and purpose beyond the circumstances into which they were born.

The Days of the Rainbow

The Days of the Rainbow
Author: Antonio Skarmeta
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590516281

Nico, the son of a noted Chilean philosophy professor, witnesses his father’s arrest while he is teaching a class. Bettini, the father of Nico’s best friend, is a leftist advertising executive who has been blacklisted and is out of work after having been imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet’s police. This doesn’t stop the ministry of the interior from asking Bettini, who is the best in the business, to come up with a plan for the upcoming referendum designed to say “yes” to Pinochet’s next term. But just hours after he has been approached by the right, the head of the opposition makes him the exact same offer. What is Bettini going to do? Put his life on the line or sacrifice his political convictions? Finally he goes with the left. The next hurdle is finding a slogan that would be approved by the sixteen factions that comprise the opposition and who never agree on anything. Whiskey after whiskey, an idea finally emerges. This is a vivacious tale that examines how advertising and politics come together during the Pinochet regime. But this is also a coming-of-age story where we see through Nico’s experience what it means to grow up in a country where nothing is allowed and almost any move can feel like an earnest act of resistance.

Grandma's Santo on Its Head

Grandma's Santo on Its Head
Author: Nasario García
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826353282

In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland.

A Distant Father

A Distant Father
Author: Antonio Skarmeta
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590516265

From the prize-winning Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta, author of Il Postino, comes this soulful novella about a son and his estranged father Jacques is a schoolteacher in a small Chilean village, and a French translator for the local paper. He owes his passion for the French language to his Parisian father, Pierre, who, one year before, abruptly returned to France without a word of explanation. Jacques and his mother's sense of abandonment is made more acute by their isolation in this small community where few read or think. While Jacques finds distraction in a crush on his student's older sister, his preoccupation with his father's disappearance continues to haunt him. But there is often more to a story than the torment it causes. This one is about forgiveness and second chances.

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393308808

"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"

Tierra Amarilla

Tierra Amarilla
Author: Sabine R. Ulibarrí
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0826314384

Bilingual collection of short stories in English and Spanish about rural life in northern New Mexico.

Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan

Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan
Author: Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816526819

Chaco Canyon, the great Ancestral Pueblo site of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, remains a central problem of Southwestern archaeology. Chaco, with its monumental Ògreat houses,Ó was the center of a vast region marked by ÒoutlierÓ great houses. The canyon itself has been investigated for over a century, but only a few of the more than 200 outlier great housesÑkey to understanding Chaco and its timesÑhave been excavated. This volume explores the Chaco and post-Chaco eras in the northern San Juan area through extensive excavations at the Bluff Great House, a major Chaco ÒoutlierÓ in Utah. BluffÕs massive great house, great kiva, and earthen berms are described and compared to other great houses in the northern Chaco region. Those assessments support intriguing new ideas about the Chaco region and the effect of the collapse of Chaco Canyon on ÒoutlyingÓ great houses. New insights from the Bluff Great House clarify the construction and use of great houses during the Chaco era and trace the history of great houses in the generations after ChacoÕs decline. An innovative comparative study of the northern and southern portions of the Chaco world (the northern San Juan area around Bluff and the Cibola area around Zuni) leads to new ideas about population aggregation and regional abandonment in the Southwest. Appendixes on CD-ROM present details and descriptions of artifacts recovered from Bluff: ceramics, projectile points, pollen analyses, faunal remains, bone tools, ornaments, and more. This book is one of only a handful of reports on Chacoan great houses in the northern San Juan region. It provides an in-depth study of the Chaco era and clarifies the relationship of ÒoutlyingÓ great houses to Chaco Canyon. Research at the Bluff Great House begins to answer key questions about the nature of Chaco and its region, and the history of the northern San Juan in the Chaco and post-Chaco worlds.