Amor Eterno

Amor Eterno
Author: Patricia Preciado Martin
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816519958

It brings a mother to her knees to plead for her son's safe return from war. It draws a grown woman back to the site of cherished childhood memories. It keeps the passion and romance of youth alive in an older woman's heart. It brings together heiresses and busboys, lawyers and chambermaids. Only love, the magical elixir that transcends boundaries and relieves heartaches, can do these things. Through earthy, charming stories that blend songs, letters, and prayers, Patricia Preciado Martin explores the hidden places of the soul and the human longing for Amor Eterno, eternal love. Forbidden love, enchanted love, and desperate love are just some of the varieties of love that get mixed into this sweet concoction of romance, wit, and instruction. A delicious combination of modern sensibility and folk wisdom--including recipes for fresh breath and special prayers to Saint Valentine--this book tells universal tales of devotion and desire. Seeking love in many forms, Martin's characters relive unforgettable experiences, pursue elusive destinies, give themselves with abandon, and yearn for home. Love is the mysterious and miraculous emotion that leads them to deny or indulge their deepest needs. Amor Eterno is a passionate and humorous collection of stories that will inspire us to treasure and share the loves we have known.

Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance

Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance
Author: Evelina Ferdandez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1350230235

Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author A curated collection of new Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground between Latinx and Latin American artists? Featuring a mix of plays and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino Theater Company's Encuentro de las Américas festival, produced in partnership with the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in 2017. The collection chronicles not only the theatrical productions of the festival, but also features a transnational exploration of U.S. Latinx and Latin American theatre-making. Alongside plays by Evelina Fernández, Alex Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdrán this anthology also includes a mix of monologues, snapshots, profiles and interviews that together provide a dynamic account of these intersections within U.S. Latinx and Latin American Theater. A unique collection it serves not only as a testament to the diversity of Latinx artists, but also to the strength of the Latinx Theater movement and its ever-growing networks across the Hemispheric Americas. Full playtexts include: Dementia by Evelina Fernández WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharoah Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza 10 Million by Carlos Celdrán

L grimas negras

L grimas negras
Author: Natitxu Arbulo
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1463348282

Isabel una joven madre, una manana fria de invierno decide abandonar a su familia, para trasladarse a una ciudad desconocida, bajo el mandato de una Orden religiosa. En ese delirio arrastra a sus dos hijos, Javier de ocho anos y Katherine de seis. Es la historia de una lucha encarnizada de una nina que no tuvo, ninez, infancia, adolescencia y juventud. A traves de los anos empieza a luchar contra esa dictadura Politica religiosa. El conseguir una pequena libertad, le costo el mas alto precio que se puede pagar. Con su esfuerzo llega a lo mas alto, a vivir una vida de lujo, llena de suenos, pero eso no la lleva a alcanzar la libertad, ni la felicidad. Seguira buscando y la vida le ira ensenando, como se puede sobrevivir a la adversidad, sin peder la esperanza de encontrar el camino a la libertad y la felicidad.

Mexican Postcards

Mexican Postcards
Author: Carlos Monsivais
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-05-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780860916048

In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio, boleros, and melodrama. Monsivais's chronicles are laconic and satirical, taking as a constant theme the conflicts between Mexican and North American culture and between modern and traditional ways of life.

Animal SOS Animal

Animal SOS Animal
Author: Octavio Pineda
Publisher: Hipertexto
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 958488946X

In these poems, thirteen animal ambassadors take the floor and call on their main predator, the human being, for help. (Trilingual: English / Spanish / French)

Global Critical Race Feminism

Global Critical Race Feminism
Author: Adrien Katherine Wing
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2000-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 081479338X

An anthology containing some 30 essays which focus on topics including a critique of American feminist legal scholarship; motherhood and work in cultural context; Josephine Baker and the Cold War; the campaign against female circumcision; violence against Aboriginal women in Australia; and "marketization" and the status of women in China. Includes a foreword by social justice activist and professor at the U. of California-Santa Cruz, Angela Y. Davis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

What it Means to be a Man

What it Means to be a Man
Author: Rafael L. Ramírez
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813526614

What It Means to Be a Man begins with a discussion of machismo set in the context of the social construction of masculinity. Ramírez presents his interpretation of what it means to be a Puerto Rican man, discussing the attributes and demands of masculinity, and pointing out the ways in which strength, competition, and sexuality are joined with power and pleasure. He examines the erotic relationships between men as part of the expressions of masculinity, and analyzes how the homosexual experience reproduces the dominant masculine ideology.

Our Landless Patria

Our Landless Patria
Author: Rosa E. Carrasquillo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0803215371

In particular, marginal citizenship adopted patriarchy as a model to regulate social relations at home, failing to address gender inequalities and perpetuating class differences."--BOOK JACKET.

Un Verdadero Padre

Un Verdadero Padre
Author: Jorge Eduardo González
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1463315198

Esta novela está basada en experiencias vividas a lo largo de los años con familiares y amigos adoptivos, en sus relaciones con sus padres adoptivos y sus padres biológicos. Es la vida de un muchacho que se enamora de una joven embarazada, y por amor a ella decide hacerse cargo de la bebé como si fuese su padre biológico, haciendo uso de las antiguas creencias de ocultar la verdad a los hijos. Este hecho le trae consecuencias y sufrimientos, pero también recompensas inesperadas.