La Conquistadora

Author : Jaima Chevalier
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865347891
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Jaima Chevalier and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few religious icons dominate and inspire their subjects as powerfully as La Conquistadora, America's Oldest Madonna, has over the centuries. La Conquistadora's origins are shrouded in mystery, but Chevalier unveils surprising new information about this icon's amazing provenance and past.

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030738859X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistadora written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure.

Author : Amy G. Remensnyder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199397538
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Amy G. Remensnyder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most books about Mary emphasize her role as the compassionate mother of God, this book uncovers her significant role as an active and often belligerent patron of warfare, as seen from the mosques and castles of medieval Iberia to the cities and shrines of colonial Mexico and finally to present-day New Mexico. Amy Remensnyder explores Mary's prominence on and off the battlefield in the culturally and ethnically diverse world of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, and in colonial Mexico, where Spaniards and indigenous peoples mingled. As this array of peoples turned to her to articulate their identities, Mary was drawn into both hostile and peaceful cross-cultural encounters. Although Mary became an icon of the Christian conquest of Muslims, medieval Muslims and Christians shared her, sometimes even joining together in rituals of worship in her churches. In the New World, some indigenous peoples of the Americas appropriated from the Spanish the idea of Mary as Conquistadora, using it to reinforce the identity they fashioned for themselves as native conquistadors. Offering a ground-breaking look at the Virgin Mary, La Conquistadora connects medieval and early modern understandings of this iconic figure to reveal her enduring legacy.

Author : Amy G. Remensnyder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199893004
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Amy G. Remensnyder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Conquistadora explores Mary's prominence on and off the battlefield in the culturally and ethnically diverse world of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, and in colonial Mexico, where Spaniards and indigenous peoples mingled.

Author : Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913270431
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Angelico Chavez and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as an autobiography, the author lets this famous willow wood statue speak for herself, tell her own story from the time she was brought to New Mexico in 1625 by Fray Benavides until the present. Many photographs bring this remarkable history to life. Fray Ang lico researched, translated and annotated facts about the statue's history, its religious society, its fiestas and chapels, correcting the mistakes and folklore held as truth for more than two centuries. Fray Ang lico Ch vez has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way you measure his career, Fray Ang lico Ch vez was an unexpected phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest. In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Ch vez performed the difficult duties of an isolated backcountry pastor. His assignments included Hispanic villages and Indian pueblos. As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards that because of his small stature, Japanese bullets always missed him. In time, despite heavy clerical duties, Fray Ang lico managed to become an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist. Upon all of his endeavors, one finds, understandably, the imprint of his religious perspective. During nearly seventy years of writing, he published almost two dozen books. Among them were novels, essays, poetry, biographies, and histories. Sunstone Press has brought back into print some of these rare titles.

Author : Pedro Ribera Ortega
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Pedro Ribera Ortega and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029274501X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of Controversy written by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition. Highlighting many of the pivotal questions that have haunted the art world since the NEA debacle of 1988, the contributors to Our Lady of Controversy present diverse perspectives, ranging from definitions of art to the artist's intention, feminism, queer theory, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. Contributors include the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma Pérez; and Deena González (recognized as one of the fifty most important living women historians in America). Accompanied by a bonus DVD of Alma López's I Love Lupe video that looks at the Chicana artistic tradition of reimagining la Virgen de Guadalupe, featuring a historic conversation between Yolanda López, Ester Hernández, and Alma López, Our Lady of Controversy promises to ignite important new dialogues.

Author : Andrew Leo Lovato
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826332264
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Hispanic Culture written by Andrew Leo Lovato and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.

Author : Fray Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865347476
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of the Conquest written by Fray Angelico Chavez and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chvez details the origins and development of America's oldest devotion to the Virgin Mary--Our Lady of the Conquest in Santa Fe--in a scholarly yet devout manner.

Author : Michael P. Carroll
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801870552
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penitente Brotherhood written by Michael P. Carroll and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result, Carroll concludes, Penitente membership facilitated the rise of the modernin New Mexico and--however unintentionally--made it that much easier, after the territory's annexation by the United States, for the Anglo legal system to dispossess Hispanos of their land.