Sofi Mendozas Guide To Getting Lost In Mexico

Author : Malín Alegría
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689878117
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico written by Malín Alegría and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Southern California high school senior Sofi Mendoza lies to her parents and crosses the border for a weekend party, she has no idea that she will get stuck in a Mexican village with family she has never met before, unable to return to the United States and the easy life she knew.

Author : Malin Alegria
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689878109
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Estrella's Quinceañera written by Malin Alegria and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this touching debut novel, Estrella Alvarez is about to turn 15, and there's nothing her meddling mother and T'a Lucky want more than to throw her a gaudy "quinceaera"--a party that Estrella would rather avoid.

Author : Mary Pat Brady
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478022558
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scales of Captivity written by Mary Pat Brady and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scales of Captivity, Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive or cast-off child in Latinx and Chicanx literature and art between chattel slavery’s final years and the mass deportations of the twenty-first century. She shows how Latinx expressive practices expose how every rescaling of economic and military power requires new modalities of capture, new ways to bracket and hedge life. Through readings of novels by Helena María Viramontes, Oscar Casares, Lorraine López, Maceo Montoya, Reyna Grande, Daniel Peña, and others, Brady illustrates how submerged captivities reveal the way mechanisms of constraint such as deportability ground institutional forms of carceral modernity and how such practices scale relations by naturalizing the logic of scalar hierarchies underpinning racial capitalism. By showing how representations of the captive child critique the entrenched logic undergirding colonial power, Brady challenges racialized modes of citizenship while offering visions for living beyond borders.

Author : Erin Hurt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351606964
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre written by Erin Hurt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and readers alike need little help identifying the infamous Bridget Jones or Carrie Bradshaw. While it is no stretch to say that these fictional characters are the most recognizable within the chic lit genre, there are certainly many others that have helped define this body of work. While previous research has focused primarily on white American chick lit, Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre, takes a wider look at the genre, by exploring chick lit novels featuring protagonists from a variety of ethnic backgrounds set both within and outside of the US.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982951
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations revolve around the conveyance of young Latino/a experience, and what that means for the authors as they overcome societal obstacles and aesthetic complexity. The authors also speak extensively about their experiences within the publishing industry and with their audiences. As such, Aldama's collection presents an open forum to contemporary Latino/a writers working in a vital literary category and sheds new light on the myriad formats, distinctive nature, and cultural impact it offers.

Author : Malín Alegría
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545469988
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Second Chances (Border Town #4) written by Malín Alegría and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dos Rios, Texas, things aren't always as they seem.Santiago might be in over his head this time. . . Santiago's grades are slipping again, but he's determined to prove to his family that he can be successful at something, even if it's not school. When a fancy new taco chain moves in across the street from the Garza family restaurant, Santiago is inspired-- he'll open a food business of his own!Unfortunately, running a business is not as much fun as Santiago thought it would be. Fabi and Alexis keep interfering, customers aren't easily won over, and even worse, El Payaso is back in Santiago's life-- and just waiting for him to mess up.

Author : Kristy L. Ulibarri
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477326030
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visible Borders, Invisible Economies written by Kristy L. Ulibarri and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer crystallize the experience of Latinx subjects and migrants subjugated to social death, their political existence erased by disenfranchisement and racist violence while their bodies still toil in behalf of corporate profits. In Kristy L. Ulibarri’s telling, art clarifies what power obscures: the national-security state performs anti-immigrant and xenophobic politics that substitute cathartic nationalism for protections from the free market while ensuring maximal corporate profits through the manufacture of disposable migrant labor.

Author : Malín Alegría
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545469570
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling Too Fast (Border Town #3) written by Malín Alegría and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dos Rios, Texas, things aren't always as they seem.Alexis Garza has music in her blood. She's certain that one day, she'll be leaving the border town of Dos Rios, Texas behind for a glamorous life of singing stardom. Until then, however, she'll have to content herself with belting her heart out at voice classes, going to high school mariachi band practice, and helping out at the Graza family restaurant.Alexis's ordinary life takes a turn for the extraordinary when she meets the swoon-worthy lead singer of a rival high school's mariachi band. His singing (and his smile) make Alexis melt. There's one small problem-- this suave singer doesn't seem to know that Alexis exists. She's determined to make herself heard-- no matter what the cost.

Author : Sean James Bosman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004469001
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rejection of Victimhood in Literature written by Sean James Bosman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how selected works of fiction advocate for just memories and promote identities that accept ethical agency and that exercise power and control over their own lives and destinies, no matter how limited such control may be.

Author : Ellen Wittlinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442466839
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart on My Sleeve written by Ellen Wittlinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told entirely via email, instant messages, letters, and postcards, this novel tells of two teens' long-distance relationship after they meet at a college visit during senior year of high school. "I'm not picking Cartwright just because I met Julian there. For all I know he'll change his mind and not even go! Although that would be a shame because I want him to be the father of my firstborn child. KIDDING! :-}" While on a college visit, Chloe meets Julian, another prospective freshman, and infatuated, the two high school seniors begin a long-distance relationship. Chloe is thrilled that she'll have a boyfriend at college, although she doesn't know how to break the news to Eli, her best friend whom she's sort of dating. As Chloe and Julian prepare to meet again, they must face the question of whether their relationship is based on who they really are or who they imagine each other to be.