The Legend Of Ponciano Gutierrez And The Mountain Thieves

Author : A. Gabriel Meléndez
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826352405
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Ponciano Gutiérrez and the Mountain Thieves written by A. Gabriel Meléndez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time in the Mora Valley of northern New Mexico there lived a farmer named Ponciano Gutiérrez. On a trip through the mountains he was taken captive by Vicente Silva and his gang of bank robbers. This tale of Ponciano’s quick-witted escape has been a bedtime story for generations in the Paiz family. New Mexico authors at the turn of the last century published many accounts of the crimes of Vicente Silva. This book is the first to present a Silva legend that has been kept alive by families in Mora since the 1890s. The Paiz family version is presented in English with a Spanish translation by A. Gabriel Meléndez.

Author : Casimiro Paiz
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826352391
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Ponciano Gutiérrez and the Mountain Thieves written by Casimiro Paiz and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recounts Ponciano's run-in with Vicente Silva and his bandits, who history confirms murdered, stole, and rustled cattle throughout the 1880s. It's the story of a farmer outwitting Silva in a folktale that shapes our understanding of the cultures of northern New Mexico"--

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826365612
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana written by and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana represents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish and in English, painstakingly translated and annotated by Phillip B. Gonzales. Manuel Sariñana came to the New Mexico territory from Mexico to work as a Spanish-language journalist. While covering politics, he wrote and published Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México as a picaresque work, a common genre in Mexico that uses satire to narrate a drama based on concrete social issues in the author’s immediate vicinity. In his preface, Sariñana makes his intent clear: to address the unseemly manner in which New Mexico’s Democratic Party attempts to gain leverage in elections. But, in a caricature of two immigrant peons, he surreptitiously takes to task how nuevomexicanos look down on people from Mexico. Gonzales provides a critical introduction, an interpretation of Sariñana’s piece, and a historical framework to contextualize the author’s experiences and the events alluded to in the novella. The result brings this important work of fiction to a new generation of readers.

Author : Felipe Maximiliano Chacón
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082636327X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Feliz Ingenio Neomexicano written by Felipe Maximiliano Chacón and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 International Latino Book Award: Bronze Medal for Fiction Translation, Spanish to English El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesía y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author. Journalist and author Felipe M. Chacón, part of a distinguished and active family of nuevomexicano authors, published the book in 1924. El feliz ingenio neomexicano (that "inspired New Mexican wit") reestablishes Chacón's work and his reputation by making the text widely available to readers for the first time in nearly a century. With Nogar and Meléndez's excellent translation of the text, this bilingual volume offers access to both English and Spanish editions for scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. Additionally, the in-depth introduction and appendix materials gathered by the editors place Chacón's book in the context of the time in which it was printed, offering a unique insight into the work. A welcome volume for scholars and literature lovers alike, El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a groundbreaking work of literary recuperation.

Author : Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826354769
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With a Book in Their Hands written by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences.

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826309105
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Made Dragonfly written by and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Zuni myth first recorded a century ago.

Author : John Kenneth Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarous Mexico written by John Kenneth Turner and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.

Author : Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826344623
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Llorona written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Llorona, the Crying Woman, is the legendary creature who haunts rivers, lakes, and lonely roads. Said to seek out children who disobey their parents, she has become a "boogeyman," terrorizing the imaginations of New Mexican children and inspiring them to behave. But there are other lessons her tragic history can demonstrate for children. In Rudolfo Anaya's version Maya, a young woman in ancient Mexico, loses her children to Father Time's cunning. This tragic and informative story serves as an accessible message of mortality for children. La Llorona, deftly translated by Enrique Lamadrid, is familiar and newly informative, while Amy Córdova's rich illustrations illuminate the story. The legend as retold by Anaya, a man as integral to southwest tradition as La Llorona herself, is storytelling anchored in a very human experience. His book helps parents explain to children the reality of death and the loss of loved ones.

Author : Cynthia E. Milton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377462
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art from a Fractured Past written by Cynthia E. Milton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and artists expand on the commission's work, arguing for broadening the definition of the testimonial to include various forms of artistic production as documentary evidence. Their innovative focus on representation offers new and compelling perspectives on how Peruvians experienced those years and how they have attempted to come to terms with the memories and legacies of violence. Their findings about Peru offer insight into questions of art, memory, and truth that resonate throughout Latin America in the wake of "dirty wars" of the last half century. Exploring diverse works of art, including memorials, drawings, theater, film, songs, painted wooden retablos (three-dimensional boxes), and fiction, including an acclaimed graphic novel, the contributors show that art, not constrained by literal truth, can generate new opportunities for empathetic understanding and solidarity. Contributors. Ricardo Caro Cárdenas, Jesús Cossio, Ponciano del Pino, Cynthia M. Garza, Edilberto Jímenez Quispe, Cynthia E. Milton, Jonathan Ritter, Luis Rossell, Steve J. Stern, María Eugenia Ulfe, Víctor Vich, Alfredo Villar

Author : A. Gabriel Meléndez
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806158638
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico written by A. Gabriel Meléndez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley’s history and their identity—military records, travelers’ diaries, newspaper articles, poetry, and more—and bind them into a leather portfolio known as “The Book of Archives.” When a bomb blast during the Mexican-American War scatters the book’s contents to the wind, the memory of the accounts lives on instead in the minds of Mora residents. Poets and storytellers pass down the valley’s traditions into the twentieth century, from one generation to the next. In this pathbreaking dual-language volume, author A. Gabriel Meléndez joins their ranks, continuing the retelling of Mora Valley’s tales for our time. A native of Mora with el don de la palabra, the divine gift of words, Meléndez mines historical sources and his own imagination to reconstruct the valley’s story, first in English and then in Spanish. He strings together humorous, tragic, and quotidian vignettes about historical events and unlikely occurrences, creating a vivid portrait of Mora, both in cultural memory and present reality. Local gossip and family legend intertwine with Spanish-language ballads and the poetry of New Mexico’s most famous dueling troubadours, Old Man Vilmas and the poet García. Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, Meléndez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.