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Hispanoamerica En Su Literatura

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Price: $3.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: 1965-12-01

Seller ID: 0393096602-01

ISBN: 0393096602

Condition: VeryGood

crisp clean w/light shelfwear/edgewear - may have remainder mark
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Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico (Volume 92) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

By: Leï¿½n-Portilla, Miguel

Price: $16.94

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 1986-05-15

Seller ID: M0806119748Z2

ISBN: 0806119748

Condition: VeryGood

This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment. The selections come from the Aztecs, the Mayas, the Mixtecs and Zapotecs of Oaxaca, the Tarascans of Michoacan, the Otom s of central Mexico, and others. They have come down to us from inscriptions on stone, the codices, and accounts written, after the coming of Europeans, of oral traditions.

It is Miguel Le n-Portilla's intention "to bring to contemporary readers an understanding of the marvelous world of symbolism whic...
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Like a Bride and Like a Mother (Jewish Latin America Series)

By: Nissï¿½n, Rosa

Price: $15.12

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press: 2013-02-15

Seller ID: M0826323642Z3

ISBN: 0826323642

Condition: Good

These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her life is a need to find her own way, and the story of how she does so is intensely personal and yet universal in its humanness. This quest begins in Oshinica's childhood: at about age ten she's taken from the public school in Mexico City and placed in a Jewish one. There she begins to understand what it means to be Jewish. Though somewhat indifferent to Hebrew lessons, s...
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Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader

By: Tom Miller

Price: $3.00

Publisher: University of Arizona Press: 2003-09-01

Seller ID: M0816522413Z3

ISBN: 0816522413

Condition: Good

Twenty miles wide and two thousand long, the U.S.-Mexico borderland is a country unto itself that has been celebrated in the works of many writers--and not just those who call it home. Here artists as disparate as Carlos Fuentes, Maya Angelou, and Allen Ginsberg have found literary inspiration, presenting the region through varied viewpoints that give border writing its unusual scope and texture.

This wide-ranging anthology--gathering short stories and essays, song lyrics and poems--offers readers a new appreciation of the border and its literature. Residents of the region may be st...
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Category: Caribbean & Latin American

Hispanoamerica En Su Literatura

Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico (Volume 92) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Like a Bride and Like a Mother (Jewish Latin America Series)

Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader