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Titolo: | With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries / / edited by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez |
Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
Disciplina: | 028/.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Mexican American authors - Books and reading |
American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism | |
Mexican Americans - Books and reading | |
Books and reading - United States | |
Book collecting - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | Martín-RodríguezManuel M. |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction ; Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Alma Ester Cortes ; Learning to read / Argelia Flores ; Learned to read at my momma's knee / Carlos Cumpián ; La mees chancla / Carmen Tafolla ; On reading: books in my life / Eliud Martínez ; Holy scripture / Ever Rodríguez ; Storm's impact one for the books / Veronica Flores-Paniagua ; Gift of poetry, gift of reading / Irma Flores-Manges ; The bookcase / Lucía de Anda Vázquez ; Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Anthony Macías ; Un juego de libros añejos / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas ; A set of old books / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas ; Sea fever / Maria Kelson ; Reading Thomas Hardy / María Teresa Márquez ; They say that mejicanos don't read / Minerva Daniel ; In the stacks / Monica Hanna ; Los libros de mi padre / Shanti A. Sánchez ; My father's books / Shanti A. Sánchez ; Reading saved me from the chaos / Shonnon Gutierrez ; The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Veronica Ortega ; Nena / Vito de la Cruz ; Revisiting Nancy Drew / Beth Hernandez-Jason ; Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction ; Fernando Vázquez / Cuauhtemoc B. Díaz ; Lupe Rodríguez / Helen Fabela Chávez ; Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction ; El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Carlos Morton ; Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / A. Gabriel Melendez ; The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez ; Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Eleanor B. Adams ; Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | With a book in their hands |
ISBN: | 0-8263-5477-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458324403321 |
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