Author: Somaly Mam
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385526229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
The Road of Lost Innocence
Author: Somaly Mam
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385526229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385526229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
Inocencia Perversa
Author: Bruce-Novoa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Alfredo de Inocencia
Author: Escragnolle Taunay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Chicana Feminisms
Author: Gabriela F. Arredondo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822331414
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
DIVAn anthology of original essays from Chicana feminists which explores the complexities of life experiences of the Chicanas, such as class, generation, sexual orientation, age, language use, etc./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822331414
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
DIVAn anthology of original essays from Chicana feminists which explores the complexities of life experiences of the Chicanas, such as class, generation, sexual orientation, age, language use, etc./div
A Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, Abridged from the Author's Larger Work
Author: Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Latin Deli
Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820342718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reviewing her novel, The Line of the Sun, the New York Times Book Review hailed Judith Ortiz Cofer as "a writer of authentic gifts, with a genuine and important story to tell." Those gifts are on abundant display in The Latin Deli, an evocative collection of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction in which the dominant subject—the lives of Puerto Ricans in a New Jersey barrio—is drawn from the author's own childhood. Following the directive of Emily Dickinson to "tell all the Truth but tell it slant," Cofer approaches her material from a variety of angles. An acute yearning for a distant homeland is the poignant theme of the title poem, which opens the collection. Cofer's lines introduce us "to a woman of no-age" presiding over a small store whose wares—Bustelo coffee, jamon y queso, "green plantains hanging in stalks like votive offerings"—must satisfy, however imperfectly, the needs and hungers of those who have left the islands for the urban Northeast. Similarly affecting is the short story "Nada," in which a mother's grief over a son killed in Vietnam gradually consumes her. Refusing the medals and flag proferred by the government ("Tell the Mr. President of the United States what I say: No, gracias."), as well as the consolations of her neighbors in El Building, the woman begins to give away all her possessions The narrator, upon hearing the woman say "nada," reflects, "I tell you, that word is like a drain that sucks everything down." As rooted as they are in a particular immigrant experience, Cofer's writings are also rich in universal themes, especially those involving the pains, confusions, and wonders of growing up. While set in the barrio, the essays "American History," "Not for Sale," and "The Paterson Public Library" deal with concerns that could be those of any sensitive young woman coming of age in America: romantic attachments, relations with parents and peers, the search for knowledge. And in poems such as "The Life of an Echo" and "The Purpose of Nuns," Cofer offers eloquent ruminations on the mystery of desire and the conflict between the flesh and the spirit. Cofer's ambitions as a writer are perhaps stated most explicitly in the essay "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria." Recalling one of her early poems, she notes how its message is still her mission: to transcend the limitations of language, to connect "through the human-to-human channel of art."
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820342718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reviewing her novel, The Line of the Sun, the New York Times Book Review hailed Judith Ortiz Cofer as "a writer of authentic gifts, with a genuine and important story to tell." Those gifts are on abundant display in The Latin Deli, an evocative collection of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction in which the dominant subject—the lives of Puerto Ricans in a New Jersey barrio—is drawn from the author's own childhood. Following the directive of Emily Dickinson to "tell all the Truth but tell it slant," Cofer approaches her material from a variety of angles. An acute yearning for a distant homeland is the poignant theme of the title poem, which opens the collection. Cofer's lines introduce us "to a woman of no-age" presiding over a small store whose wares—Bustelo coffee, jamon y queso, "green plantains hanging in stalks like votive offerings"—must satisfy, however imperfectly, the needs and hungers of those who have left the islands for the urban Northeast. Similarly affecting is the short story "Nada," in which a mother's grief over a son killed in Vietnam gradually consumes her. Refusing the medals and flag proferred by the government ("Tell the Mr. President of the United States what I say: No, gracias."), as well as the consolations of her neighbors in El Building, the woman begins to give away all her possessions The narrator, upon hearing the woman say "nada," reflects, "I tell you, that word is like a drain that sucks everything down." As rooted as they are in a particular immigrant experience, Cofer's writings are also rich in universal themes, especially those involving the pains, confusions, and wonders of growing up. While set in the barrio, the essays "American History," "Not for Sale," and "The Paterson Public Library" deal with concerns that could be those of any sensitive young woman coming of age in America: romantic attachments, relations with parents and peers, the search for knowledge. And in poems such as "The Life of an Echo" and "The Purpose of Nuns," Cofer offers eloquent ruminations on the mystery of desire and the conflict between the flesh and the spirit. Cofer's ambitions as a writer are perhaps stated most explicitly in the essay "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria." Recalling one of her early poems, she notes how its message is still her mission: to transcend the limitations of language, to connect "through the human-to-human channel of art."
Women's Untold Stories
Author: Mary Romero
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415922074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415922074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Official Gazette
Author: Philippines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
Brown River, White Ocean
Author: Luis Francia
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813519999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
31 short stories and 108 poems represent a literary history of English writing in the Philippines, from the turn of the century to the present.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813519999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
31 short stories and 108 poems represent a literary history of English writing in the Philippines, from the turn of the century to the present.
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Porto Rico
Author: Puerto Rico. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description