Author: Adam Hopkins
Publisher: Viking Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Elizabeth Bakewell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826351760
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while ¡Qué padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres to padres? Thus begins a journey through Mexican culture in all its color: weddings, dinner parties, an artist's studio, heart-stopping taxi rides, angry journalists, corrupt politicians, Blessed Virgins, and mothers both sacred and profane. Along the way, a reader discovers not only an invaluable lexicon of Mexican slang (to be used with caution or not at all) but also thought-provoking reflections on the evolution of language; its winding path through culture, religion, and politics; and, not least, what it means-and what it threatens-to be a creative female, a madre.

Author: Elizabeth Bakewell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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How could madre mean whore as much as virgin? What happens to the ninety-nine madres when one father enters the room and they become a group of padres? And why can't a bien educada woman in Mexico say the word madre without raising eyebrows? --

Author: Camilo José Cela
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871133793
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo José Cela has long been recognized as one of the preeminent Spanish writers of the twentieth century. Journey to the Alcarria is the best known of his vagabundajes, Cela's term for his books of travels, sketchbooks of regions or provinces. The Alcarria is a territory in New Castile, northeast of Madrid, surrounding most of the Guadalajara province. The region is high, rocky, and dry, and is famous for its honey. Cela himself is "the traveler," an urban intellectual wandering from village to village, through farms and along country roads, in search of the Spanish character. Cela relishes his encounters with the simple, honest people of the Spanish countryside--the blushing maid in the tavern, the small-town shopkeeper with airs of grandeur lonely for companionship, the old peasant with his donkey who freely shares his bread and blanket with the stranger. These vignettes are narrated in a fresh, clear prose that is wonderfully evocative. As the New York Times wrote, Cela is "an outspoken observer of human life who built his reputation on portraying what he observed in a direct colloquial style."

Author: Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300191769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held Feb. 16-May 19, 2013 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Author: Caesar E. Farah
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815650620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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In 1905, the Jesuit scholar Antûn Rabbât discovered the writings of Elias-al- Mûsili in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. al- Mûsili, a seventeenth century Arab and priest of the Chaldean Church, traveled widely across colonial Spanish America becoming the first person to visit the Americas from Baghdad. Rabbât transcribed into Arabic and published those portions relating to al-Mûsili’s travels and Middle Eastern historian Caesar Farah is the first to make these writings available in English translation.

Author: Hezekiah Butterworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Chandler Rathfon Post
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Allegory
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Mary Austin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1992

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