With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries

With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries / edited by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2014]
Subjects:
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
American literature > Mexican American authors
Book collecting
Books and reading
Mexican Americans > Books and reading
Literatur
Amerikanisches Englisch
Chicanos
Lesekultur
Livres et lecture > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Livres et lecture.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains americains d'origine mexicaine > Livres et lecture.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Alma Ester Cortés
  • 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 Gutiérrez
  • 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 / Cuauhtémoc 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 Meléndez
  • 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.

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