Stories, Memories, Thoughts is the second book in a series of narrative essay collections written by American Literature students at South Texas Community College, Starr County Campus. The narratives offer fresh and interesting views of life, family, friends, and culture in and around Starr County, Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico. As with the previous book, Collection of Memories, all royalties from the sale of Stories, Memories, Thoughts are donated to Starr County Public Library.
Stories, Memories, Thoughts is the second book in a series of narrative essay collections written by American Literature students at South Texas Community College, Starr County Campus. The narratives offer fresh and interesting views of life, family, friends, and culture in and around Starr County, Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico. As with the previous book, Collection of Memories, all royalties from the sale of Stories, Memories, Thoughts are donated to Starr County Public Library.
An invaluable visual reference when sailing in foreign waters, this highly illustrated boat dictionary in nine languages focuses on all the topics boaters will need to refer to when abroad.
[A] searing debut." —i>O, The Oprah Magazine In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a shifting America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters span both worlds but belong to none, illustrating the conflict between self and society, tradition and change. This all–new edition of Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable writer.
La Evolución de la Luz" es un libro sobre espiritualidad, presentado con el lenguaje más coloquial de modo que cualquier tipo de lector, ya sea que tenga información previa o no sobre el tema, lo entienda perfectamente y logre identificarse con la autora. "La Evolución de la Luz" está escrito en primera persona, logrando una profunda conexión con la autora. Al leer este libro, el lector siente como si estuviera platicando con una buena amiga. Vanessa revela secretos inquietantes de su niñez haciendo que el lector tome su poder y reconozca el Plan Divino. Cualquiera que haya pasado por momentos difíciles se identifica con ella, dándole sentido a su vida y sus experiencias.
While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities.
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