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| the moths by helena maria viramontes: The Moths and Other Stories Helena MarÕa Viramontes, 1995-01-01 The adolescent protagonist of the title story, like other girls in this pioneering collection, rebels against her father, refusing to go to Mass. Instead, dressed in her black Easter shoes and carrying her missal and veil, she goes to her abuelitaÍs house. Her grandmother has always accepted her for who she is and has provided a safe refuge from the anger and violence at home. The eight haunting stories included in this collection explore the social, economic and cultural impositions that shape womenÍs lives. Girls on the threshold of puberty rebel against their fathers, struggle to understand their sexuality, and in two stories, deal with the ramifications of pregnancy. Other women struggle against the limitations of marriage and the Catholic religion, which seek to keep them subservient to the men in their lives. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop as women fightwith varying degrees of successto break free from oppression. Shedding light on the complex lives and experiences of Mexican-American girls and women, this bilingual edition containing the first-ever Spanish translation of ViramontesÍ debut collection, The Moths and Other Stories, will make this landmark work available to a wider audience. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: The Moths and Other Stories Helena María Viramontes, 1995 Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but the central theme is the social and cultural values which shape women's lives. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: The Moths and Other Stories Helena María Viramontes, 1985 |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Their Dogs Came with Them Helena Maria Viramontes, 2007-04-03 Helena Maria Viramontes brings 1960s Los Angeles to life with “terse, energetic, and vivid” (Publishers Weekly) prose in this story of a group of young Latinx women fighting to survive and thrive in a tumultuous world. Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes one of the important multicultural voices of American literature. Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Under the Feet of Jesus Helena Maria Viramontes, 1996-04-01 A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields. “Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.”—Publishers Weekly One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes’ prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feet of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction. Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature Selected as the Univesity of Oregon's 2019 Common Reading book |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: The Last of the Menu Girls Denise Chávez, 2004-04-13 Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees—the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark. But at night she enters a magical realm, and in her imaginary Blue Room, she can fly. At first she is a mesmerized observer of the lives of older girls and their boyfriends, but as she finds a job at the local hospital, and discovers a passion for drama and stories, Rocio begins to make her own choices in love and work. Alive with the taste of tamales and the lyrical tang of the Esquibels’ talk, The Last of the Menu Girls becomes a rich celebration of Chicano culture, and a universal story of finding one’s way in the world. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: City Wilds Terrell Dixon, 2002 The assumptions we make about nature writing too often lead us to see it only as a literature about wilderness or rural areas. This anthology broadens our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora, fauna, geology, and climate that enrich and shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic environs, these stories and essays take us to rivers, parks, vacant lots, lakes, gardens, and zoos as they convey nature's rich disregard of city limits signs. With writings by women and men from cities in all regions of the country and from different ethnic traditions, the anthology reflects the geographic differences and multicultural makeup of our cities. Works by well-known and emerging contemporary writers are included as well as pieces from important twentieth-century urban nature writers. Since more than 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, we need to enlarge our environmental concerns to encompass urban nature. By focusing on urban nature writing, the selections in City Wilds can help develop a more inclusive environmental consciousness, one that includes both the nature we see on a day-to-day basis and how such nearby nature is viewed by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Mythohistorical Interventions Lee Bebout, 2011 The importance of myth, symbol, and image in the Chicano movement and beyond. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Growing Up Latino Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, 1993 A comprehensive collection of Latino writing of fiction and nonfiction works in English. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: My Father Was a Toltec Ana Castillo, 2009-03-12 Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems. Ana Castillo’s poetry speaks—in English and Spanish—to every reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the uninterrupted joy of love, and the deep despair of love lost. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Massacre of the Dreamers Ana Castillo, 1995 f the Dreamers points out the omissions and challenges the misconceptions of a society that recognizes race relations as primarily a black-and-white issue. Castillo's essays analyze the 500-year-old history of Mexican and Amerindian women in this country and document the ongoing political and emotional struggles of their descendants. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Yellow Woman Leslie Marmon Silko, 1993 Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's Yellow Woman explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: A Cage of Butterflies Brian Caswell, 2015-09-01 We're like a new toy ... or a new energy source, and they're just playing with us, experimenting. Working out what we can do. What they can do with us. Mikki and the others live at the farm, an advanced learning facility, a think-tank for a bunch of young people with very high IQs. But what is really going on at the farm? And what about the five much younger children known as the Babies, frail as butterflies? Brian Caswell's new novel explores the power of love . and presents readers with an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of suspense. SHORTLISTED CBC Children's Book of the Year Awards (1993) |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Tsotsi Athol Fugard, 2006 In the Johannesburg township of Soweto, a young black gangster in South Africa, who leads a group of violent criminals, slowly discovers the meaning of compassion, dignity, and his own humanity. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Literatura Chicana, 1965-1995 Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez, David William Foster, 1997 A collection of essays, stories, poems, plays and novels representing the breadth of Chicano/a literature from 1965 to 1995. The anthology highlights major themes of identity, feminism, revisionism, homoeroticism, and internationalism, the political foundations of writers such as Gloria Anzaldua, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Luis Valdes, Gary Soto, and Sergio Elizondo. The selections are offered in Spanish, English, and Spanglish text without translation and feature annotations of colloquial and regional uses of Spanish. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Dancing with Butterflies Reyna Grande, 2009-10-06 In Dancing with Butterflies, Reyna Grande renders the Mexican immigrant experience in “lyrical and sensual” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose through the poignant stories of four women brought together through folklorico dance. Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegría. Yesenia, who founded Alegría with her husband, Eduardo, sabotages her own efforts to remain a vital, vibrant woman when she travels back and forth across the Mexican border for cheap plastic surgery. Elena, grief-stricken by the death of her only child and the end of her marriage, finds herself falling dangerously in love with one of her underage students. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the wounds of abandonment by a dysfunctional family and becomes unable to discern love from abuse. Soledad, the sweet-tempered illegal immigrant who designs costumes for Alegría, finds herself stuck back in Mexico, where she returns to see her dying grandmother. Reyna Grande has brought these fictional characters so convincingly to life that readers will imagine they know them. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Make Lemonade Virginia Euwer Wolff, 2006-05-02 In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Under the Persimmon Tree Suzanne Fisher Staples, 2008-04-01 Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means star, suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman, Elaine, whose Islamic name is Nusrat, is also on her own. She waits out the war in Peshawar, Pakistan, teaching refugee children under the persimmon tree in her garden while her Afghan doctor husband runs a clinic in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Najmah's father had always assured her that the stars would take care of her, just as Nusrat's husband had promised that they would tell Nusrat where he was and that he was safe. As the two look to the skies for answers, their fates entwine. Najmah, seeking refuge and hoping to find her father and brother, begins the perilous journey through the mountains to cross the border into Pakistan. And Nusrat's persimmon-tree school awaits Najmah's arrival. Together, they both seek their way home. Known for her award-winning fiction set in South Asia, Suzanne Fisher Staples revisits that part of the world in this beautifully written, heartrending novel. Under the Persimmon Tree is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Dancing in Odessa Ilya Kaminsky, 2014-01-28 Winner of the prestigious Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, selected by poet and MacArthur genius grant recipient Eleanor Wilner who says, I'm so happy to have a manuscript that I believe in so powerfully, poetry with such a deep music. I love it. One might spend a lifetime reading books by emerging poets without finding the real thing, the writer who (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) can take the top of your head off. Kaminsky is the real thing. Impossibly young, this Russian immigrant makes the English language sing with the sheer force of his music, a wondrous irony, as Ilya Kaminsky has been deaf since the age of four. In Odessa itself, A city famous for its drunk tailors, huge gravestones of rabbis, horse owners and horse thieves, and most of all, for its stuffed and baked fish, Kaminksy dances with the strangest — and the most recognizable — of our bedfellows in a distinctive and utterly brilliant language, a language so particular and deft that it transcends all of our expectations, and is by turns luminous and universal. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: My Brother Jamaica Kincaid, 1998-11-09 Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Feminism on the Border Sonia Saldívar-Hull, 2000-05-09 Sonia Saldívar-Hull's book proposes two moves that will, no doubt, leave a mark on Chicano/a and Latin American Studies as well as in cultural theory. The first consists in establishing alliances between Chicana and Latin American writers/activists like Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga on the one hand and Rigoberta Menchu and Domitilla Barrios de Chungara on her. The second move consists in looking for theories where you can find them, in the non-places of theories such as prefaces, interviews and narratives. By underscoring the non-places of theories, Sonia Saldívar-Hull indirectly shows the geopolitical distribution of knowledge between the place of theory in white feminism and the theoretical non-places of women of color and of third world women. Saldívar-Hull has made a signal contribution to Chicano/a Studies, Latin American Studies and cultural theory. —Walter D. Mignolo, author of Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking This is a major critical claim for the sociohistorical contextualization of Chicanas who are subject to processes of colonization--our conditions of existence. Through a reading of Anzaldua, Cisneros and Viramontes, Saldívar-Hull asks us to consider how the subalternized text speaks, how and why it is muted? How do testimonio, autobiography and history give shape to the literary where embodied wholeness may be possible. It is a critical de-centering of American Studies and Mexican Studies as usual, as she traces our cross(ed) genealogies, situated on the borders. —Norma Alarcon, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid, 1996-01-15 From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry. Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she could hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack Labatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is the black room of the world that is Xuela's barrenness and motherlessness. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Chicana Art Laura E. Pérez, 2007-08-09 DIVThe first full-length survey of contemporary Chicana artists/div |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Age of Iron J M Coetzee, 2015-05-28 Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep. In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times. 'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph 'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times 'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. His novel, Foe, an exquisite reinvention of the story of Robinson Crusoe is also available in Penguin paperback. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez, 2010-01-12 From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory. (The New York Times Book Review) Julia Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas.—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told. —The Washington Post Book World |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Infinite Divisions Tey Diana Rebolledo, Eliana Su‡rez Rivero, 1993 Offers examples of oral narratives and literature from the nineteenth century to the present |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: The swan Roald Dahl, 2014-07-10T00:00:00+02:00 Un racconto che commuove e toglie il fiato anche agli stomaci forti, opponendo al bullismo e alla forza bruta di due ragazzi stupidi e crudeli il riscatto della loro vittima. Peter Watson, adolescente disarmato e apparentemente più debole, sopravvivrà alla ferocia di due piccoli criminali perché è dotato di intelligenza e di insospettata forza d’animo che gli permetteranno perfino di volare lontano con le ali di un cigno... Il testo, in lingua originale, è arricchito da: • Glossari con la traduzione delle parole più interessanti o difficili; • Note su strutture della lingua, forme idiomatiche o familiari, registri espressivi, phrasal verbs...; • Reading Comprehension Exercises. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Flesh to Bone Ire'ne Lara Silva, 2013 Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories in flesh to bone are concerned with borders of all kinds and the potential for transformation and healing. The nine stories write and rewrite myth from a woman's point of view, as they tell stories of women and children whose lives are shaped by the social, political, ecological, and economic disruption and violence of the borderlands. An original and authentic voice...with an original vision. A blend of indigenismo and folktales retold in a modern vein.... These stories at times seem to come from the clouds, from spirits of ancient ancestors, or from the oblique corners of the human consciousness.... A new and engaging duende is being born in these pages.—Alejandro Murguía If Chagall had written, he would have painted words in the fierce brushstrokes of ire'ne lara silva's stories. If Remedios Varo had told stories, she would have wound the tendrils of her magic the way ire'ne lara silva paints her world.—Cecile Pineda |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Literature and Its Writers Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, 2003-07-01 |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Who's Irish? Gish Jen, 2012-08-29 In this dazzling collection of short stories, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Thank You, Mr. Nixon and Mona in the Promised Land—presents a sparkling ... gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it (The New York Times). The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it. With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar—and as strange—as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Chicana (w)rites María Herrera-Sobek, Helena María Viramontes, 1995 Fiction. Since 1982 Maria Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes have been instrumental in bringing together the most salient artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, as well as literary and film critics in the field of Chicana Studies at the University of California at Irvine. The present volume weaves together, through original work and critique, the cultural production of some of the most important Chicana writers and filmmakers of our time. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Chola Salvation Estella Gonzalez, 2021-04-30 In the title story of this collection, Isabela is minding her family’s restaurant, drinking her dad’s beer, when Frida Kahlo and the Virgen de Guadalupe walk in. Even though they’re dressed like cholas, the girl immediately recognizes Frida’s uni-brow and La Virgen’s crown. They want to give her advice about the quinceanera her parents are forcing on her. In fact, their lecture (don’t get pregnant, go to school, be proud of your indigenous roots) helps Isabela to escape her parents’ physical and sexual abuse. But can she really run away from the self-hatred they’ve created? These inter-related stories, mostly set in East Los Angeles, uncover the lives of a conflicted Mexican-American community. In “Sabado Gigante,” Bernardo drinks himself into a stupor every Saturday night. “Aqui no es mi tierra,” he cries, as he tries to ease the sorrow of a life lived far from home. Meanwhile, his son Gustavo struggles with his emerging gay identity and Maritza, the oldest daughter, is expected to cook and clean for her brother, even though they live in East LA, not Guadalajara or Chihuahua. In “Powder Puff,” Mireya spends hours every day applying her make-up, making sure to rub the foundation all the way down her neck so it looks like her natural color. But no matter how much she rubs and rubs, her skin is no lighter. Estella Gonzalez vividly captures her native East LA in these affecting stories about a marginalized people dealing with racism, machismo and poverty. In painful and sometimes humorous scenes, young people try to escape the traditional expectations of their family. Other characters struggle with anger and resentment, often finding innovative ways to exact revenge for slights both real and imagined. Throughout, music—traditional and contemporary—accompanies them in the search for love and acceptance. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Becomingcoztōtōtl Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros, 2019-02-19 Becoming Coztōtōtl is composed of eighteen poems that celebrate the forces that have made claims on us since the beginning of time: our bodies, our land, our families. Throughout these pages, Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros honors our children, our mothers, and our antepasados with a subtle lyricism that demands our attention.Read these poems. They are timely in their defiance of injustice, timely in their unfeigned compassion.-Octavio Quintanilla, San Antonio Poet Laureate and author of If I Go Missi |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Female Mythologies in Contemporary Chicana Literature Nadine Gebhardt, 2007-08 Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: In Mexican-American/ Chicano culture, feminine archetypes from the Mexican tradition play an important role for woman's subjectivity. Traditionally, such archetypes epitomize Catholic-patriarchal constructions of womanhood. Idolized by the figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona, the most prevailing representations of female sexuality and motherhood evolve around the passive virgin, the sinful seductress, and the traitorous mother. Along the lines of Chicana feminism, the traditional definitions of these feminine archetypes can be seen as promoting an image of woman that is detrimental to female subjectivity. Although there are three figures, these archetypes evoke a binary opposition that defines woman as either good woman or bad woman, virgin or whore. As such, they limit and circumscribe the Chicana's development of subjectivity. But these cultural icons may also epitomize feminine power, and hence provide the Chicana with possible feminist role models to back up her emancipation. Chicana feminists have employed creative writing to counter the Catholic-patriarchal discourse on the Virgin of Guadalupe, Malinche, and La Llorona. As they explore these cultural archetypes in their novels, short stories, and poems, Chicana feminists attempt to reveal the mechanisms by which the original images of these mythic figures have been subverted, disempowered, and distorted. But most importantly, they seek to deconstruct the virgin/whore dichotomy by rewriting the mythic figures. Through a revision of existing myths, Chicana writers are able to create a feminist mythology that is rooted in cultural tradition but simultaneously serves as an act of resistance to the dominant discourse. This Master's thesis will explore the mythic figures of Guadalupe, Malinche, and La Llorona in all |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Under the Feet of Jesus Helena Maria Viramontes, 1996-04-01 Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature “Stunning.”—Newsweek With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Eat the Mouth That Feeds You Carribean Fragoza, 2021-03-30 WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD PEN AMERICA LITERARY FINALIST Recommended by Héctor Tobar as an essential Los Angeles book in the New York Times. Carribean Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the domestic surreal, featuring an unusual gathering of Latinx and Chicanx voices from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, and universes beyond. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is an accomplished debut with language that has the potential to affect the reader on a visceral level, a rare and significant achievement from a forceful new voice in American literature.—Kali Fajardo-Anstine, New York Times Book Review, and author of Sabrina and Corina Carribean Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the family’s beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Eat the Mouth that Feeds You renders the feminine grotesque at its finest.—Myriam Gurba, author of Mean Eat the Mouth that Feeds You will establish Fragoza as an essential and important new voice in American fiction.—Héctor Tobar, author of The Barbarian Nurseries Fierce and feminist, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is a soul-quaking literary force.—Dontaná McPherson-Joseph, The Foreword, *Starred Review . . . a work of power and a darkly brilliant talisman that enlarges in necessary ways the feminist, Latinx, and Chicanx canons.—Wendy Ortiz, Alta Magazine Fragoza's surreal and gothic stories, focused on Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant women's voices, are sure to surprise and move readers.—Zoe Ruiz, The Millions This collection of visceral, often bone-chilling stories centers the liminal world of Latinos in Southern California while fraying reality at its edges. Full of horror and wonder.—Kirkus Reviews, *Starred Review Fragoza's debut collection delivers expertly crafted tales of Latinx people trying to make sense of violent, dark realities. Magical realism and gothic horror make for effective stylistic entryways, as Fragoza seamlessly blurs the lines between the corporeal and the abstract.—Publishers Weekly The magic realism of Eat the Mouth that Feeds You is thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories themselves . . . a wonderful debut.—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: The West Wing , 2021 Originally published in 1963, The West Wing is one of Edward Gorey's classic books. This wordless tale unfolds through thirty-one mysterious drawings that carry the viewer from room to room via long corridors. Peeling wallpaper hangs to the floor, a candle held by invisible hands casts light into the dark, and odd characters appear unbidden. The viewer wonders: What's haunting this building? And who left that boulder on the table?First released as part of The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction (whichincluded The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Insect God) this book is undoubtedly a cautionarytale. Stop. Do not enter. Unless you dare to find out what's happening in The West Wing. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Rebozos de Palabras Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, 2013-03-14 Helena María Viramontes is a professor, scholar-activist, and renowned author of works of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been anthologized and is read widely in the United States and abroad. For many of her readings and speaking engagements she arrives wearing a rebozo, a shawl worn by Mexican and Chicana women living on both sides of the US–Mexico border. Once, when asked about her rebozo, Viramontes explained that the pre-Columbian icon is her “security blanket,” which she embraces in order to find comfort. For her readers, her writing functions like a rebozo de palabras,” a shawl woven with words that nurture. As Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs points out in her insightful introduction, not only has Viramontes’s work not yet received the broad critical engagement it richly deserves, but there remains a monumental gap in the interpretations of Chicana literature that reach mainstream audiences. Rebozos de Palabras addresses this void by focusing on how the Chicana image has evolved through Viramontes’s body of work. With a foreword by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, this collection addresses Viramontes entire oeuvre through newly produced articles by major literary critics and emerging scholars who engage Viramontes’s writing from multiple perspectives. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution Red Poppy, 2020-09-15 “To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.” —from the introduction by Julia Alvarez With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion. Included in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. An all-star team of translators, including former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera along with young, emerging talent, have made many of the poems available for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essential, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression. |
| the moths by helena maria viramontes: Latina Self-portraits Bridget A. Kevane, Juanita Heredia, 2000 Embracing Chicana, Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers and writers descended from a combined U.S. and Latin American heritage, Latina literature is one of the fastest growing and most exciting fields in fiction. This literature is characterized by revisionist views of recent history, a concern with exile and borders, a blending of genres, and a complex understanding of the term feminist. In these ten interviews, Kevane and Heredia give writers the opportunity to talk about how they began to write, the craft of writing, the conjunction of life, art and politics, literary influences, and their goals as artists. Readers will meet Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Helena María Viramontes. The writers' personal and literary journeys vividly portrayed in these interviews will enrich and enhance the readers' understanding of this exciting field. The volume also includes bibliographies of the writers' work. |
HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES The Moths - RWW Soundings
The Moths. IWAS. my help, And it seemed only fair. Abuelita had pulled me through the rages of scarlet fever by placing, removing, and replacing potato slices on my temples; she had seen me through several whippings, an arm broken by a dare jump off Tio Enrique's to. lshed, puberty, and my first lie. Rea.
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Helena Maria Viramontes and when my hands fell from my lap, I awoke to catch them. The sun was setting, an orange glow, and I knew Abuelita was hungry. There comes a time when the sun is defiant. Just about the time
The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes (book)
The Moths and Other Stories Helena MarÕa Viramontes,1995-01-01 The adolescent protagonist of the title story like other girls in this pioneering collection rebels against her father refusing to go to Mass Instead dressed in her black Easter
Viramontes' Magical Reality: A Metonymic Reading of 'The Moth'
"The Moths," the title work in a collection of short fiction entitled The Moths and Other Stories, is an example of a text which is composed in the style of "magical realism," the predominant style of Latin American fiction.1 The magically realistic text is typically a metaphoric depiction of the social, political, religious, or
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Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban
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Introduction. With this collection of stories, Helena María Viramontes makes an important contribution to the growing body of writ-ing by Chicanas and Latinas in this country whose art speaks to the reality of women of color.
The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes
The Moths and Other Stories Helena MarÕa Viramontes,1995-01-01 The adolescent protagonist of the title story like other girls in this pioneering collection rebels against her father refusing to go to Mass Instead dressed in her black Easter
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The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes(1) - goramblers.org WEBViramontes's The Moths, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character
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The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes: The Moths and Other Stories Helena MarÕa Viramontes,1995-01-01 The adolescent protagonist of the title story like other girls in this pioneering collection rebels against her father refusing …
Cultural Reclamations in Helena Viramontes The Moths
12 Apr 2009 · The Moths and Other Stories. by Helena Viramontes have garnered particular critical attention. Ana María Carbonell, for example, explores the role of the traditional La Llorona myth in Viramontes’ story “The Cariboo Café” while JoAnn Pavletich and Margot Gayle Backus analyze Viramontes’
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Helena Maria Viramontes' seminal short story collection, "The Moths," is a literary tour de force that transcends the boundaries of genre. Published in 1985, the collection has become a cornerstone of Chicano literature, captivating readers
The Moths - JSTOR
The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes I was fourteen years old when Abuelita requested my help. And it seemed only fair. Abuelita had pulled me through the rages of scarlet fever by placing, removing, and replacing potato slices on the temples of my forehead; she had seen me through several whippings, an arm broken
With the Sacredness of a Priest: The Body as Ritual Site of ... - JSTOR
returns to Viramontes’s now classic story, “The Moths,” with specific focus on its representation of spirituality as it relates to embodied ritual and ancestral knowledge and for what the story teaches and reveals about lived Chicana epis-temologies and ontologies.
Gendered Spaces and Subject Formation in ‘The Moths’ by Helena …
Gendered Spaces and Subject Formation in ‘The Moths’ by Helena María Viramontes . By Jennifer A. Colón . Postmodern thinking denounces the notion of the human subject determined as a pre-entity to be discovered and instead recognizes the …
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Helena Maria Viramontes' seminal short story collection, "The Moths," is a literary tour de force that transcends the boundaries of genre. Published in 1985, the collection has become a cornerstone of Chicano literature, captivating readers
Helena Mar?a Viramontes - JSTOR
Her creative books are The Moths and Other Stories (1985, 1995) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) other than the two currently being reviewed. Her scholarly books, in
Praise for the work of Helena María Viramontes - Arte Público Press
The Moths. Praise for the work of Helena María Viramontes: “A rich, challenging narrative that rewards the reader with insight to the passions and torments that drive the characters.” —Belles Letres on The Moths and Other Stories.
Helena Maria Viramontes
Viramontes focuses on the struggles and sufferings of Chicana women with their households, their culture, and their society. The short story “Growing,” which is included in her work The Moths and Other Stories (1985), illustrates how a young women’s coming-of-age separates her from the rest of the family.
Dialogical Ecofeminist Perspectives in “The Moths” by Helena …
The following pages deal with the intersection of ecology and gender as a valid category of analysis for the short stories “The Moths” by Helena María Viramontes and “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros.
HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES The Moths - RWW Soundings
The Moths. IWAS. my help, And it seemed only fair. Abuelita had pulled me through the rages of scarlet fever by placing, removing, and replacing potato slices on my temples; she had seen …
The Moths - University of Utah
Helena Maria Viramontes and when my hands fell from my lap, I awoke to catch them. The sun was setting, an orange glow, and I knew Abuelita was hungry. There comes a time when the …
The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes (book)
The Moths and Other Stories Helena MarÕa Viramontes,1995-01-01 The adolescent protagonist of the title story like other girls in this pioneering collection rebels against her father refusing to …
Viramontes' Magical Reality: A Metonymic Reading of 'The Moth'
"The Moths," the title work in a collection of short fiction entitled The Moths and Other Stories, is an example of a text which is composed in the style of "magical realism," the predominant …
The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes - old.ccv.org
Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women …
TheMoths - Arte Público Press
Introduction. With this collection of stories, Helena María Viramontes makes an important contribution to the growing body of writ-ing by Chicanas and Latinas in this country whose art …
The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes
The Moths and Other Stories Helena MarÕa Viramontes,1995-01-01 The adolescent protagonist of the title story like other girls in this pioneering collection rebels against her father refusing to …
The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes - old.ccv.org
The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes(1) - goramblers.org WEBViramontes's The Moths, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes …
The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes .pdf
The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes: The Moths and Other Stories Helena MarÕa Viramontes,1995-01-01 The adolescent protagonist of the title story like other girls in this …
Cultural Reclamations in Helena Viramontes The Moths
12 Apr 2009 · The Moths and Other Stories. by Helena Viramontes have garnered particular critical attention. Ana María Carbonell, for example, explores the role of the traditional La …
The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes Copy - flexlm.seti.org
Helena Maria Viramontes' seminal short story collection, "The Moths," is a literary tour de force that transcends the boundaries of genre. Published in 1985, the collection has become a …
The Moths - JSTOR
The Moths Helena Maria Viramontes I was fourteen years old when Abuelita requested my help. And it seemed only fair. Abuelita had pulled me through the rages of scarlet fever by placing, …
With the Sacredness of a Priest: The Body as Ritual Site of ... - JSTOR
returns to Viramontes’s now classic story, “The Moths,” with specific focus on its representation of spirituality as it relates to embodied ritual and ancestral knowledge and for what the story …
Gendered Spaces and Subject Formation in ‘The Moths’ by Helena …
Gendered Spaces and Subject Formation in ‘The Moths’ by Helena María Viramontes . By Jennifer A. Colón . Postmodern thinking denounces the notion of the human subject …
The Moths By Helena Maria Viramontes [PDF] - flexlm.seti.org
Helena Maria Viramontes' seminal short story collection, "The Moths," is a literary tour de force that transcends the boundaries of genre. Published in 1985, the collection has become a …
Helena Mar?a Viramontes - JSTOR
Her creative books are The Moths and Other Stories (1985, 1995) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) other than the two currently being reviewed. Her scholarly books, in
Praise for the work of Helena María Viramontes - Arte Público Press
The Moths. Praise for the work of Helena María Viramontes: “A rich, challenging narrative that rewards the reader with insight to the passions and torments that drive the characters.” …
Helena Maria Viramontes
Viramontes focuses on the struggles and sufferings of Chicana women with their households, their culture, and their society. The short story “Growing,” which is included in her work The …
Dialogical Ecofeminist Perspectives in “The Moths” by Helena …
The following pages deal with the intersection of ecology and gender as a valid category of analysis for the short stories “The Moths” by Helena María Viramontes and “Woman Hollering …
