Josie Méndez-Negrete

Las hijas de Juan

Daughters Betrayed

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A testimonio of patriarchal abuse and incest within a Chicano family that becomes a testament to women's ability to bring the fight for social justice into the previously protected fortress of the family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2006
• Englisch, Spanisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338963
• ISBN-10: 0822338963
• Artikelnr.: 21102430

Autorenporträt

Josie Méndez-Negrete is Professor of Mexican American Studies in the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Inhaltsangabe

About the series xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Author's Note xv
Prologue: Sin padre 1
México lindo y querido: Dearest and beloved Mexico 3
A donde iran los muertos? Quién sabe a donde iran: Where will the dead go?
Who knows where they will go 41
Buscando abrigo y no lo encontraran: Searching for shelter they will never
find 81
Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido: So far from the land that gave
me birth 139
She kept her head in a jar by the door: Mantuvo su cabeza el el jarrón
junto a la puerta 159
Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons, Bone by Bone 185
Songs Quoted in Text 191
Glossary 201