José Orozco

Receive Our Memories

The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Receive Our Memories presents and contextualizes the translated letters of Luz Moreno, an ex-sharecropper in a Mexican town, to his daughter, Francisca Moreno Rivera, after she married and left her family to work in the canneries of Stockton, California. Offering a personal look at the everyday lives of the marginalized people impacted by US-Mexico immigration, the correspondence reflects on politics, culture, religion, and aging. Richly illustrated withoriginal drawings, this quiet yet powerful family story through letters sheds light on a world rarely seen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199340439
• ISBN-10: 0199340439
• Artikelnr.: 47865317

Autorenporträt

José Orozco is Associate Professor of History at Whittier College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 The Morenos of San Miguel el Alto
* Chapter 2 "Follow your path my beloved children, go in peace": On
saying goodbye and keeping in contact
* Chapter 3 "Humanity cries tears of blood": On religion, epistles, and
the end of the world
* Chapter 4 "El miserable pueblo" : On being poor and knowing it
* Chapter 5 "Newspapers are liars": On the importance of reading and
writing
* Chapter 6 "The anxieties of an old man are very sad": On being old
and preparing to die
* Afterword
* Bibliography
* Index