Telling Identities: The Californio testimonios

History

Sánchez, Rosaura

Americas

Univ. of Minnesota Press

The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S. Here are workers living in the chaparral around the San Diego border with Mexico, battered wives, farmworkers, divorced women rebuilding their lives, a traveling salesman, and conflicted academics. In direct and hard-edged prose, the author gives voice to the disenfranchised and alienated. The narrative perspective changes from story to story, portraying the experiences of what could become classic characters in Chicana fiction. "Sánchez brilliantly and sensitively portrays the hard life of undocumented Mexican men and women working in the United States. She is a masterful storyteller able to weave suspense from the first to the last sentence. Written with the style reminiscent of Tomas Rivera and Juan Rulfo, each narrative conveys a message difficult to forget."--María Herrera Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara "Sánchez is a storyteller, interweaving voices at once unheard or unspoken. The characters in these stories range from the disenfranchised to Chicano/a academics, but all struggle to have their stories told."--Helena Viramontes

He Walked In and Sat Down and Other Stories (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

University of New Mexico Press

The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S. Here are workers living in the chaparral around the San Diego border with Mexico, battered wives, farmworkers, divorced women rebuilding their lives, a traveling salesman, and conflicted academics. In direct and hard-edged prose, the author gives voice to the disenfranchised and alienated. The narrative perspective changes from story to story, portraying the experiences of what could become classic characters in Chicana fiction.
 "Sánchez brilliantly and sensitively portrays the hard life of undocumented Mexican men and women working in the United States. She is a masterful storyteller able to weave suspense from the first to the last sentence. Written with the style reminiscent of Tomas Rivera and Juan Rulfo, each narrative conveys a message difficult to forget."--María Herrera Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara
 "Sánchez is a storyteller, interweaving voices at once unheard or unspoken. The characters in these stories range from the disenfranchised to Chicano/a academics, but all struggle to have their stories told."--Helena Viramontes

He Walked In and Sat Down and Other Stories

Genre Fiction

UNM Press

Chicano Discourse: Socio-Historic Perspectives

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Newbury House Publishers

Regardless the times and territory, and even space, Latino rebels engage in disruption and direct action in the 23rd Century as they feel compelled to redress the social inequities that still persist from the past. Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita continue to imagine new spaces for thinking about resistance to state violence, subaltern histories, and futures to come. Just as their previous book, Lunar Braceros, 2125-2148, explored the extractive colonial tools of environmental disaster from the perspectives of moon workers and movements across the Americas, Keep Me Posted: Logins from Tomorrow delves deeper into the meaning of collective resistance-and how the subversive work of survival carries within it the memories of generations. As a political allegory for our moment, this urgent yet playful novel is indispensable for interpreting the unfolding continuities of struggle, and for striving toward a world we want. Christopher Perreira, American Studies, University of Kansas Keep me Posted, the sequel to Lunar Braceros, both written by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, bring us Hispanic, Latino rebels who engage on disruption and direct action in the 23rd Century. The great grandchildren of Lydia Vallejo and Frank Ho, the original rebels, inheriting the Vallejo-Ho tech skills as well as the gene to furthering the protest and rebellion, and face their own set of struggles in a dystopic Cali-Texas. The novel looks back on the 22nd century rebellion that brought reforms but not systemic change; the powerful still call the shots.

Keep Me Posted: Logins from Tomorrow

Pita, Beatrice

United States

Floricanto Press

Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest

History & Criticism

Duke University Press

Product Description In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the history of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Sánchez and Pita analyze a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories, and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, showing how Chicano/a works often celebrate an idealized colonial Spanish past as a way to counter stereotypes of Mexican and Indigenous racial and ethnic inferiority. As they demonstrate, these texts often erase the participation of Spanish and Mexican settlers in the dispossession of Indigenous lands. Foregrounding the relationship between literature and settler colonialism, they consider how literary representations of land are manipulated and redefined in ways that point to the changing practices of dispossession. In so doing, Sánchez and Pita prompt critics to reconsider the role of settler colonialism in the deep history of the United States and how spatial and discursive violence are always correlated. Review “In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita present a brilliant critical history of the enclosure of land, water, and other resources while making a powerful argument for the significance of literature as a window into everyday contexts of enclosure. Partly focused on what literature makes visible, the authors also illuminate its powers of invisibility and its elision of the historical and material conditions of enclosure. Sánchez and Pita thus make a field-transforming intervention, suggesting Chicanx literature's origins in the repression of Indigenous people's responses to dispossession.”―Curtis Marez, author of, University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus“Ushering in a timely and fully formed paradigm for the study of spatial and discursive violence, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita teach readers a valuable and sustained lesson in the all important nuances and responsibilities of applied theory. This is the book Chicana/o literary history has been waiting for.”―Angie Chabram, editor of, The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader"Sánchez and Pita give us tools for understanding the long history of contemporary conflicts, and push us to think more deeply about what liberatory futures may look like."―William Orchard, American Studies"Sanchez and Pita uplift the importance of cultural production, especially literature, to enable new imaginaries that incite transformation."―John Jairo Valencia, E3W Review of Books"This book sets in motion innovative incursions into the national and the global from a southwestern standpoint."―Roberto Cantu, World Literature Today About the Author Rosaura Sánchez is Professor Emeritus of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Telling Identities: The Californio Testimonios. Beatrice Pita is Retired Lecturer of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Together they have written Conflicts of Interest: The Letters of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.

This is the first book to formulate a theoretical framework to explain the relation between verbal interaction and societal factors. Topics include: the Chicano population as a lingual and national minority residing in the Southwest; speakers who continue to use Spanish as their informal language; social variables and discourse analysis; Chicano Spanish in terms of varieties, fields of discourse, and participants; and code-switching.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Arte Publico Press

The CAMINANDO 1-2-3 series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, CAMINANDO also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language. Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the CAMINANDO 1 workbook is an ideal companion to any level one Intermediate Spanish language classroom. Professor Rosaura Sánchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Caminando 1: Intermediate Spanish Foundations - Level One (Spanish and English Edition)

Cognella

The CAMINANDO 1-2-3 series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, CAMINANDO also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language. Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the CAMINANDO 2 workbook is an ideal companion to any level two Intermediate Spanish language classroom. Professor Rosaura Sánchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Caminando 2: Intermediate Spanish Foundations - Level Two (Spanish and English Edition)

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