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The region of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado holds a unique place in the world of Spanish folk literature. Isolated from the rest of the Spanish-speaking world for most of its history since its first settlement in 1598, it has retained, even into our own time, much of its Hispanic folkloric heritage from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-ballads, songs, poems, folktales, sayings, anecdotes, proverbs, riddles, and folk drama.
In this book, written in the late 1930s and never before published, Aurelio M. Espinosa, New Mexico's pioneer folklorist, presents the first comprehensive, authoritative account of the relict folklore, bringing together the results of his collecting during the first third of this century, in the Southwest and in Spain, and his many ground-breaking scholarly studies.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Aurelio M. Espinosa, born in 1880 in southern Colorado of an old Hispanic family of New Mexico, received his Ph. D. in Spanish language from the University of Chicago in 1909. During his lifelong study of the folk literature of Spain and Spanish America, he wrote many articles and books.
Zusammenfassung
Scholarly work of preservation and source-book on the life, literature, history and traditions of the Hispanic Southwest.
