Las Hijas De Juan - Daughters Betrayed

Informationen zum Autor Josie Méndez-Negrete Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Mexican American author Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Josie Mendez-Negrete, Josie Méndez-Negrete
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2006
• EAN: 9780822338963
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3896-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Mexiko, Biografien: allgemein