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Cruel Country.
"'I am learning the alchemy of grief--how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted--but I have not yet mastered this art, ' writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer's return to her native Pu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Georgia Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""The Cruel Country""; ""Notebook One""; ""1 The black word: el cáncer""; ""2""; ""3 Estoy aquÃ""; ""4 The kingdom of the sick is very cold""; ""5 A circuitous journey""; ""6 Black hills, black lakes, la esperanza""; ""7 The way my mother walked""; ""8 A field of azucenas""; ""9 No se habla español""; ""10 Like Godâ€?s own thunder""; ""11 Dream of los angelitos""; ""12 The Ouija board answers""; ""13 Listen""; ""14 Cálmate""; ""15""; ""16 A continuous thread""; ""17 The reluctant quinceañera""; ""18 Omens""; ""19""; ""20 The albums""; ""21""; ""22""; ""23 A hunger for words""
- ""10""""11""; ""12""; ""13 Where time and place and eternity meet""; ""14""; ""15""; ""16""; ""17 Asà es""; ""18 A dream or la verdad?""; ""19""; ""20 Adiós""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Gracias""; ""Selected Sources""; ""Judith Ortiz Cofer: Works Cited and Excerpted""
- ""24""""25 Orar: Teach me to pray""; ""26 Fighting demons""; ""27 Fighting the restless spirits""; ""28 Pruebas""; ""29 In the throes of the Puerto Rican Syndrome""; ""30 La limpieza, prayer, and poetry""; ""31""; ""32 Death by la tristeza""; ""33""; ""34 Too late to ask""; ""35 El respeto""; ""36""; ""37""; ""38 Sola means alone""; ""39 Verde: the color of hope""; ""40""; ""41""; ""42 The coquÃesâ€? song""; ""43 Luto and las palomas""; ""44""; ""45 Before the storm""; ""46 Proper attire""; ""47""; ""48""; ""49""; ""50 The origins of grace""; ""51""; ""52 Keepsakes and empty places""; ""53""
- ""54 Novenas and las costumbres""""55""; ""56 The acolyte""; ""57""; ""58""; ""59 Certification of la nada""; ""60 On cooking""; ""61 Rituals of la vida""; ""62""; ""63 A sueño is a message""; ""64""; ""65 The meaning of de afuera""; ""66 Poetry and prayer""; ""67 The many names of grief""; ""68""; ""69 The Ulysses Syndrome""; ""70 History of dominoes""; ""71 Numinosity""; ""72 Ashes""; ""73 No puede ser""; ""74""; ""75""; ""76 Teach me to sit still""; ""77 Counting down""; ""Notebook Two""; ""1""; ""2 The vast azul""; ""3 Broken heart syndrome""; ""4""; ""5""; ""6""; ""7""; ""8""; ""9""