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The Cruel Country
"The Cruel Country is a memoir centered around the author's journey to Puerto Rico after her mother had been diagnosed with late stage lung cancer. The story takes us through Cofer's journey as she sits by the her mother's hospital bed during the last moments of her life, through...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Georgia Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""The Cruel Country""; ""Notebook One""; ""1 The black word: el cÃncer""; ""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 CÃlmate""; ""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""