Flipando en colores

Mario, 4 años Una noche llamó a su padre desde la cama llorando porque había tenido una pesadilla y su padre le dijo: «Las pesadillas son un sueño feo y, si piensas en lo que más te gusta, soñarás con algo bonito. A ver, ¿qué es lo que más te gusta del mundo?». Y Mario dijo llorando: «¡Las tetas!». David, 4 años Mirando el Guernica de Picasso, dijo: «Pero ¿qué desorden es éste?». Claudia, 6 años Claudia le preguntó un día a su madre: «Mamá, y Jesús en el cielo ¿está en la cruz o está suelto?».

are downright heart-breaking, and some others are happy events, which they must undergo before setting roots in this country. As in real life, not every immigrant coming to the United States makes it, in this novel; Rosario did, but not her sister, Berta. Some characters in this novel are truly loveable, others quite detestable; all nevertheless are quite human. The reader weeps at times, is angry at times, rejoices at times, but at the close you will find a new meaning for what is meant for a Latina Mistress.

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...