Méndez-Negrete / Josie Mendez-Negrete / Mignolo Las hijas de Juan

Daughters Betrayed
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8839-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America Otherwise

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Méndez-Negrete, Josie

Josie Mendez-Negrete, Mendez-Negrete

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

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

Über Autor(innen)

Josie Méndez-Negrete is Professor of Mexican American Studies in the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio.