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Thunderweavers = Tejedoras de rayos
- Title
- Thunderweavers = Tejedoras de rayos / Juan Felipe Herrera.
- Author
- Herrera, Juan Felipe.
- Publication
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | PS3558.E74 T48 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 73, 73, ix pages : portrait; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the destruction of a people and all evidence of their lives. The sections are written in the voices of four women from a family in Chiapas: Xunka, a lost twelve-year-old girl; Pascuala, the mother; grandmother Maruch; and Makal, an older daughter who is pregnant. Each voice weaves into the others and speaks for still other members of the larger Mayan and Native American family. Herrera, a major Chicano poet known for his expansive, surreal writing, here takes on a spare and lyrical style in the tradition of Rosario Castellanos, recalling as well the canto legacy of Pablo Neruda and the testimonial call of Ernesto Cardenal. Thunderweavers is a poetic account of transcendence and continuity in the midst of chaos, suffering, and war-a Mayan cycle of personal, physical, and spiritual struggles that Indian women have been continuously engaged in for th-a past five hundred years.--Amazon.com.
- Series Statement
- Camino del sol
- Uniform Title
- Camino del sol
- Alternative Title
- Tejedoras de rayos
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- poetry.
- Upside-down books
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Upside-down books.
- Poésie.
- Livres tête-bêche.
- Language (note)
- English and Spanish.
- Contents
- Xunka: the lost daughter -- Pascuala: mother among thunder -- Maruch: grandmother of the roads -- Makal: daughter of the drums -- Xunka: la hija perdida -- Pascuala: la madre entre los rayos -- Maruch: la abuela de las veredas -- Makal: la hija de los tambores.
- ISBN
- 0816519862
- 9780816519866
- LCCN
- 99006486
- OCLC
- ocm41368188
- 41368188
- SCSB-1124066
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library