Story of Stories

Story of Stories

The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Dona Ramona Gonzalez

Ramirez, Cristina Devereaux; Cantu, Norma Elia

Trinity University Press,U.S.

10/2024

322

Mole

Inglês

9781595349965

15 a 20 dias

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Table of Contents




Prologue 4

Introduction 10

Chapter One

A Trenza of Voices 16

Chapter Two

Un cuento de cuentos: A Story of Stories 33

Chapter Three

Recovering the Fading History of a Far West Texas Border Barrio: Chihauhuita 60

Cuentos del barrio: Stories from the barrio, Part I 87

Por vida de estas santas cruces yo vivi en estos barrios

by Ramona Gonzalez 89

By the life of these holy crosses I lived in these barrios

English translation by Neil Devereaux 139

Chapter Four

Gonzalez Grocery: El corazon del barrio 192

Cuentos del barrio: Stories from the barrio, Part II 204

Mi Tiendita by Ramona Gonzalez 206




My Little Store English translation by Neil Devereaux 246

Chapter Five

Dona Ramona's Barrio Literacy: Poems and Fables for Children 288

El Sol (The Sun)




293




El vuelo (The Flight)




295

El Pajaro Cenzontle y e1 Conde (The Mocking Bird and the Count) 296

Acknowledgements 299

Bibliography 300

Notes




305




Prologue
Mexican American, Women's Studies, Border Studies, Texas History, Texas Literary History, El Paso, Chihuahuita, Ellis Island of the Southwest, West Texas, Barrios, Preservation, Historical Places