Serafina s Stories New Mexico s master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth century Santa Fe In January a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspirin
New Mexico s master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth century Santa Fe In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is revealed as a young woman Educated by the friarsNew Mexico s master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth century Santa Fe In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is revealed as a young woman Educated by the friars in her pueblo s mission church, Serafina speaks beautiful Spanish and surprises the Governor with her fearlessness and intelligence.The two strike a bargain She will entertain the Governor by telling him a story If he likes her story, he will free one of the prisoners Like Scheherezade, who prevented her royal husband from killing her by telling him stories, Serafina keeps the Governor so entertained with her versions of Nuevo Mexicano cuentos that he spares the lives of all her fellow prisoners.Some of the stories Serafina tells will have a familiar ring to them, for they came from Europe and were New Mexicanized by the Spanish colonists Some have Pueblo Indian plots and characters and it is this blending of the two cultures that is Anaya s true subject.
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Best Read [Rudolfo Anaya] ↠ Serafina's Stories || [Christian Book] PDF Æ
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Best Read [Rudolfo Anaya] ↠ Serafina's Stories || [Christian Book] PDF Æ
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Rudolfo Anaya lives and breathes the landscape of the Southwest It is a powerful force, full of magic and myth, integral to his writings Anaya, however, is a native Hispanic fascinated by cultural crossings unique to the Southwest, a combination of oldSpain and New Spain, of Mexico with Mesoamerica and the anglicizing forces of the twentieth century Rudolfo Anaya is widely acclaimed as the founder of modern Chicano literature According to the New York Times, he is the most widely read author in Hispanic communities, and sales of his classic Bless Me, Ultima 1972 have surpassed 360,000, despite the fact that none of his books have been published originally by New York publishing houses His works are standard texts in Chicano studies and literature courses around the world, and he has done than perhaps any other single person to promote publication of books by Hispanic authors in this country With the publication of his novel, Albuquerque 1992 ,Newsweek has proclaimed him a front runner in what is better called not the new multicultural writing, but the new American writing His most recent volume, published in 1995, is Zia Summer I ve always used the technique of the cuento I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio from unm wrtgsw anayamlandgale.cengage free_reso