Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters
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Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters

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  2. English
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Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters

About this book

This is a rarity in contemporary writing, a truly bilingual enterprise, as in Susana Chávez-Silverman's previous memoir, Killer Crónicas. Chávez-Silverman switches between English and Spanish, creating alinguistic mestizaje that is still a surprise encounter in the world of letters today, and the author forms one of a small but growing band of writers to embrace bilingualism as a literary force. Also like Killer Crónicas, each chapter in Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles is a "crónica," a vignette that began as intimate diary entries and e-mails and letters to lovers, friends, and ghosts from the past. These episodic chapters follow the Chávez-Silverman's personal history, from California to South Africa and Australia and back, from unfathomable loss to deeply felt joy. Readers drawn into this witty book will confront their own conceptions of boundaries, borders, languages, memories, and spaces.
 
Honorable Mention, Best Biography in Spanish or Bilingual, International Latino Book Awards

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Information

Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780299235239
Print ISBN
9780299235246
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Cartografía Humana/Star Maps Crónica
  5. I. Diary Inside/Color Local Crónica
  6. II. Montalvo Diary
  7. III. On Going Back Crónica
  8. IV. San Francisco Transcript/Diary
  9. V. In My Country Crónica
  10. VI. San Francisco Days Crónica
  11. Un Pico (De)presión Diptych
  12. IX. Oda a la Ambigüedad Crónica
  13. X. Mountainess/Montañ(os)a Crónica
  14. XI. South Coast Plaza Crónica
  15. XII. I Want the Wrapper Crónica
  16. XIII. Mini Geography Lesson Crónica
  17. XIV. Arañita Cobriza Crónica
  18. XV. Westside Desilusión Crónica
  19. There Was Blood Diptych
  20. XVIII. Currawong Crónica
  21. XIX. Por Montalvo Crónica
  22. XX. Alchemy Armisteadiana Crónica
  23. XXI. Tuberose Frenesí Crónica
  24. XXII. Solstice/Shamanic Magia Crónica
  25. XXIII. (Almost) Milagros Crónica
  26. XXIV. Todavía Wild (at Heart) Crónica
  27. Afterword: Linguistic Perspectives on Code-Switching

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