For a grasp of human nature applicable to the West: Robert Wright's The Moral Animal and [William Kittredge]'s The Nature of Generosity. For an understanding of deep-time continental history and what the fate of previous empires in the American West can teach us: Charles Mann's 1491, Jared Diamond's Collapse, and David Stuart's Anasazi America. For a sense of the career of the greatest public servant in Western history, Donald Worster's River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Po well. For a critical look at how an activist federal government might tackle a great environmental crisis: Worster's Dust Bowl, and Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy of global warming novels, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting. For the best modern understanding of Western history ...
...Mother Tongue by Demetria Martínez. Making Certain it Go...
Ayuda bilinge por telefono Ahora existe una manera fcil de encontrar ayuda para todo, desde albergues a cuidado medico, sin que tener que ir de agencia en agencia buscando el lugar correcto. United Way del Condado de Santa Fe ha iniciado un servicio telefnico por medio del cual especialistas bilinges ayudan a los que marcan 2-1-1, refiriendolos a las agencias sociales apropiadas segn sus necesidades.
...Demetria Martinez en la radio. La escritora Demetria Martneez, autora de Mother Tongue, leer de su nueva publicacin Confessions of...
... connected to the system that turned her mother into a caricature, and led to her suicide. She cro...This novel is somewhat reminiscent of Demetria Martinez's novel, Mother Tongue (1994), in which a...
... with a lie, saying I have to call my mother. The number 0 on the telephone is an open mouth, t...I rejoined the human race. . Demetria Martinez is the author of three collections of poeetry and a novel, "Mother Tongue," set during the Sanctuary movement. A religion wr...
In this essay, I revisit the production of Chicana/Latina feminist narratives identified with anti-imperialist struggles and hemispheric solidarity movements in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s.1 Through their texts, transfronterista feminists such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo, Carole Fernández, Graciela Limón, Demetria Martínez, Cherríe Moraga, Lourdes Portillo, Nina Serrano, Alma Villanueva, and Helena María Viramontes, among others, not only challenged U.S. hegemony in the Western hemisphere, but also resisted the enforcement of multiple borders across the Americas.2 In the process, they transnationalized Chicana/Latina struggles, histories, discourses, and feminisms beyond the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In an act of solidarity, Saldívar-Hull concludes Feminism on the Border...
... Martínez's semi-autobiographical novel, Mother Tongue, this essay seeks to shift the primary focu...
[Demetria Martinez] won the 2006 International Latino Book Award for Best Biography for Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana.
...She is also the author of Mother Tongue, winner of a Western States Book Award for ...
The essay is one of many in her new collection, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana, that mines the issues of cultural identity, as well as politics, poetry and religion.
... is the author of the award-winning novel Mother Tongue, based in part on her federal indictment an...
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