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Nothing, Nobody: The Voices Of the Mexico City Earthquake

1 review
Elena Poniatowska

Temple University Press, 1995

Must Read on Urban Poor
This book provides an excellent account of the Mexico city earthquate. Yet what is most poignant about it is that it describes the events through the eyes of the urban poor. IT is very detailed in description, and at times graphic. Some of the accounts are inspiring, while many of them reveal the true nature of the Mexican ruling class. If anyone is interested in urban poor in South America, this ...

Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (American Encounters/Global ...
Elena Poniatowska

Duke University Press, 2001

During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican ...

La casa en Mango Street

16 reviews
Sandra Cisneros

Vintage, 1994

Maravillosa
En este libro Esperanza Cordero relata su vida en la calle Mango donde ella vive con su hermana Nenny. En este lugar Esperanzo encontra muchas personas, muy interessantes y muy diversas. Por ejemplo hay Cathy, una chica mas rica. Tambien Esperanza and Nenny encontran Lucy y Rachel, dos hermanas. Ellas se hacen amigas y tienen muchas aventuras. L'historia esta bien escrita y conmovedora.Woman ...

Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela
Elena Poniatowska

Ediciones ERA, 2007

Tinisima

12 reviews
Elena Poniatowska

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1996

!VIVA TINISIMA!
Before reading this novel, what I knew of Tina Modotti came from a single Edward Weston photograph. A beautiful woman with penetrating eyes. Once I began to read "TINISIMA", I became utterly captivated with the life of Tina Modotti. Elena Poniatowska has a way of making the narrative read as if Tina Modotti herself were relating various happenings from her life to the reader, while the ...

La noche de Tlatelolco

4 reviews
Elena Poniatowska

Era, 1968

Killing of student protesters in Mexico, 1968
La noche de Tlatelolco is a book completely based on actual facts, concerning the mexican student massacre of 1968, days before the olympiad. A book mostly composed by quotes of people who were actually there and survived the attack of the government's armed forces (military and police departments). Poniatowska gathered all of these statements over a period of several years, finally resulting ...

Massacre in Mexico

2 reviews
Elena Poniatowska

University of Missouri Press, 1992

Forty years later and it's not over...
If you are interested in Mexico, deeply interested, this is an important book by Elena Poniatowska, one of the country's most distinguished writers. Four decades later, in the midst of a bloody drug war rife with accusations of military human rights abuses, torture and assassinations, the questions surrounding the 1968 massacre at Tlatelolco persist.

Here's to You, Jesusa!

3 reviews
Elena Poniatowska

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Enter the world of Mexico
Jesusa is a soldadera, a woman soldier, in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917. She describes her experiences in life from childhood to old age-- the choices she made and the problems she had-- the effects of chance and fate. She is the wild woman who drinks in bars, the suffering laborer and servant. She is a spiritualist right under the nose of the Virgin. She occupies a Mexico few tourists ...

Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution

2 reviews
Elena Poniatowska

Cinco Puntos Press, 2006

Tribute to the brave women who were active participants in the Mexican Revolution
Elena Poniatowska's "Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution" (Cinco Puntos Press, $12.95 paperback) demonstrates the riveting, almost hypnotic power of photographs. Poniatowska's text (translated from Spanish by David Dorado Romo) is wisely limited to about two dozen pages and acts as a frame for the remarkable black-and-white images of the brave women who fought on either side of the ...

The Skin of the Sky

1 review
Elena Poniatowska

University of New Mexico Press, 2006

skin of the sky
I have not received the item from Amazon yet but I already read the Spanish version, in fact I bought this English version to give it as a present to my colleges astronomers from UMass. I personally know Elena Poniatowska the author since she was married to Guillermo Haro My former boss at the INAOE (national institute for astrophysics...) in Mexico and the main character (as Lorenzo de Tena) ...

El tren pasa primero (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))
Elena Poniatowska

Punto de Lectura, 2007

Trinidad Pineda Chiñas from Oaxaca, Mexico learned at an early age that he was gifted, not with beauty or physical strength, but with willpower, the force of the spoken word and a constant eagerness for knowledge. The story of his life is a journey that starts with the whistle of a train, one that will take him to places he never imagined, where he will acquire infinite knowledge. It is also the place in which Trinidad's ardent speech to his ...

Las soldaderas (Fototeca)

1 review
Elena Poniatowska

Era - Mexico, 2000

A valuable look at women in Mexican Revolution
I've read this book as a reference for my thesis for my graduation, and it is one of the most important readings about women fighters in the Mexican Revolution. It is written by one of the most important Mexican writer and intellectual and she gives an insight of a side of Mexican history and society that helps to understand more about that country and its identity.

Rondas de la nina mala
Elena Poniatowska

ERA, 2008

Rondas de la nina mala es un libro inclasificable. Rondas, canciones infantiles, voces ingenuas venidas de lejos, ritmos de un recuerdo ligados a los ritmos de las rondas de la infancia, evocaciones que reviven en la cadencia del lenguaje. En estas paginas conviven la frescura y la irreverencia: es un libro crudo y tierno que se complace en escandalizar y se permite el sentimentalismo y la dureza. Aqui se tejen escenas de una infancia tormentosa ...

Questions and Swords: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution

1 review
Subcomandante Marcos

Cinco Puntos Press, 2001

Fabulous tool for teaching diversity of culture and belief
As an elementary school teacher I am always on the lookout for ways to teach my students that the world is made up of a wide variety of peoples, individuals and belief systems. This book has been one of the most valuable parts of my teaching and has assisted me in opening the minds of young people.

La piel del cielo

4 reviews
Elena Poniatowska

Alfaguara, 2001

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I really liked this book because it shows the real religious, political, academic, and social life in Mexico. The way details are exposed and how real the characters are make the book very interesting.

Lilus Kikus and Other Stories

1 review
Elena Poniatowska, Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez

University of New Mexico Press, 2005

a great introduction by professor Elizabeth Martinez
Aside from Lilus Kikus being a great novel by prominent Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, professor Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez does a maginificent job introduccing the English reader to Poniatowska and the history and impact of Lilus Kikus in her introduction. The introduction itself is a facinating read to anybody interested in Elena and her history as a writer. I strongly recommend this book ...

The Edge of Time: Photographs of Mexico by Mariana Yampolsky (Southwestern & Mexican Photography Series, ...

3 reviews
Mariana Yampolsky

University of Texas Press, 1998

Black and white photographs of people and customs of Mexico.
Superb black and white photographs by a premier photographer, displaying the lives of ordinary people and the native customs of various parts of Mexico. A real bargain at the price.

Hasta no verte Jesus mio

1 review
Elena Poniatowska

Ediciones ERA, 2007

Novela testimonial con mucho humor
Hasta no Verte Jesus Mio, es la historia contada por una mujer comun y corriente. Elena Ponietowski hace un trabajo excelente con la literatura testimonial dando a conocer la historia de Mexico. Jesusa Palancares ,la protagonista, es una mujer tipica mexicana en en un mundo donde el machismo sobresale y en otros aspectos, ella es feminista, con gracia y mucho humor. This novel is a most. It ...

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