Dionicio Morales : a life in two cultures / by Dionicio Morales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morales, Dionicio, 1918-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morales, Dionicio, 1918-.

Morales, Dionicio.

Mexican American Opportunity Foundation.

Mexican Americans--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

Social conditions.

History.

United States.

California--Ventura County.

Mexican American Opportunity Foundation--History.

Mexican Americans--California--Ventura County--Social conditions.

Ventura County (Calif.)--Biography.

Ventura County (Calif.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

199 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Life in two cultures

Place of Publication:

Houston, Tex. : Piñata Books, 1997.

Summary:

The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena, edited by Amy Doherty, gathers for the first time Mena's stories written between 1913 and 1931 and published originally in such magazines as Century, American and Cosmopolitan.

In her short fiction Mena writes about Mexico for an Anglo-American audience, and skillfully confronts issues of gender, race and nation. Mena describes disparate aspects of life in Mexico at the turn of the century and addresses contemporary political and social issues, such as the influence of U.S. capitalism on Mexico, the oppressive Diaz regime and the increasingly active role of women during the Mexican Revolution.

Doherty's critical introduction to this volume provides newly recovered biographical information, including excerpts from Mena's letters to Century and her correspondence with D.H. Lawrence, as well as historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives on Mena's fiction.

ISBN:

1558852115

OCLC:

37187400