Uncivil rights and other stories / Nash Candelaria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Candelaria, Nash.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

128 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Uncivil rights & other stories

Place of Publication:

Tempe, Ariz. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, [1998]

Summary:

This latest book of seven short stories, also set primarily in the Southwest, explores border culture, social issues, relationships, and the experience of living in an unwilling hybrid culture such as that in the U.S., in prose which is as delightful as it is precise. "Alfonso Pena was a wrinkle of a man, " begins the title story. "Not just the creases around his eyes, the corners of his mouth, or his neck Not just his clothes. But everything about him. His life was an unneat series of furrows and rumples that were chaotic and irretrievably fixed. No iron was hot enough, no steam press powerful enough to smooth them out." Without "smoothing out" the fictional realities of the lives he creates, Candelaria takes his readers with him on a journey into the "series of furrows and rumples" that make up our "unneat" existence.

Contents:

Uncivil rights

The dancing school

A whole lot of justice

Dear Rosita

The border

Family Thanksgiving

Radio waves.

ISBN:

0927534835

OCLC:

39456042