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The woman who lost her soul and other stories / Jovita González ; edited, with an introduction, by Sergio Reyna.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.I6947 A6 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mireles, Jovita González, 1904-1983.
- Series:
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Fiction.
- Mexican Americans.
- Manners and customs.
- Mexico.
- Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Texas.
- Mexico--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Animals--Fiction.
- Animals.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 157 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- The writer Jovita Gonzalez was long a member -- and ultimately served as president -- of the Texas Folklore Society, which strove to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by Gonzalez in periodicals such as Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time.
- Sergio Reyna has brought together more than thirty narratives by Gonzalez and arranged them into Animal Tales (such as "The Mescal-Drinking Horse"); Tales of Humans ("The Bullet-Swallower"); Tales of Popular Customs ("Shelling Corn by Moonlight"); Religious Tales ("The Guadalupana Vine"); Tales of Mexican Ancestors ("Ambrosio the Indian"); and Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasure ("The Woman Who Lost Her Soul"). Reyna also provides a helpful introduction that succinctly surveys the author's life and work, analyzing her writings within their historical and cultural contexts.
- Contents:
- Animal Tales
- The Mocking Bird 2
- The Woodpecker 4
- The Paisano 7
- The Cicada 9
- The Cardinal 11
- The Mescal-Drinking Horse 14
- Tales of Humans
- Tio Patricio 22
- Juan, el Loco 28
- Don Jose Maria 30
- Don Tomas 34
- Pedro The Hunter 38
- The Mail Carrier 40
- The Perennial Lover 42
- Tio Pancho Malo 44
- The Bullet-Swallower 47
- The Philosopher of the Brush Country 56
- Among My People. Border Folklore 64
- Among My People 70
- Religious Tales
- El Cardo Santo (The Thistle) 80
- The Guadalupana Vine 82
- The Dove 84
- El Cenizo 85
- Tales of Popular Customs
- Shelling Corn by Moonlight 88
- Border Folklore 91
- Tales of Mexican Ancestors
- The Gift of the Pitahaya 102
- Ambrosio the Indian 104
- The First Cactus Blossom 105
- Shades of the Tenth Muses 108
- Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasures
- Legends of Ghosts and Treasures 118
- The Devil on the Border 126
- Without a Soul 135
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul 141
- Nana Chita 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx).
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 1558853138
- OCLC:
- 44518010
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