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The book of archives and other stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico / A. Gabriel Melendez ; foreword by Robert Con Davis-Undiano.
Van Pelt Library PQ7079.2.M45 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meléndez, A. Gabriel (Anthony Gabriel), author.
- Davis, Robert Con, 1948- author of foreword.
- Series:
- Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ; volume 18.
- Chicana & chicano visions of the Américas ; volume 18
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--New Mexico--Mora County--Fiction.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--New Mexico--Mora County--Ethnic identity.
- Mexican Americans--New Mexico--Mora County--Social life and customs.
- Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Mexican Americans--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Ethnicity.
- New Mexico--Mora County.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 232 pages; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish.
- Summary:
- Collection of forty-two short stories and vignettes that together paint a portrait of the Mora Valley, the real-life northern New Mexico setting for a group of small nuevomexicano villages. The author partially based his text on historical information and the oral tradition of tales about healers, ranch owners, archivists, soldiers, scribes, witches, warlocks, penitentes (lay religious men), priests and others.
- Contents:
- The Book of Archives
- In the Shadow of La Jicarita 3
- Petra's Agony 5
- The Book of Archives 6
- Time Grew in the Fertile Earth 8
- Joyful Sorrows, Sorrowful Joys 9
- General Carne 10
- The Fire in Manuel Cortez's Belly 12
- Mora Is Bombed 13
- Rebirth 15
- Brotherhood 16
- Witches and Warlocks 17
- Old Man Vilmas and the Black Poet García 18
- No One Bathes Twice in the Same River 24
- James Meline's Letter 25
- Sebastiana 26
- The Ballad of a Dying Cibolero 28
- Father Avel 31
- The Child Julia 34
- The Woman Julia 35
- Little Sarah, the Half Indian 36
- Julia and Her Suitors 37
- Little Sister Romancita's Conjuring 45
- In Your Spare Time, Make Some Mud Bricks 47
- Oh, What Times, Sir Simon! 53
- Waldo B. Catrine and His Cronies 55
- Mariano Sosa 56
- A New Century 60
- Opening to a Previous Life 68
- Pablo, "the Shiftless" 72
- Don Eugenio's Oxen 73
- Crucita and the Black Bears 76
- No More Witches, Perhaps 78
- A Hundred Years of Fasting 79
- Government Cheese 81
- Coreligionists 81
- Oversease 82
- Francisco Aguas 83
- "Deputy Pete" 85
- The Toad Man 87
- Ranchers in Fancy Ties 91
- The Ante, Six Bets on the Infinite 98
- Litany of The Book of Archives 113
- El Libro de los Archivos
- Sombras de la Jicarita 119
- Petra en su agonía 121
- El Libro de los Archivos 122
- El tiempo crecía en la fecunda tierra 124
- Querencias y dolencias 125
- El general Carne 126
- El rancor de Manuel Cortez 128
- Mora es bombardeado 129
- Renacimiento 131
- Fraternidad 132
- Brujas y hechiceros 133
- El Viejo Vilmas y el Negropoeta García 134
- Los años se siguen, pero no se parecen 140
- La carta de James Meline 141
- La Sebastiana 142
- El corridor del cibolero moribundo 144
- El Padre Avel 147
- La niña Julia 150
- Julia, la mujer 151
- Sarita, la genízara 152
- Julia y sus pretendientes 153
- Los polvos y conjuros de 'mana Romancita 161
- Mientras descansas, haz adobes 163
- ¡Ay, qué tiempos, señor don Simón! 168
- Waldo B. Catrine y sus secuaces 170
- Mariano Sosa 172
- El siglo Nuevo 176
- Por la rendija de una vida previa 184
- Pablo, "el-zángano" 188
- Los bueyes de don Eugenio 189
- Crucita y los osos negros 192
- Se acabaron las brujas, quizás 194
- Cien años de ayunos 195
- Queso federal 197
- Coreligionisatas 197
- Oversís 198
- Don Cisco Aguas 199
- "Pite Chotas" 201
- El hombre sapo 203
- Los rancheros de corbata 207
- El alce, seis apuestas con el infinito 214
- Letanía del Libro de los Archivos 229.
- Contains:
- Meléndez, A. Gabriel (Anthony Gabriel). Works. Selections. English.
- Meléndez, A. Gabriel (Anthony Gabriel). Works. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9780806155845
- 0806155841
- OCLC:
- 962008179
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