With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries / edited by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American authors--Books and reading.

Mexican American authors.

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Mexican Americans--Books and reading.

Mexican Americans.

Books and reading--United States.

Books and reading.

Book collecting--United States.

Book collecting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this collection, Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences.

Contents:

Introduction ; Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Alma Ester Cortes ; Learning to read / Argelia Flores ; Learned to read at my momma's knee / Carlos Cumpián ; La mees chancla / Carmen Tafolla ; On reading: books in my life / Eliud Martínez ; Holy scripture / Ever Rodríguez ; Storm's impact one for the books / Veronica Flores-Paniagua ; Gift of poetry, gift of reading / Irma Flores-Manges ; The bookcase / Lucía de Anda Vázquez ; Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Anthony Macías ; Un juego de libros añejos / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas ; A set of old books / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas ; Sea fever / Maria Kelson ; Reading Thomas Hardy / María Teresa Márquez ; They say that mejicanos don't read / Minerva Daniel ; In the stacks / Monica Hanna ; Los libros de mi padre / Shanti A. Sánchez ; My father's books / Shanti A. Sánchez ; Reading saved me from the chaos / Shonnon Gutierrez ; The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Veronica Ortega ; Nena / Vito de la Cruz ; Revisiting Nancy Drew / Beth Hernandez-Jason ; Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction ; Fernando Vázquez / Cuauhtemoc B. Díaz ; Lupe Rodríguez / Helen Fabela Chávez ; Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction ; El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Carlos Morton ; Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / A. Gabriel Melendez ; The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez ; Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Eleanor B. Adams ; Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826354778

0826354777

OCLC:

880147899