Las hijas de Juan : daughters betrayed / Josie Mendez-Negrete.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Méndez-Negrete, Josie.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Méndez-Negrete, Josie--Childhood and youth.

Méndez-Negrete, Josie.

Mexican American women--Biography.

Mexican American women.

Mexican Americans--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Migrant agricultural laborers--United States--Biography.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Incest victims--United States--Biography.

Incest victims.

Child sexual abuse--Case studies.

Child sexual abuse.

Mexican American families.

Mexican American women--Social conditions.

Women's rights--Case studies.

Women's rights.

Family violence--Case studies.

Family violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mexican American author Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.

Contents:

Prologue: Sin padre

Mexico lindo y querido = Dearest and beloved Mexico

A donde iran los muertos? Quien sabe a donde iran = Where will the dead go? Who knows where they will go

Buscando abrigo y no lo encontraran = Searching for shelter they will never find

Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido = So far from the land that gave me birth

She kept her head in a jar by the door = Mantuvo su cabeza en el jarron junto a la puerta

Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons, Bone by Bone

Songs Quoted in Text.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780822388395

0822388391

OCLC:

262341960