Las aventuras de don Chipote, o cuando los pericos mamen / Daniel Venegas ; Introducion por Nicolas Kanellos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Venegas, Daniel.

Series:

Latino literature

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexican American literature (Spanish).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)

Other Title:

Aventuras de don Chipote

Cuando los pericos mamen

Place of Publication:

Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, 1999.

Summary:

Las aventuras de Don Chipote, o, Cuando los pericos mamen (The Adventures of Don Chipote, Or, When Parrots Suckle Their Young) is the first novel of Mexican immigration to the United States. Originally published in 1928, Don Chipote was written by journalist Daniel Venegas. Don Chipote is an unknown classic of American literature, dealing with the phenomenon that has made this nation great: immigration. It is the bittersweet tale of a greenhorn who abandons his plot of land (and a shack full of children) in Mexico to come to the United States and sweep the gold up from the streets. Together with his faithful companions, a tramp named Pluticarpio and a dog called Suffering Hunger, Don Chipote (whose name means "bump on the head") stumbles from one misadventure to another. Along the way, we learn what the Southwest was like during the 1920s: how Mexican laborers were treated like beasts of burden, and how they became targets for every shyster and lowlife looking to make a quick buck. The author, himself a former immigrant laborer, spins his tale using the Chicano vernacular of that time. Full of folklore and local color, Don Chipote is a must-read for scholars, students, and all who would become acquainted with the historical and economic roots, as well as with the humor, of the Southwestern Hispanic community. Kanellos provides an accessible and well-documented introduction to this important novel he discovered in 1984

Notes:

"Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication."

ISBN:

9781611926620

1611926629

9781611923599

161192359X

OCLC:

253691033