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Solo somos sombras / Pergentino José.
LIBRA PQ7298.42.O84 S65 2023
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- José, Pergentino, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Narrativa (Editorial Almadía)
- Narrativa
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Zapotec Indians--Mexico--Social conditions--Fiction.
- Zapotec Indians.
- Smallpox--Mexico--Fiction.
- Smallpox.
- Genre:
- novellas.
- Novellas.
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Primera edición.
- Place of Publication:
- Ciudad de México [Mexico City] : Almadía, 2023.
- Language Note:
- En español = In Spanish.
- Summary:
- "En medio de un brote de viruela que amenaza con diezmar la población de una comunidad zapoteca, Lisnit y Néstor deben luchar para hacer posible el amor que se profesan. Víctimas de la violencia estatal, los amantes lidian con los traumas de la ira infligida sobre sus cuerpos y su memoria. Después de Hormigas rojas, su celebrada colección de cuentos, Pergentino José ha escrito una primera novela en la que el español, inoculado de una lengua a otra -el zapoteco-, adquiere una vitalidad y un ritmo únicos. Construido a partir de elipsis y fragmentos, Solo somos sombras es un libro sobre la opacidad de la memoria, las veladuras que el tiempo corre sobre ella y el destino de evanescencia al que nos condena. Con una estrategia estilística tan arriesgada como precisa, José nos ofrece los contornos de una trama intensa; la sombra en la que, gracias a su densidad y lirismo, somos capaces de reconocer temas urgentes para nuestras sociedades: el pasado colonial, el desplazamiento de comunidades enteras para la extracción de recursos naturales, la aniquilación de cosmogonías no capitalistas y el trauma del despojo y la miseria que estos procesos conllevan." -- page 4 of the cover
- "In the midst of a smallpox outbreak that threatens to decimate the population of a Zapotec community, Lisnit and Néstor must fight to make the love they profess possible. Victims of state violence, the lovers deal with the traumas of anger inflicted on their bodies and their memories. After Red Ants, his celebrated collection of short stories, Pergentino José has written a first novel which Spanish, inoculated from one language to another - Zapotec - acquires a unique vitality and rhythm in. Built from ellipses and fragments, We are only shadows is a book about the opacity of memory, the veils that time passes over it and the destiny of evanescence which it condemns us to. With a stylistic strategy as risky as it is precise, José offers us the outlines of an intense plot; the shadow which, thanks to its density and lyricism, we are able to recognize urgent issues for our societies in: the colonial past, the displacement of entire communities for the extraction of natural resources, the annihilation of non-capitalist cosmogonies and the trauma of dispossession and the misery that these processes entail." -- cataloger's translation
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9786078851300
- 6078851306
- OCLC:
- 1407109476
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