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The History of Latin American Print Culture in the Colonial Period: 16th and 17th Centuries Reference library
Blanca López de Mariscal
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...mexicana y castellana. Compuesto por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina , de la orden del seraphico padre Sant Francisco. México: en casa de Antonio de Espinosa, 1565. Courtesy of Biblioteca Cervantina, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Readings for Spaniards and Mestizos Edifying Works, Books of Sermons, and Lives of Saints. It is important to clarify that a few of the books first printed in Mexico did not have the education of Indians as an objective. Some of the works that issued from the press focused on Spanish settlers and mestizos as...
Print Culture and Censorship from Colonial Latin America to the US Latina/o Presence in the 19TH Century Reference library
Matthew J. K.Hill
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...class-based perspective was reflected in the print culture that developed among them. Figure 9. A lector in a cigar factory in Tampa, Florida, 1909. Courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collections. Periodicals were by far the most important form of print matter in circulation in Tampa and Key West, due in large part to the economic position of the workers and their inability to afford books. While some of the Florida publications, such as José D. Poyo’s El Yara ( 1878–1898 ), attempted to keep their content within the realm of nationalist,...
Maya Youth Literatures in the Diaspora Reference library
Floridalma Boj Lopez
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...run, then they need to run. Gaby awakes from the dream startled. The following night Gaby has a nightmare that the familiar home seen before is actually on fire ( Figure 2 ). Figure 1. Las Aventuras de Gaby . La Comunidad Ixim. Courtesy of La Comunidad Ixim. Figure 2. Las Aventuras de Gaby . La Comunidad Ixim. Courtesy of La Comunidad Ixim. The inclusion of these issues is critically important to ensuring that Maya children have a sense of genealogy that includes state violence as visually represented by migration and the familiar yet geographically...
Salinas, Raúl Reference library
Louis G. Mendoza
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...( Figure 1 ). This music, along with the Mexican corrido, conjunto , and orquesta traditions, was an important cultural and artistic influence in his life, which would eventually manifest in his music (he played saxophone) and poetry. Figure 1. Salinas at age fourteen. Courtesy of Red Salmon Archives. Salinas’s defiant countercultural attitude toward those who presumed that his ethnic background, his dress, his body art, and his use of the pachuco argot Caló justified treating him as an intellectual or social inferior placed him at odds with school...
US Central Americans in Art and Visual Culture Reference library
Kency Cornejo
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...numerous messages, proving that a single photograph in a poster can be appropriated for multiple political purposes. Figure 2. Organización en Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Asia, África, y América Latina poster. Rafel Enríquez Vega, Basta de Represión en Guatemala , 1980. Courtesy of Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American Political Posters, University of New Mexico. Added elements in political posters (such as texts, graphics, and images) that frame a main text or image produce the literary concept of paratextuality , which can alter the reception...
Latina and Chicana Butch/Femme in Literature and Culture Reference library
Stacy I. Macías
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...Mama Chocha complicates Chicana/Latina femme representation by extending the possible sexual subjectivities with which a femme may identify and that may be detached from butch desire. 32 Figure 1. Adelina Anthony as La Profesora Mama Chocha in “Mastering Sex and Tortillas!”Courtesy of Adelina Anthony. In Mastering ’s second act, Anthony introduces the old-school, Chicana butch character Special Agent Papi Duro, who enters the stage wearing a trench coat, a fedora hat, and a gun holster filled with dildos. As an FBI—Fearless Bucha Investigator—Papi...
Indigenous Manuscripts of Ancient and Early Colonial Mesoamerica: 13th–16th Centuries Reference library
Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
..., pictorial books, kept in homes, temples, and libraries, guided people on their spiritual and everyday paths, recounted histories, and held the knowledge of communities. Writing in Mesoamerica, both before and after the arrival of Europeans, was connected to the elite and to orality, the art of speaking well. Catholic friars and conquistadors recognized these books as repositories of the sacred knowledge of indigenous religions, and in their attempt to eradicate these beliefs, set fire to entire libraries and personal holdings. Only fourteen books are known...
Border and la frontera in the US-Mexico Borderlands Reference library
Alicia Arrizón
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...endure the hazards of the contact zone everyday (see Figure 1 ). Figure 1. Road sign depicting the silhouette of a mother, father, and little girl running and the word “ caution ,” on a stretch of US Interstate 5 near the US-Mexican border in San Diego, California, 2005. Courtesy of Olga Vásquez. As illustrated in the road sign, the silhouette of a mother, father, and little girl running and the word “ caution ” are intended to warn drivers that they may encounter people trying to cross lanes of freeway as they flee to escape la migra . In response...
Seguín, Juan Nepomuceno Reference library
Jesús F. de la Teja
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...1. Statue of Juan N. Seguín by Erik Christianson located in the main plaza of Seguin, Texas. Dedicated on October 28, 2000, the equestrian pose represents Seguín at the time of the Texas Revolution. The granite base of the statue details Seguín’s career and accomplishments. Courtesy of Jesús F. de la Teja. Father Miguel Hidalgo’s revolt of 1810 , which by the mid-1820s was already considered the birth of Mexican independence, was not really about overthrowing the Spanish monarchy but about establishing home rule. Hidalgo and his associates resented that...
