Sweet Diamond Dust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sweet Diamond Dust write by Rosario Ferré. This book was released on 1989. Sweet Diamond Dust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Doña Elvira sang her beloved "Maldito Amor" frequently after she met and married Don Julio and he became administrator of the Diamond Dust Sugar Mills. With the birth of Ubaldino, the dynasty was founded and the family was thrown into the turbulence of Puerto Rico's early twentieth-century history. The author brings forth a vibrant cast of colorful and often eccentric characters all under the sway of "Maldito Amor." In addition to the title story are three others richly peopled with her unique vision of island life.
Sweet Diamond Dust
Sweet Diamond Dust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sweet Diamond Dust write by Rosario Ferre. This book was released on 1996-10-01. Sweet Diamond Dust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in this highly provacative, profound, and delightfully readable collection of stories. Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor ("Cursed Love"), Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by turns lyrical and wickedly satiric. In this tale the De La Valle family's secrets, ambitions, and passions, interwoven with the fate of the local sugar mill, are recounted by various relatives, friends, and servants. As the characters struggle under the burden of privilege, the story, permeated with haunting echoes of Puerto Rico's own turbulent history, becomes a splendid allegory for a nation's past. The three accompanying stories each follow the lives of the descendants of the De La Valle family, making the book a drama in four parts, raising troubling issues of race, religion, freedom, and sex, with Ferre's trademark irony and startling imagery.
"Maldito Amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust"
"Maldito Amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Maldito Amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust" write by Angela F. Martin. This book was released on 2000. "Maldito Amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The House on the Lagoon
The House on the Lagoon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House on the Lagoon write by Rosario Ferré. This book was released on 2014-04-29. The House on the Lagoon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the National Book Award: “A family saga in the manner of Gabriel García Márquez,” set in Puerto Rico, from an extraordinary storyteller (The New York Times Book Review). This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintín Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families—and, by extension, their homeland—in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself. Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferré crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: “Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you’re looking through.” A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints, The House on the Lagoon also grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.
Latino Dreams
Latino Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latino Dreams write by Paul Allatson. This book was released on 2002. Latino Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A welcome addition to the fields of Latino and (trans-)American cultural and literary studies, Latino Dreams focuses on a selection of Latino narratives, published between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, that may be said to traffic in the U.S.A.'s attendant myths and governing cultural logics. The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention--Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Sáenz--along with underattended texts from more renowned writers--Rosario Ferré, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Latino Dreams takes a transcultural approach in order to raise questions of subaltern subordination and domination, and the resistant capacities of cultural production. The analysis explores how the selected narratives deploy specific narrative tactics, and a range of literary and other cultural capital, in order to question and reform the U.S.A.'s imaginary coordinates. In these texts, moreover, national imperatives are complicated by recourse to feminist, queer, panethnic, postcolonial, or transnational agendas. Yet the analysis also recognizes instances in which the counter-narrative will is frustrated: the narratives may provide signs of the U.S.A.'s hegemonic resilience in the face of imaginary disavowal.
