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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780826318282 ISBN: 0826318282 Label: University of New Mexico Press Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: August 01, 1997 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Studio: University of New Mexico Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Canicula--the dog days--a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cantu's fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, it also represents a time between childhood and an as yet unknown adulthood. Actual snapshots and the author's re-created memories allow readers to experience the pivotal events of this world--births, deaths, injuries, fiestas, rites of passage. This popular book won the 1995 Premio Aztlan and is now available in paperback for the first time. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Better than expected!!I'm not a fan of CHICANA literature, MEXICAN AMERICAN literature, and other related genres. However, I had to read this for one of Professor Cantu's classes and I actually enjoyed the book. I finished it in one evening. It's an interesting and dramatic fictionalized memoir the has earned a spot on my bookshelf as one of my top books. Rating:  - A Chicana Voice in the WildernessChicano/a Literature is here to stay, my xenophobic friend, so get used to it. Rating:  - Just a bad book...When I was forced to read Ms. Cantu's book for her class I opened it with an open mind and was at the beginning interested in what she had to write about. Boy was I mistaken and regretful when I wasted 3 hours of my life reading this. She jumps around from different points in her life and adds fiction when it gets to boring. Save yourself time and money and don't buy her book while in turn supporting anymore of this nonsense called "Chicano literature". Rating: - Deceptively complex bookCantu addresses the harsh realities of racism, poverty and Viet Nam without bashing you over the head with strident platitudes. The framework structure coupled with family album snaphots make the book fascinating and truly accessible for a variety of readers. One need not have grown up in los dos Laredos or along the U.S.--Mexican border to identify with this work; one need only be aware of the variety of borders constructed or imposed upon our lives. Rating: - A powerful account of a Chicana/o community in TexasThis is a beautifully written memoir by one of our best Chicana writers. Seizing upon Roland Barthes's writings on photography, Cantu reconstructs her childhood on the U.S./Mexican border, teaching us that the border itself is an artificial barrier. This is a moving story of an American family that has worked hard and sacrificed much. We can only hope that the rest of America will recognize sooner than later the enormous contributions to U.S. history made by Mexican Americans. 
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