Killer Crónicas : Bilingual Memories
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0299202240
ISBN-13
9780299202248
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint
University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 8th, 2010
Print length
174 Pages
Weight
294 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.40 x 1.00 cms
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A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces.
A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author''s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional ''crónica'' make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chávez-Silverman. Includes a chapter that was awarded first prize in El Andar magazine''s Chicano Literary Excellence Contest in the category of personal memoir.
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