With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries /
With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries /
edited by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Learning to read / Learned to read at my momma's knee / La mees chancla / On reading: books in my life / Holy scripture / Storm's impact one for the books / Gift of poetry, gift of reading / The bookcase / Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Un juego de libros añejos / A set of old books / Sea fever / Reading Thomas Hardy / They say that mejicanos don't read / In the stacks / Los libros de mi padre / My father's books / Reading saved me from the chaos / The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Nena / Revisiting Nancy Drew / Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction -- Fernando Vázquez / Lupe Rodríguez / Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction -- El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Alma Ester Cortés -- Argelia Flores -- Carlos Cumpián -- Carmen Tafolla -- Eliud Martínez -- Ever Rodríguez -- Veronica Flores-Paniagua -- Irma Flores-Manges -- Lucía de Anda Vázquez -- Anthony Macías -- Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- Maria Kelson -- María Teresa Márquez -- Minerva Daniel -- Monica Hanna -- Shanti A. Sánchez -- Shanti A. Sánchez -- Shonnon Gutiérrez -- Veronica Ortega -- Vito de la Cruz -- Beth Hernandez-Jason -- Cuauhtémoc B. Díaz -- Helen Fabela Chávez -- Carlos Morton -- A. Gabriel Meléndez -- Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez -- Eleanor B. Adams -- Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes.
9780826354778
Mexican American authors--Books and reading.
American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
Mexican Americans--Books and reading.
Books and reading--United States.
Book collecting--United States.
Electronic Books.
Z1039 / .W584 2014
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Learning to read / Learned to read at my momma's knee / La mees chancla / On reading: books in my life / Holy scripture / Storm's impact one for the books / Gift of poetry, gift of reading / The bookcase / Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Un juego de libros añejos / A set of old books / Sea fever / Reading Thomas Hardy / They say that mejicanos don't read / In the stacks / Los libros de mi padre / My father's books / Reading saved me from the chaos / The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Nena / Revisiting Nancy Drew / Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction -- Fernando Vázquez / Lupe Rodríguez / Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction -- El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Alma Ester Cortés -- Argelia Flores -- Carlos Cumpián -- Carmen Tafolla -- Eliud Martínez -- Ever Rodríguez -- Veronica Flores-Paniagua -- Irma Flores-Manges -- Lucía de Anda Vázquez -- Anthony Macías -- Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- Maria Kelson -- María Teresa Márquez -- Minerva Daniel -- Monica Hanna -- Shanti A. Sánchez -- Shanti A. Sánchez -- Shonnon Gutiérrez -- Veronica Ortega -- Vito de la Cruz -- Beth Hernandez-Jason -- Cuauhtémoc B. Díaz -- Helen Fabela Chávez -- Carlos Morton -- A. Gabriel Meléndez -- Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez -- Eleanor B. Adams -- Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes.
9780826354778
Mexican American authors--Books and reading.
American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
Mexican Americans--Books and reading.
Books and reading--United States.
Book collecting--United States.
Electronic Books.
Z1039 / .W584 2014