Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Autore di Il deserto delle morti silenziose: i femminicidi di Juarez
Sull'Autore
Alicia Gaspar De Alba is Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, English, and Women's Studies at UCLA. Her nine previous books encompass historical novels, poetry, short stories, and a cultural study of Chicano art. Alma Lpez is an artist, activist, and visual storyteller originally from Los mostra altro Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. They live in Los Angeles. mostra meno
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- female
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- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 14
- Utenti
- 374
- Popolarità
- #64,496
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 4
Conception is brought from Mexico to Massachusetts as a slave in the late 1600s. But on the ship on the way there, she is raped over and over. Once in New England, she has a baby, but the couple who bought her want a second child and haven’t been able to. So, while Conception tries to teach her daughter Spanish and some of her own culture, Rachel takes it upon herself to turn the child against her mother, and eventually takes Hanna (or Jeronima, depending if you ask Rachel or Conception). In a town not too far away, people are being accused of being witches, including Conception’s friend, Tituba.
This was good. There were parts that were a bit slower to read (literally), when Conception was writing letters, as the font was changed to look like handwriting. It does make me wonder if younger people will be able to read those parts of the book at all (if kids are no longer being taught cursive). It’s a tough book to read, though. I saw someone use the word “gritty”. Good way to describe it. Hanna/Jeronima drove me nuts sometimes! But I guess it’s hard for me to understand how easy it is for a child to be “brainwashed”, and that’s really what it amounted to.… (altro)