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Sto caricando le informazioni... Song of the Hummingbird (edizione 1996)di Graciela Limón (Autore)
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HTML: From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Hummingbirdâ??or HuitzitzilÃn in her native Nahuatlâ??recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. She experienced first-hand the wonder of gods' arrivalâ??those bearded, armored men who descended from their vessels on horsebackâ??and the brutal devastation of her land and her people. She witnessed the obliteration of Tenochtitlán and suffered the loss of her identity, being forced to discard her traditional garb, to speak a language foreign to her tongue, and to forsake her ancestral gods. Expressing a confidence and freedom that women have strived for centuries to attain, HuitzitzilÃn passionately relates her tale to Father Benito, the priest who seeks to confess and convert her, to offer her an absolution she neither needs nor wants. Instead, she forces him to see the conquest, for the first time, through the eyes of the conquered. In Song of the Hummingbird, Limón pays homage to the pre-Columbian woman, celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in the face of cataclysm and mourns our collective loss of treasures more valuable than all th Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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