Comadres
Subtitle: Hispanic Women of the Rio Puerco Valley
Edition: Eng-Spa edition
Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780826317575
Subjects: Rio Puerco Valley (Rio Arriba County-Socorro County, N.M.); United States - State & Local; New Mexico; Hispanic Americans In The U.S.; Women In The U.S.; Women's Studies; Social Science; History - General History; Social life and customs; History: American; Rio Puerco Valley (Rio Arriba County-Socorro County); Minority Studies - Ethnic American; Ethnic Studies - General; Hispanic American women
Description: Comadres celebrates a way of life, a generation of women, and a regional language whose contribution to New Mexican history and culture has long been overlooked. Twelve women pay tribute to Hispana experiences on the farms and ranches of the Rio Puerco Valley during the first decades of statehood. Branding cows, birthing children, washing sheets, and building walls, the hands of these women shaped the world in which they lived; their stories make an ongoing legacy of culture and lifeways. García transcribes the women's remembrances in a printed regional Spanish remarkable for its faithfulness to the spoken word. This Spanish is richly dialectic and a vital thread in the varied tapestry that is New Mexican language. English translations render the Spanish with detailed, personal nuance, and a glossary encourages readers with linguistic interests to compare regional variations with the standard Spanish of textbooks and dictionaries --Back cover.