With a book in their hands
Subtitle: Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries
By: edited by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780826354761
Subjects: Book collecting; Books and reading; Mexican Americans; Mexican American authors; History and criticism; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Alma Ester Cortés; title: Learning to read / Argelia Flores; title: Learned to read at my momma's knee / Carlos Cumpián; title: La mees chancla / Carmen Tafolla; title: On reading: books in my life / Eliud Martínez; title: Holy scripture / Ever Rodríguez; title: Storm's impact one for the books / Veronica Flores-Paniagua; title: Gift of poetry, gift of reading / Irma Flores-Manges; title: The bookcase / Lucía de Anda Vázquez; title: Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Anthony Macías; title: Un juego de libros añejos / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas; title: A set of old books / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas; title: Sea fever / Maria Kelson; title: Reading Thomas Hardy / María Teresa Márquez; title: They say that mejicanos don't read / Minerva Daniel; title: In the stacks / Monica Hanna; title: Los libros de mi padre / Shanti A. Sánchez; title: My father's books / Shanti A. Sánchez; title: Reading saved me from the chaos / Shonnon Gutiérrez; title: The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Veronica Ortega; title: Nena / Vito de la Cruz; title: Revisiting Nancy Drew / Beth Hernandez-Jason; title: Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction; title: Fernando Vázquez / Cuauhtémoc B. Díaz; title: Lupe Rodríguez / Helen Fabela Chávez; title: Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction; title: El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Carlos Morton; title: Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / A. Gabriel Meléndez; title: The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez; title: Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Eleanor B. Adams; title: Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes.