Cuentos from Long Ago
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng; spa
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780826320643
Subjects: Folklore; Tales; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic American Sociology; Oral And Folk Literature; Literary Criticism; Sociology; Fiction; Arizona; Colorado; Mexico; New Mexico; Folklore & Mythology; Fiction / Folklore; American - Hispanic American; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
Description: "This bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offers the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years. The themes of these stories are universal - love and its costs, forgiveness, good versus evil - but the voices, images, and incidents are unique to the Southwest.

Set in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and northern Mexico, this timeless material offers lessons about life and how to triumph over its hardships: from making a bargain with the devil to gaining peace through true love; from dealing with inexplicable, even supernatural events to accepting special gifts that transform pain into joy; and from overcoming jealousy, anger, or stinginess to accepting others just as they are."--BOOK JACKET.