Multicultural Reading : South America

Sehome High School Library

9/22/2005

 

398.2 Carpenter              

           Carpenter, Frances, 1890-1972.  South American wonder tales.

                Chicago, : Follett Pub. Co., [1969].  Legends from

                Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Surinam and

                Guiana.

 

398.2 Finger                 

           Finger, Charles J.  Tales from silver lands.  New York :

                Doubleday & Company, 1924.  Folklore and stories from the

                Latin American countries of Mexico, Brazil, Honduras,

                Guiana, Chile, the Andes, etc.

 

573.092 Donner               

           Donner, Florinda.  Shabono.  New York : Delacorte Press, c1982.

                An anthropologist finds herself becoming totally immersed in

                the primitive Indian culture of the Iticoteri tribe who have

                adopted her.

 

796.334 Nascimento           

           Pelé, 1940-.  My life and the beautiful game : the autobiography

                of Pelé.  1st ed.  Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977.  The

                autobiography of Pele, the great international soccer star.

 

868 Borges                   

           Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-.  Labyrinths;  selected stories &

                other writings.  [Augmented ed.  New York, : New Directions

                Pub. Corp., 1964].  Borges has composed essays or short

                narratives with wonderful intelligence and a wealth of

                invention, using a tight, almost mathematical style.

 

868 Colford                  

           Colford, William Edward, 1908- ed. and tr.  Classic tales from

                Spanish America.  Great Neck, N.Y., : Barron's Educational

                Series, [c1962].  The Cub. The Glass of milk, by Manuel

                Rojas.--Like sisters, by Eduardo Barrios.--The abyss, by

                Baldomero Lillo.--Indian justice, by Ricardo Jaimes

                Freyre.--The magistrate's ears. Margarita's nightgown, by

                Ricardo Palma.--Father's Day, by Hector Velarde.--Yzur, by

                Leopoldo Lugones.--The owl, by Alberto Gerchunoff.--The

                horse-breaker, by Javier de Viana.--The contract workers, by

                Horacia Quiroga.--The voice, by Arturo Uslar Pietri.--The

                death of the Empress of China, by Ruben Dario.--One hope, by

                Amado Nervo.--A letter to God, by Gregorio Lopez y

                Fuentes.--Natural causes, by Rafael Bernal.--The valley, by

                Gonzalo Mazas Garbayo.--Against regulations, by Enrique

                Serpa.--The pirate's treasure, by Cayetano Coll y

                Toste.--Santo Clo comes to La Cuchilla, by Abelardo Diaz

                Alfaro.

 

917.04 Theroux                

           Theroux, Paul.  The old Patagonian express : by train through the

                Americas.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979.  Theroux travels

                through Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, the Andean

                high plains of Peru and the Argentine pampas, encountering

                extraordinary, eccentric, boorish and exotic people.

 

972.85 Cabezas               

           Cabezas, Omar.  Fire from the mountain : the making of a

                Sandinista.  1st ed.  New York, N.Y. : Crown, c1985.  A

                current member of the Sandinista government recalls his

                personal experience as a guerrilla fighter.

 

972.98 Eisenberg             

           Eisenberg, Joyce.  Grenada.  New York : Chelsea House Publishers,

                1988.  Grenada and the world -- Land and sea -- Past and

                present -- The people of Grenada -- Government and education

                -- Economy and communications -- St. George's and other

                cities -- Arts and culture -- Looking to the future.

                Located off the northeast coast of South America, Grenada is

                the southernmost island of the Grenadines and Leeward

                Islands. This book surveys the history, topography, people,

                and culture of Grenada, with emphasis on its current

                economy, industry, and place in the political world.

 

972.98 O'Shaughnessy         

           O'Shaughnessy, Hugh.  Grenada : an eyewitness account of the U.S.

                invasion and the Caribbean history that provoked it.  1st

                ed.  New York : Dodd, Mead, c1984.

 

983 Garcia                   

           Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928-.  Clandestine in Chile : the

                adventures of Miguel Littin.  1st Owl Book ed.  New York :

                H. Holt, 1988.  Littin, a film director forbidden to ever

                return to his country, spends six weeks in disguise and

                shoots a documentary film about Chile.

 

F Abelove                    

           Abelove, Joan.  Go and come back.  1st American ed.  New York :

                DK InK, 1998.  Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a

                Peruvian village in the Andes, tells about the two American

                women anthropologists who arrive to study the way of life of

                her people.

 

F Bridal                     

           Bridal, Tessa, 1947-.  The tree of red stars.  1st pbk. ed.

                Minneapolis, MN. : [Emeryville, Calif.] : Milkweed Editions

                ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1998.  A tender

                story of love and friendship and a terrifying, personal look

                at a country, and a way of life, under siege.

 

F Costantini                 

           Costantini, Humberto.  The long night of Francisco Sanctis.  1st

                ed.  New York : Harper & Row, c1985.  One November evening

                during Argentina's paramilitary terrorist war, on old

                girlfriend mysteriously reappears and enlists Franciso's

                help in a mission to contact and warn two innocent youths

                who are in imminent peril of being kidnapped and probably

                killed by secret agenst of the Air Force.

 

F Garcia                     

           García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-.  Love in the time of cholera.

                1st American ed.  New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

                Translation of: El amor en los tiempos del colera. A love

                story that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the

                early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people

                and their entwined fates.

 

F Garcia-Marquez             

           García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-.  One hundred years of solitude.

                [1st ed.].  New York, : Harper & Row, [1970].

 

F Redfield                   

           Redfield, James M., 1935-.  The celestine prophecy : an

                adventure.  New York : Warner Books, c1993.  A critical mass

                -- The longer now -- A matter of energy -- The struggle for

                power -- The message of the mystics -- Clearing the past --

                Engaging the flow -- The interpersonal ethic -- The emerging

                culture.  The journey of a man in Peru as he joins in the

                search for the 9th insight, part of a manuscript reported to

                hold the key to life on Earth, as well as an explanation of

                how man is finally ready to attain his fullest potential,

                both spiritually and emotionally.

 

F Saer                       

           Saer, Juan Jose.  The Witness.  London : Serpent's Tail, 1990.

                In sixteenth century Spain, a cabin boy sets sail on a ship

                bound for the New World Molucca Islands. Along the coast of

                South America, the captain takes a small group inland on

                expedition. The entire party is killed by native Indians,

                except the boy who is captured and taken to live with the

                natives, where he observes their tribal customs, learns

                their language and becomes part of the tribe.

 

F Vasconcelos                

           Vasconcelos, José Mauro de.  My sweet-orange tree.  [1st American

                ed.].  New York, : Knopf, 1970.  Zeze is the most ingenious

                entrepreneur among the shoe-shine boys of Rio. He is superb

                at conning rich customers, untiring in his efforts at

                supporting his penniless family and has infinities of

                leftover energy for life on the streets.

 

PB Allende                   

           Allende, Isabel.  The house of the spirits.  1st American ed.

                New York : A.A. Knopf, 1985.  The epic story of the

                passionate Trueba family begins at the turn of the century

                in South America.

 

PB Fuentes                   

           Fuentes, Carlos.  The campaign.  1st ed.  New York : Farrar,

                Straus, Giroux, 1991.  Translation of: La campana. An

                inflamed revolutionary democrat and the son of a wealthy

                Argentine ranch owner, Baltasar Bustos, kidnaps the child of

                the Marquise de Cabra in 19th century South America.

 

PB Hudson                    

           Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922.  Green mansions.

                Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.  Abel, a

                poet and political exile, arrives at a savage village in

                South America where he becomes a naturalist and falls in

                love with a mysterious girl.

 

PB Marquez                   

           García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-.  One hundred years of solitude.

                New York, : Avon Books, [1970].  The rise and fall, birth

                and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the

                history of the Buendia family.

 

SC Garcia-Marques            

           García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-.  No one writes to the colonel,

                and other stories.  [1st ed.].  New York, : Harper & Row,

                [1968].  No one writes to the colonel.--Big Mama's funeral:

                Tuesday siesta. One of these days. There are no thieves in

                this town. Balthazar's marvelous afternoon. Montiel's widow.

                One day after Sunday. Artificial roses. Big Mama's funeral.

                The title story is a masterly short novel about life in a

                decaying tropical town in Colombia - Macondo by name - and

                the cycles of hope and despair, tragedy and comedy that grip

                the inhabitants with the regularity of the rains and the

                heat that dominate their lives. The desperately poor Colonel

                is a beautifully drawn Quixotic character who languishes on

                the faded dreams of his revolutionary past. The other

                stories reflect town and village life in South America.

 

SC Garcia-Marquez            

           García Marquez, Gabriel, 1928-.  Leaf storm, and other stories.

                [1st U.S. ed.].  New York, : Harper & Row, [1972].  Leaf

                storm.--The handsomest drowned man in the world.--A very old

                man with enormous wings.--Blacamán the Good, vendor of

                miracles.--The last voyage of the ghost ship.--Monologue of

                Isabel watching it rain in Macondo.--Nabo.  Leaf Storm was

                Garcia Marquez' first book. It shows the colorful historical

                background of Macondo, an imaginary town in Colombia from

                1903 to 1928 which later forms the basis of his suceeding

                novels. Three people reflect on the story of Macondo's boom

                and decline over three generations, attending its wake and

                recalling the tragedy that involves them all. Six shorter

                stories are included.

 

SC Landscapes                

           Landscapes of a new land : fiction by Latin American women.

                White Pine Press, 1989.  Sky, sea and earth, by Maria Luisa

                Bombal.--Genealogies, by Margo Glantz.--Good evening,

                Agatha, by Yoland Bedregal.--Natural theology, by Hilda

                Hilst.--Destination, by Patricia Bins.--I love my husband,

                by Nelida Pinon.--The message, Elena Poniatowska.--The key,

                by Lygia Fagundes Telles.--Solitude of blood, by Marta

                Brunet.--Plaza Maua, by Clarice Lispector.--The open letter,

                by Helena Araujo.--Cecilia's last will and testament, by

                Alicia Steimberg.--The compulsive couple of the house on the

                hill, by Carmen Naranjo.--The snow white guard, by Luisa

                Valenzuela.--Cape number one, by Dora Alonso.--Jimena's

                fair, by Laura Riesco.--A child, a dog, the night, by Amalia

                Rendic.--The enchanted raisin, by Jacqueline Balcells.--The

                servant's slaves, by Silvina Ocampo.--The beguiling ladies,

                by Elvira orphee.--The museum of futile endeavors, by

                Cristina Peri Rossi.  Stories from women of Chile, Mexico,

                Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru

                and Uruguay.

 

SC What                      

           What is secret : stories by Chilean women.  Fredonia, N.Y. :

                White Pine Press, c1995.  Memories of clay / María Christina

                da Fonseca -- The pilgrim's angel / Violeta Quevedo --

                Vanessa and Victory / María Asuncion De Fokes -- The dress /

                Marta Jara -- Elegance / Ana Vásquez -- The depatment store

                / Flor María Aninat -- Cleaning the closet / Margarita

                Aquirre -- Maternity / Marta Blanco -- Insignificance / Luz

                Orfanoz -- Sailing down the Rhine / Sonia Guralnik -- The

                Englishwoman / Marta Jara -- The whited bedspread / Elena

                Castedo -- Down river / Marta Brunet -- The pond /

                MaríaFlora Yáñez -- Scents of wood and silence / Pía Barros

                -- Subway / Ana María del Río -- The fish tank / Alejandra

                Farias -- Not without her glasses / Carmen Basáñez -- A

                requiem for hands / Alejandra Basualto -- Encounter on the

                margins / Lucía Guerra -- A dog, a boy and the night /

                Amalia Rendic -- Butterfly man / Elena Aldunate -- Up to the

                clouds. The family album / Ana María Guiraldes -- Endless

                flight / María Cristina da Fonseca -- The secret / María

                Luisa Bombal -- Hualpín / Sonia Montecinos.  A collection of

                stories written between 1920 and 1995 by over thirty women

                writers from Chile.