Author: JulioSueco
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Revoluciones y otros pormenores
Vemos en el pasado algo que necesita manifestarse en el presente porque necesitamos creer en un futuro. El 2010 para mí representa revolución no ya extrinsicus pero sí intrénsico. Por lo menos eso aguarda bastante para mí el 2010. Será un año bastante aburrido y emocionante a la misma vez. Este tipo de predicciones las…
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Jovita Gonzáles 8th comment
In A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles1 a seldom researched area is taken to task, namely, that of assimilation of Anglos in what is a predominantly Spanish-Mexican dominated territory era. Anglos converted to Catholicism and abade by Hispanic customs. So is the case also in Jovita’s book2. There is a lot of intermarriage with…
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Jovita Gonzáles 7th comment
Carmen Fought has done a remarkable job by giving us a structured form of ChE. I haven’t read Chicano English in Context through and through though but I have stopped in certain passages where my eyes have noticed the value in the observations or the examples. One such example that has drawn my attention is…
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Beware of camping Latinos
Forest Service warns Coloradans: Beware of camping Latinos By John Tomasic 8/28/09 6:41 PM In a presentation on recent discoveries of major marijuana-cultivation operations in Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service said it suspected an international cartel was behind the state’s hidden weed farms. Officials issued a warning that asked forest visitors to look for signs…
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Jovita Gonzáles 6th comment
By mistake I wrote Dew of the Thorn and once realizing my mistake I came upon a significance for the title of the book. I realized that dew is one of those things that is reminiscent of a new start. A new morrow if you will. Once I corrected my spelling error I proceeded to…
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Jovita Gonzáles Fifth comment
I have fallen in love with page 150 of Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1. It’s a chapter entitled The New Leader and it’s about the second Fernando of the Olivares family, born 1871. He is a half gringo and a half Mexican. Fernando grew up, and realizing when very young that he had…
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Jovita Gonzáles Fourth comment
The authority of Tío Esteban, the new mail carrier, in “a forlorn-looking two wheeled vehicle” is an interesting passage. There is a palpable break. A sign that the Usted and tú borderlines of the Spanish language have ceased to permeate the everyday life of the community. It no longer applies as a rule. We must…
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Jovita Gonzáles Comment 3
In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1 the color of races play a significant role, gringos have blue eyes and servants are dark. Yet more interesting is the fact that the Caste system plays a role in the late 1800’s as is evident that society revolves around the color of the skin. Add to…
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Jovita Gonzáles Comment 2
In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1, the Anglo plays a rather significant roll not because we are not familiar with the eternal binomial in Chicano narrative between gringos and Chicanos but because it is an early ground we have walked upon before. Jovita is a predecessor of Aztlán geography and topology. It is…
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comment 1
I have come to realize that Chicano narrative has fitted quite nicely into American folklore because it is a vision. Chicanos in general all share a vision of what it was and what it might become. That is why Aztlán although despised by most Anglo loving philes can accept the fact that we exist. Even…
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I went to a festival in my small town Sweden were I in turn came under the influences of the spirits. Everybody knows everybody here. Now, am not trying to excuse the fact I behaved inappropriately at the festival, although I haven’t even described this inappropriateness it goes to show how weird this whole charade…
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La araña
I now know Spring is here. Arachnid traces whirl outside my window. The multilayer colored string plays its tune. This silent music rings hollow. I see but the wind play yet its vibrations fall in deaf ears. Yet I delight so in the colors the sun strikes on its silk. How I wish I could…