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Jovita Gonzáles 6th comment

By JulioSueco

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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…

Jovita Gonzáles Fifth comment

By JulioSueco

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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…

Jovita Gonzáles Comment 3

By JulioSueco

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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…

Jovita Gonzáles Comment 2

By JulioSueco

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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.…

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By JulioSueco

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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…

Letters

By JulioSueco

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Hopefully it will not be long from now that I can retake my writing. It has been a long time since I really wrote. It’s not until this morning that my preoccupation with writing was what was being a hurdle of sorts in my writing. I worried about…

By JulioSueco

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El Año en Spitzberg I El Año en Spitzberg II I carry in my head the voices I heard through the earphones. A free mp3 download that infiltrated my veins. I can associate. I can relate. I can feel the hispanic virus trying to seek its kin. I refuse to…

planning forsaken pleasures

By JulioSueco

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Supposedly carved into the Delphi temple were three phrases: Î³Î½Ï‰Î¸Î¹ ÏƒÎµÎ±Ï…Ï„ÏŒÎ½ (gnothi seauton = “know thyself”) and ÎüÎ·Î´ÎÎ½ Î¬Î³Î±Î½ (meden agan = “nothing in excess”), and Î•Î³Î³ÏÎ± Ï€Î¬ÏÎ± Î´’Î±Ï„Î· (eggua…

Chicano academics

By JulioSueco

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The theocracy of la raza are beyond the streets they study. Something happens to chicano academics that makes them distance themselves from the very culture they purport to examine. I don’t get that. In colloquial language they sell out. For some…

love is a pain

By JulioSueco

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I wonder how aztec and maya loving chicanos will react to this. Specially La Voz de Aztlán. My, my indeed. Moctezuma was gay. He loved to gorgle the mayonesa; le gustaba el arroz con popote. Well, you get the picture. I personally don’t subscribe…

Ni modo

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lo confieso, fui victima del turismo. Pero ni cómo evitarlo, mis abuelos tenían un puesto de artesanías en plena Ave. Revolución, tuvieron que sucumbir, a mis costas:

Bamba

By JulioSueco

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Gracia. Ordet Gracia. The word Gracia has never adquiered, in the English language, the significance Ritchie Valens gave it. Gracia. He knew. We knew. You know. I Knew- I know. And so it was.