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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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Iztapalapa
En mi estancia en el DF durante el 2004 nunca fui a Iztapalapa. Las múltiples voces que el DF susurraban las maravillas de la delegación desistían de sus esfuerzos al toparse con mis infectados valores humanos. Nunca fui, claro, mi estancia fue en Marzo y la mera idea gráfica de verme en ese mar de…
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Fruta malquerida
A esa hora solía pasar el autobús verde y crema del Charlie con destino al descanso. Y pasó enfrente de mí como cualquier otro día. Serían algo así como las seis de la tarde por ahí. Yo estaba sentado en la banqueta dejando las horas pasar su ritmo sin mucha preocupación porque esos días no…
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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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Fragmenta
Lucia la tarde un esplendor de ayeres. En ese rincón del pueblo se anuncia con regularidad desolación a varias leguas gracias a los cúmulos que rellenan el paisaje de romanticismo indeseado y miles de horizontes sinfín como un campo anuncia diente de león. – Bueno, lo que pasa es que tiene ciertas maneras de acercarse…
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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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