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Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories de Susana Chávez-Silverman

Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories: Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as

Autor Susana Chávez-Silverman Cuvânt înainte de Paul Allatson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 dec 2010
A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chávez-Silverman.

Includes a chapter that was awarded first prize in El Andar magazine’s Chicano Literary Excellence Contest in the category of personal memoir.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299202248
ISBN-10: 0299202240
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as

Recenzii

“This is not a memoir written outside the box; it is a memoir written to obliterate it.”—Publishers Weekly

"Susana Chávez-Silverman isn't a code-switcher but a switch-burner. Her Killer Crónicas is an astonishing example of linguistic mestizaje. It's also a prophetic statement: north and south are no longer applicable coordinates to understand the Americas. They have merged into a single gravitational order where languages are in constant mutation."—Ilan Stavans, author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language

“A stirring memoir . . . practically a performance. Killer Crónicas is a testament to the maturing sense of global and pan-Latin citizenship being claimed by Chicanos and U.S.-born Latinos in the American West. Combine this with such innovation in language, and her book may one day be regarded as a refreshing turning point in Latino literature, maybe even the truly bilingual literary voice that the pioneering Chicana critic Gloria Anzaldúa called for.”—Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times

"Susana Chávez-Silverman's Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories is a masterfully written memoir in the form of 'chronicles' exploring issues of memory, family relationships, and language. Her philosophical excursions on writing, intertextuality, and life in general are brilliantly and humorously rendered in a bilingual format of  code-switching that evidences a superb knowledge of English and Spanish. This linguistic dexterity enables the crónicas to flow effortlessly from one language to another and easily captivates the reader as he/she  travels with the author in a most enjoyable and fascinating journey from  California to South Africa, Argentina, Spain, and Chile."— María Herrera-Sobek, associate vice chancellor and Luis Leal Endowed Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara

"These chronicles are truly hemispheric, postmodern memories written in a ludic, singular Spanglish that encapsulates the transnational, nomad vivencias of a Jewish Chicana from Califas, a citizen of the Hispanic world. Original, powerful and profound."—Frances Aparicio, University of Illinois at Chicago

Notă biografică

Susana Chávez-Silverman is professor of romance languages and literatures at Pomona College in California. She is author of Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters and coeditor of Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad and Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture.

Cuprins

FOREWORD


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


GLOSSARY CRÓNICA


I. MINI PLAYERA RE-ENTRY CRÓNICA


II. FLORA Y FAUNA CRÓNICA


III. "EL CHINO" CRÓNICA


IV. BLOOD/RELATIONS CRÓNICA


V. CELOS PASIONAL CRÓNICA


VI. MEMORY/LAME CRÓNICA


VII. TECOLOTE CRÓNICA


VIII. ROUTE 66 CRÓNICA


IX. ESTRAGOS ACUÁTICOS CRÓNICA


X. LOS ANGELES CUENCA CRÓNICA


XI. ANTI-SUICIDIO CRÓNICA


XII. ON THE ROAD CRÓNICA


XIII. OTRA VEZ EN HURLINGHAM CRÓNICA


XlV. LOST AND FOUND CRÓNICA


XV. TURKISH DELIGHT CRÓNICA


XVI. AXOLOTL CRÓNICA


XVII. CONO SUR MITZVAH CRÓNICA


XVIII. ANNIVERSARYCRÓNICA


XIX. LITTLE WHITE CAR STOLEN CRÓNICA


XX. RE-DESIGN CRÓNICA


XXI. MINI BARRIO NORTE CRÓNICA


XXII. IGUAZÚ CRÓNICA


XXIII. TINY LOVE-RIFF A CABALLITO CRÓNICA


XXIV. KILLER CRÓNICA
 

Descriere

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chávez-Silverman.