
Killer Cronicas |
Subtitle:
Bilingual Memories
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Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
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Author:
Chavez-Silverman, Susana
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ISBN 10:
978-0-299-20224-8
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ISBN 13:
0-299-20224-0
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Price:
USD 16.95
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Publication Year:
2004
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Publisher Info
University of Wisconsin Press. InquiryA woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chavez-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 "cronica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Cronicas confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chavez-Silverman.
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Book Review and Awards
"A stirring memoir . . . practically a performance. Killer Cronicas 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 Anzaldua called for."--Los Angeles Times