9798218528683 - Soy Como Soy y Que von Valle-Senties, Raquel (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Raquel Valle-Sentíes's Soy Como Soy y Qué, first published by M & A Editions in San Antonio, Texas, in 1996, and now in a new expanded edition, chronicles her journey of self-discovery, which leads from Laredo to Veracruz and back. This new edition's first part, entitled 'Laredo,' documents the poet's experience growing up in Laredo, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, a region neither Mexican nor American, where both cultures clash and converge. . In the second section, 'Veracruz,' the poet confronts the domestic oppression imposed by her husband's traditional Mexican machismo and the disdain she encounters in Mexico for being an American, a gringa, a pocha. The final section, 'Ahora,' tracks her return to Laredo, where her divorce and disillusionment ultimately push her to forge her independence. The final poem, 'Soy como soy y qué,' now a border classic, affirms her identity as a fronteriza, neither totally Mexican nor totally American yet an alchemy of both.