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Burton, Maria Amparo Ruiz De

 
9780143105879: Who Would Have Thought It? (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0143105876 ISBN 13: 9780143105879
Editorial: Penguin Publishing Group, 2009

Sinopsis

A major rediscovery—the first novel by a Mexican American Woman

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first Mexican American woman to write novels in English and the first nineteenth-century California writer to publish a novel in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Her first book, Who Would Have Thought It?, tells the story of Lola, a young, orphaned Mexican girl rescued from Indian captors by one Dr. Norval, who returns with Lola to his New England home. Though the townspeople initially shun the interloper, they become transfixed by Lola once word about the gold accompanying her gets out. Through the riveting personal story of a young girl’s coming-of-age, Who Would Have Thought It? offers a stunning portrayal of the clash of cultures and communities, and a fresh perspective on Civil War America.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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MarÍa Amparo Ruiz De Burton (1832-1895) was born in Loreto, Baja Mexico to a military elite family. She experienced the Mexican American War, the Civil War, and the French invasion of Mexico. This led her to a life of writing. She is the first nineteenth-century Californian novelist, and nationally, she is the first Mexican American woman to publish a novel after the end of the Mexican-American War (1848). In addition to Who Would Have Thought It? (1872), she also published the novel, the Squatter and the Don (1885) and is the author of the play, Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts.

Amelia MarÍa de la Luz Montes is Associate Professor of English and Director of The Institute for Ethnic Studies at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the co-editor of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives (2004) and has published in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and theory. She also publishes fiction. She is currently at work on a fictional memoir and critical text on Latina writers and artists of the Midwest. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

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Editorial
Penguin Publishing Group
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0143105876
ISBN 13 
9780143105879
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
368
Editor
Montes Amelia Maria De La L
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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ISBN 10:  1558850813 ISBN 13:  9781558850811
Editorial: ARTE PUBLICO PR, 1995
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