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Latina Icons: Iconos Femeninos Latinos e hispanoamericanos
By
María Claudia André
Published by Floricanto Press, 2006
This book brings the most prominent Latino icons, popular female figures, and offers the most important and clear description of the process of iconization of the most cherished Latin American women. This book attempts to define and provide meaning to these popular women within the context of popular symbols and the function these women played in the construction of their individual and collective identity. These articles, written by well-known Latin Americanists, many of them Latinas themselves, reflect a most revealing landscape of iconization of these Latinas ranging from religious, political, and popular articulation. These images help us understand the complex discursive process of the creation of popular images, and the influence that institutions and cultural traditions play in their creation. La Malinche, the movie actress Maria Felix, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Maria Ilonza, Frida Kahlo, Selena, Yemayá, Carmen Miranda, and Malena, the woman object of the most notable Tango, are among the figures discussed in this extraordinary book.
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The Land Newly Found
By
J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer
Published by Thomas Allen Publishers
From two of Canada's preeminent historians comes a highly original compilation of eyewitness accounts of the Canadian immigrant experience from the past 250 years.
The Land Newly Found is comprehensive, fascinating collection of first-person stories from the frontiers of Canadian immigration history. Drawn from letters, newspapers, and reportage, these vivid accounts provide an insightful look into the lives and minds of those beginning life anew in Canada, including: their reasons for immigrating; their lives left behind; their struggles to adapt; their search for employment; their difficulties with language; their quest for security; their encounters with exploitation and racism; their experience of empathy and goodwill; their responses to Canada - and Canada's responses to them.
Immediate and engaging, The Land Newly Found not only explores the personal stories of those who chose to make Canada their new home, but provides keen insight into the policies and politics of a budding multicultural nation.
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