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Latino Americans have a powerful voice in society and a wealth of cultural traditions. Fundamental to those traditions are numerous folktales. Some are funny, some draw upon the supernatural, some look back on ancestral ways, and some capture the experience of Latinos in the United States. Written expressly for students and general readers, this book assembles and comments on a wide range of Latino American folktales. These are grouped in topical sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural.
Each tale is introduced by a headnote, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources suitable for student research. Students of literature and language will value this book for its exploration of Latino American folktales, while students of history and society will welcome its illumination of the Latino American experience. The more than 30 tales are grouped in thematic sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural.
Latino Americans have a powerful voice in society and a wealth of cultural traditions. Fundamental to those traditions are numerous folktales. Some are funny, some draw upon the supernatural, some look back on ancestral ways, and some capture the experience of Latinos in the United States. Written expressly for students and general readers, this book assembles and comments on a wide range of Latino American folktales. These are grouped in topical sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural.
Each tale is introduced by a headnote, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources suitable for student research. Students of literature and language will value this book for its exploration of Latino American folktales, while students of history and society will welcome its illumination of the Latino American experience. The more than 30 tales are grouped in thematic sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural.
Assembles a wide range of Latino American folktales, each introduced by an explanatory headnote.
Preface
1. Origins
Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca
Jesus
The Peak of Gold
Becoming American
2. Heroes, Heroines, Villains, and Fools
The Little Green Rabbit
A New Mexico David
John Tiger
The Boy Who Became King
Maria the Ash Girl
Blanca Flor
The Bear Prince
The Prohibited Chamber
Tale of the Rabbit
Brother Coyote
Sister Fox and Brother Coyote
Pedro de Urdemalas
Pablo Apodaca and the Bear
3. Society and Conflict
Manuel Jesus Vasques: A Life on the Southwest Frontier
Francisco Trujillo and Billy the Kid
Elfego Baca
Sunday Seven
The Bird of the Sweet Song
The Louse Skin Coat
4. The Supernatural
Papantzin
Clemencia and Jos
The Giants Secret
La Llorona
Bullet-Swallower
The Accursed Bell
El Seor Milagroso Rescues a Stingy Son
The Penitent Brothers
The Living Spectre
Three Live Witches
The Witch Deer
Witch Tales from New Mexico
Selected Bibliography
THOMAS A. GREEN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. His many books include The Greenwood Library of American Folktales (2006), and The Greenwood Library of World Folktales (2008).
Continuing his series collecting folktales of various national and
ethnic groups in the US, Green (anthropology, Texas A&M U.)
presents a selection of fictional tales, legends, myths, and
personal experience narratives from people of Latin American
heritage. Among the titles are Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, Maria
the ash girl, Francisco Trujillo and Billy the Kid, Princess
Papantzin's resurrection, the accursed bell, and the witch deer. He
has gleaned the tales from previous collections, and introduces
each one briefly.
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