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The moths and other stories / Helena María Viramontes

By:

Viramontes, Helena Maria, (, 1954-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press , 1995Description: 125 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781558851382

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC VIR

LOC classification:

PS3572.I63 M6 1995

Contents:

Introduction / by Yvonne Yarbo-Bejarano -- The moths -- Growing -- Birthday -- The broken web -- The Cariboo Cafe -- The long reconciliation -- Snapshots -- Neighbors.

Summary: Stories exploring wormen's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture and church. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their central, unifying theme deals with the social and cultural values which shape women's lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC VIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		024443

Stories originally published in various periodicals that explore women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their central, unifying theme deals with the social and cultural values which shape women's lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success.

Introduction / by Yvonne Yarbo-Bejarano -- The moths -- Growing -- Birthday -- The broken web -- The Cariboo Cafe -- The long reconciliation -- Snapshots -- Neighbors.

Stories exploring wormen's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture and church. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their central, unifying theme deals with the social and cultural values which shape women's lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success.

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