TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chávez-Silverman,Susana
AU  - Saint-Amour,Paul
AU  - Shelton,Michael
TI  - Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y Otros Natural Disasters
T2  - Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U. S. Latinos/as Series
SN  - 9780299235239
AV  - E184 
U1  - 973/.00468 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Chávez-Silverman, Susana
KW  - Latin Americans--United States--Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cartografía Humana/Star Maps Crónica -- I. Diary Inside/Color Local Crónica -- II. Montalvo Diary -- III. On Going Back Crónica -- IV. San Francisco Transcript/Diary -- V. In My Country Crónica -- VI. San Francisco Days Crónica -- Un Pico (De)presión Diptych -- VII. Trincheras Crónica -- VIII. Hawk Call Crónica -- IX. Oda a la Ambigüedad Crónica -- X. Mountainess/Montañ(os)a Crónica -- XI. South Coast Plaza Crónica -- XII. I Want the Wrapper Crónica -- XIII. Mini Geography Lesson Crónica -- XIV. Arañita Cobriza Crónica -- XV. Westside Desilusión Crónica -- There Was Blood Diptych -- XVI. Unos Cuantos Piquetitos Crónica -- XVII. Momentos Hemorrágicos Crónica -- XVIII. Currawong Crónica -- XIX. Por Montalvo Crónica -- XX. Alchemy Armisteadiana Crónica -- XXI. Tuberose Frenesí Crónica -- XXII. Solstice/Shamanic Magia Crónica -- XXIII. (Almost) Milagros Crónica -- XXIV. Todavía Wild (at Heart) Crónica -- Afterword: Linguistic Perspectives on Code-Switching
N2  - This is a rarity in contemporary writing, a truly bilingual enterprise, as in Susana Chávez-Silverman's previous memoir, Killer Crónicas. Chávez-Silverman switches between English and Spanish, creating a linguistic mestizaje that is still a surprise encounter in the world of letters today, and the author forms one of a small but growing band of writers to embrace bilingualism as a literary force. Also like Killer Crónicas, each chapter in Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles is a "crónica," a vignette that began as intimate diary entries and e-mails and letters to lovers, friends, and ghosts from the past. These episodic chapters follow the Chávez-Silverman's personal history, from California to South Africa and Australia and back, from unfathomable loss to deeply felt joy. Readers drawn into this witty book will confront their own conceptions of boundaries, borders, languages, memories, and spaces
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