Maria herrera sobek biography samples
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- María Herrera-Sobek
- sobek@chicst.ucsb.edu
The small book, La voz de mi conciencia: Life, Times and Talents of Luis S. Martínez, is a cultural-historical gem fortuitously found by Demetria Martínez in the closet of her grandfather, Luis Sedillo Martínez. It is based, as the co-editors Demetria Martínez, Enrique Lamadrid, and Teodoro Martínez state in the acknowledgements/agradecimientos page, “[o]n the memories of Teodoro ‘Ted’ Flores Martínez and Demetria Jaramillo Martínez and their love for father and grandfather Luis Sedillo Martínez.” It consists of sixty-one pages and provides the reader with excellent insights into New Mexico’s history, life, and culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition, the book contains numerous valuable historical photographs that add to the historical data presented.
La voz de mi conciencia is divided into three main parts: Part I consists of the prologue and provides the background and biographical sketch of the principal subject of the book, Luis Sedillo Martínez. It highlights his importance as a poet, singer, musician, and citizen extraordinaire of New Mexico. He was born in Martineztown (near Albuquer
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Critical Insights: The House on Mango Street
Editor: María Herrera-Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara
October 2010
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This volume in the Critical Insights series offers a comprehensive introduction to Sandra Cisneros's acclaimed novel.
The House on Mango Street is easily one of the most critically and commercially successful novels by a Mexican American writer. Since its publication in 1984, more than one million copies have been sold, and it regularly appears on high school and college reading lists. In deceptively simple prose, it tells the stories of a young Mexican American girl's family and friends and of her coming-of-age within an impoverished Chicago neighborhood. Both universal in theme and culturally specific, it stands as a landmark in Chicano/a and American literature.
Edited and with an introduction by María Herrera-Sobek, Professor of Chicano Studies and the Luis Leal Endowed Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Herrera-Sobek reasons that a large part of the novel's success can be attributed to its simple prose and reliance on suggestive metaphors and similes, and Chloë Schama, writing on behalf of The Paris Review, reflects on the urgency Cisneros f