Ebook The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley New Mexico (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series)

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In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexicos Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valleys history and their identitymilitary records, travelers diaries, newspaper articles, poetry, and moreand bind them into a leather portfolio known as The Book of Archives. When a bomb blast during the Mexican-American War scatters the books contents to the wind, the memory of the accounts lives on instead in the minds of Mora residents. Poets and storytellers pass down the valleys traditions into the twentieth century, from one generation to the next. In this pathbreaking dual-language volume, author A. Gabriel Melndez joins their ranks, continuing the retelling of Mora Valleys tales for our time. A native of Mora with el don de la palabra, the divine gift of words, Melndez mines historical sources and his own imagination to reconstruct the valleys story, first in English and then in Spanish. He strings together humorous, tragic, and quotidian vignettes about historical events and unlikely occurrences, creating a vivid portrait of Mora, both in cultural memory and present reality. Local gossip and family legend intertwine with Spanish-language ballads and the poetry of New Mexicos most famous dueling troubadours, Old Man Vilmas and the poet Garca. Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, Melndez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.
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