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The Chills at Will PodcastEpisode 240 with Marcela Fuentes, Author of Malas, and Master of Epic Family Sagas and Resonant ProfundityNotes and Links to Marcela Fuentes’ Work
For Episode 240, Pete welcomes Marcela Fuentes, and the two discuss, among other topics, her childhood in borderland Texas, her experiences with bilingualism, formative and transformative reading, the greatness and timelessness of Selena, seeds for Malas in fairy tales and the title’s multilayered meanings, working in flashback and flashforward to illuminate racism and Texas/borderland histories, and salient themes in her collection like toxic masculinity, the burdens and triumphs of motherhood, grief, trauma, addiction, and ideas of fractured and reworked families.
Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart...2024-06-281h 02
Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts DegreeEpisode 13: Dr. Lee Bebout on Translating the Liberal Arts into Jobs Welcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree.
This show is about the value of a liberal arts education. Jeff Crane, student of the liberal arts, environmental historian, and higher education administrator for the past 12 years, hosts a wide range of guests whose experiences as students of the liberal arts have shaped their lives in school, as professionals, and in their lives outside of their careers.
Dr. Lee Bebout is on this week's show for an important and ever timely conversation about the humanities in relationship to false n...2024-01-161h 02
Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy CornelliansCLAA Series: Manuel Muñoz MFA '98In the sixth of the CLAA Series for the Fresh from the Hill Podcast, CLAA board members interview the 2023 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipient, Manuel Muñoz, MFA ‘98.
In his writing, Muñoz draws on his roots growing up in a Mexican-American family of farmworkers in California’s Central Valley to explore the impacts of racial politics and limited economic opportunities in this region. He tells the stories of a wide spectrum of people, including mothers and sons, U.S.-born citizens and immigrants, young gay men and teenage parents.
Manuel details how his academic work at Harvard...2024-01-1048 min
Escape Reality Through Your Headphones With Free AudiobookDaughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women Audiobook by Sandra GuzmanListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 645263
Title: Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
Author: Sandra Guzman
Narrator: Almarie Guerra, Maria Victoria Martinez
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18:38:51
Language: English
Release date: 08-15-23
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Essays & Anthologies
Summary:
Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the worldfrom warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuñagathered in one magnificent volume.
Daughters of Latin A...2023-08-156h 38
Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Stealing: A Novel by Margaret VerblePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600960to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stealing: A Novel
Author: Margaret Verble
Narrator: Delanna Studi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Release date: February 7, 2023
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book Review A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and...2023-02-076h 44Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalStealing: A Novel by Margaret VerblePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600960to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stealing: A Novel
Author: Margaret Verble
Narrator: Delanna Studi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Release date: February 7, 2023
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book Review A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and...2023-02-076h 44
New Books in African American StudiesJose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Press, 2022), Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in both literary traditions--including those who engage with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s--Fernandez finds intriguing points of convergence. His cross-cultural and comparative analysis puts Black and Latinx authors and literary works into the sam...2022-10-2643 min
New Books in Latino StudiesJose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Press, 2022), Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in both literary traditions--including those who engage with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s--Fernandez finds intriguing points of convergence. His cross-cultural and comparative analysis puts Black and Latinx authors and literary works into the sam...2022-10-2643 min
New Books in Literary StudiesJose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Press, 2022), Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in both literary traditions--including those who engage with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s--Fernandez finds intriguing points of convergence. His cross-cultural and comparative analysis puts Black and Latinx authors and literary works into the sam...2022-10-2643 min
New Books in American StudiesJose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Press, 2022), Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in both literary traditions--including those who engage with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s--Fernandez finds intriguing points of convergence. His cross-cultural and comparative analysis puts Black and Latinx authors and literary works into the sam...2022-10-2643 minNew Books in American StudiesJose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Press, 2022), Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in both literary traditions--including those who engage with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s--Fernandez finds intriguing points of convergence. His cross-cultural and comparative analysis puts Black and Latinx authors and literary works into the sam...2022-10-2643 min
Ohio State UP PodcastJose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Press, 2022), Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in both literary traditions--including those who engage with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s--Fernandez finds intriguing points of convergence. His cross-cultural and comparative analysis puts Black and Latinx authors and literary works into the sam...2022-10-2643 min
HTI Open PlazaCultivating Community Cultural Capital'The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital' (University of New Orleans Press, 2022) by writer and activist Tony Diaz, known as El Librotraficante, was published ten years after Arizona officials enforced a ban on Mexican American Studies. Diaz drove throughout the Southwest on his way to Arizona—with a caravan of Houston activists that included poet Lupe Mendez, Liana Lopez, Bryan Parras, and Laura Razo—after the state banned high school Mexican American studies programs, thus outlawing curriculums that consisted of books like The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; The Months and Other Stories by Helena Maria Vira...2022-09-121h 05
Rewrite Radio#57 Helena Maria ViramontesIn episode #57 of Rewrite Radio, Helena María Viramontes shares her thoughts on prayer, compassion, and love to form a deeper connection with others. Theme music is Modern Attempt by TrackTribe and June 11 by Andrew Starr.2022-06-1627 min
Real Ballers Read10. Why I Love the Characters from Under the Feet of Jesus with Dr. Paula MoyaIn this episode, we discuss Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes with Dr. Paula Moya. We cover everything from the importance of rereading to the myth of La Llorona and the meaning of womanhood and environmental racism in the book.
Dr. Moya is a Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and her teaching and research focus on twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century literary studies, feminist theory, critical theory, narrative theory, American cultural studies, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, and Chicano/a and U.S. Latina/o studies.
Check out Dr. Pa...2021-06-3055 minReal Ballers Read10. Why I Love the Characters from Under the Feet of Jesus with Dr. Paula MoyaIn this episode, we discuss Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes with Dr. Paula Moya. We cover everything from the importance of rereading to the myth of La Llorona and the meaning of womanhood and environmental racism in the book.
Dr. Moya is a Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and her teaching and research focus on twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century literary studies, feminist theory, critical theory, narrative theory, American cultural studies, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, and Chicano/a and U.S. Latina/o studies.
Check out Dr. Pa...2021-06-3055 min
Charla Cultural004 – Hanging with Helena María ViramontesWe’re hanging with Helena María Viramontes!! Award-winning fiction writer Helena María Viramontes reads and then chats with us about what matters in her writing.
We’ll also get into assimilation, intergenerational trauma (with jokes!), what we’re reading, and some thoughts for the road!2021-05-131h 07
UO TodayUO Today - "Common Seeing" In The Jordan Schnitzer Museum Of ArtCheryl Hartup, Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American and Caribbean Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and Danielle Knapp, the McCosh Curator at the Jordan Schnitzer of Art, discuss the museum's Common Seeing collaboration with the UO's Common Reading program. This year the exhibit responds to Helena Maria Viramontes's novel, Under the Feet of Jesus. The curators describe the works of art on view. "Resistance as Power: A Curatorial Response to Under the Feet of Jesus" is on view through February 23rd, 2020.2019-12-2028 min
UO TodayUO Today With Helena Maria ViramontesHelena María Viramontes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University, is the author of numerous short stories and two novels, Their Dogs Came with Them and Under the Feet of Jesus. She discusses her writing and Under the Feet of Jesus which is the University of Oregon's 2019-20 Common Reading selection. Viramontes also reads a passage from the book.2019-10-2929 min
Full Audiobook That Come to Life, AnywhereUnder the Feet of Jesus Audiobook by Helena Maria ViramontesListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 343379
Title: Under the Feet of Jesus
Author: Helena Maria Viramontes
Narrator: Nancy Ticotin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:37:00
Language: English
Release date: 12-18-18
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, General
Summary:
A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields.
“Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair’s The Jung...2018-12-184h 37
Download Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria ViramontesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343379to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Under the Feet of Jesus
Author: Helena Maria Viramontes
Narrator: Nancy Ticotin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Release date: December 18, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5
Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields. “Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair...2018-12-184h 37Get Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalUnder the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria ViramontesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343379to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Under the Feet of Jesus
Author: Helena Maria Viramontes
Narrator: Nancy Ticotin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Release date: December 18, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5
Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields. “Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair...2018-12-184h 37
New Books in Environmental StudiesSarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America’s natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust...2016-06-2858 min
New Books in Latino StudiesSarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America’s natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust...2016-06-2858 min
New Books in FoodSarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America’s natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust...2016-06-2858 minNew Books in Literary StudiesSarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America’s natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bow...2016-06-2858 min
BookwormHelena Maria ViramontesTheir Dogs Came with Them (Atria)
Helena Maria Viramontes has written about L.A.-based Latino culture before -- but who could have expected this epic work about a neighborhood that is divided by a
freeway, cut off and lost in Los Angeles. Viramontes explores the explosive insights that gave her the ability to grow as a novelist.2007-08-1629 minBookwormHelena Maria ViramontesUnder the Feet of Jesus Viramontes talks about the Latina writer's obligation to choose art and truth over political correctness.1995-10-2329 min