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Receive Our Memories - The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952 (Hardcover)
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Receive Our Memories - The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952 (Hardcover)
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Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship
for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en
masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of
the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of
letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper,
to his daughter, a recent emigre to California, in the 1950s. These
are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor
history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this
period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters include many
of the affective concerns and quotidian subject matter that are the
heart and soul of most immigrant correspondence, they also reveal
his deep attachment to a wider world that he has never seen. They
include extensive discussions on the political events of his day
(the Cold War, the Korean War, the atomic bomb, the conflict
between Truman and MacArthur), ruminations on culture and religion
(the role of Catholicism in the modern world, the dangers of
Protestantism to Mexican immigrants to the United States), and
extensive deliberations on the philosophical questions that would
naturally preoccupy the mind of an elderly and sick man: Is life
worth living? What is death? Will I be rewarded or punished in
death? What does it mean to live a moral life? The thoughtfulness
of Moreno's meditations and quantity of letters he penned, provide
historians with the rare privilege of reading a part of the Mexican
national narrative that, as Mexican author Elena Poniatowska notes,
is usually "written daily, and daily erased."
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