New Mexico's master storyteller creates a southwestern version
of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century
Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with
conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government.
When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is
revealed as a young woman. Educated by the friars in her pueblo's
mission church, Serafina speaks beautiful Spanish and surprises the
Governor with her fearlessness and intelligence.
The two strike a bargain. She will entertain the Governor by
telling him a story. If he likes her story, he will free one of the
prisoners. Like Scheherazade, who prevented her royal husband from
killing her by telling him stories, Serafina keeps the Governor so
entertained with her versions of Nuevo Mexicano cuentos that he
spares the lives of all her fellow prisoners.
Some of the stories Serafina tells will have a familiar ring to
them, for they came from Europe and were New Mexicanized by the
Spanish colonists. Some have Pueblo Indian plots and characters -
and it is this blending of the two cultures that is Anaya's true
subject.
General
Imprint: |
University of New Mexico Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2013 |
First published: |
August 2013 |
Authors: |
Rudolfo Anaya
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Dimensions: |
203 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8263-3570-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Myth & legend told as fiction
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LSN: |
0-8263-3570-5 |
Barcode: |
9780826335708 |
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