The woman who lost her soul and other stories /
Jovita González ; edited, with an introduction, by Sergio Reyna.
- 1 online resource.
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage .
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication. .
"Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage"--Preliminary page.
The mocking bird -- The woodpecker -- The paisano -- The cicada -- The cardinal -- The mescal-drinking horse -- Tío patricio -- Juan, el loco -- Don José María -- Don Tomás -- Pedro the hunter -- The mail carrier -- The perennial lover -- Tío pancho malo -- The bullet-swallower -- The philosopher of the brush country -- Among my people : border folklore -- Among my people -- El cardo santo (the thistle) -- The Guadalupe vine -- The dove -- El cenzizo -- Shelling corn by moonlight -- Border folklore -- The gift of the pitahaya -- Ambrosio the Indian -- The first cactus blossom -- Shades of tenth muses -- Legends of ghosts and treasures -- The devil on the border -- Without a soul -- The woman who lost her soul -- Nana Chita.
The writer Jovita Gonzalez was long a member and ultimately served as president of the Texas Folklore Society, which strove to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by Gonzalez in periodicals such as the Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time.Sergio Reyna has brought together more than thirty narratives by Gonzalez and arranged them into Animal Tales (such as The Mescal-Drinking Horse); Tales of Humans (The Bullet-Swallower); Tales of Mexican Ancestors (Ambrosio the Indian); and Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasure (The Woman Who Lost Her Soul). Reyna also provides a helpful introduction that succinctly surveys the author's life and work and considers her writings within their historical and cultural contexts.
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Mexican Americans--Fiction. Animals--Fiction.
Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction. Mexico--Social life and customs--Fiction.