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Can?culathe dog daysa particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cant?s fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, it also represents a time between childhood and an as yet unknown adulthood. Actual snapshots and the authors re-created memories allow readers to experience the pivotal events of this worldbirths, deaths, injuries, fiestas, rites of passage. This popular book won the 1995 Premio Aztl?n. A personalized ethnography that feels as familiar as my own family album, and as touching.Ana CastilloIntimate as a poem, and as large as the Texas sky, these stories are at once diminutive and grand.Sandra Cisneros

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title Cancula Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera author - photo 1

title:Cancula : Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera
author:Cant, Norma Elia.
publisher:University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin:0826318282
print isbn13:9780826318282
ebook isbn13:9780585187341
language:English
subjectMexican American families--Fiction, Texas--Fiction, Girls--Fiction, Domestic fiction.
publication date:1995
lcc:PS3553.A555C36 1995eb
ddc:813/.54
subject:Mexican American families--Fiction, Texas--Fiction, Girls--Fiction, Domestic fiction.
Page ii
CANCULA
Snapshots of a Girlhood
en la Frontera
Norma Elia Cant
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Albuquerque
Page iv
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cant, Norma Elia, 1947
Cancula : snapshots of a girlhood en la frontera / Norma Elia
Cant.1st ed. p. cm.
ISBN 0-8263-1592-5 :ISBN 0-8263-1828-2 (pbk.)
1. Mexican American familiesTexasFiction. 2. Family
TexasFiction. 3. GirlsTexasFiction. I. Title.
PS3553.A555C36 1995 813'.54dc20 94-27153 CIP
1995 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved.
Third paperbound printing, 1999
Designed by Linda Mae Tratechaud
Title page photograph by Norman Johnson
Earlier versions of sections of this manuscript were previously published
in The Texas Journal, Spring, 1992; Prairie Schooner, Winter, 1994;
and in the exhibition catalogue for Dar a Luz, Anne Wallace, 1992.
Page v
For my family on both sides of the border
Page vi
Brinca la tablita,
Yo ya la brinqu,
Brncala de vuelta,
Yo ya me cans.
Children's game
All photographs are memento mori.
Susan Sontag
The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta
where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.
Gloria Anzalda
Page vii
Contents
Introduction
xii
Prologue
1
Las Piscas
3
May
4
Crossings
5
Rocking Horse
5
On the Bridge
7
The Flood
9
Pepa
11
Esperanza
12
Tino
14
Perpetuo Socorro
15
Papi's Horse
15
Mamagrande
16
Los Pulido
18
Dahlia One
19
Mexican Citizen
21
Bueli
24
Azalia
25
Ojo de Agua
26
First Steps
28
Third Grade
29
Polticos
30
Nacho
31
Cowgirl
33
Comadres
35
Parade
37
China Poblana One
38
China Poblana Two
40
Green Organza
42
Margarita
43
Blue Stroller
45
Lola's Wedding
47
Mase
49
Nena at Three
53
Last Piata
54
Communions
56
Panchita
57
Body Hair
60
Declamacin
62
Doa Carmen
63
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