The Adventures of Don Chipote; Or, When Parrots Breast-Feed (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage) - Softcover

Venegas, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558852972 ISBN 13: 9781558852976

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 2000

Synopsis

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Daniel Venegas's novel -- first published in Los Angeles in 1928, and long lost to the public -- portrays, with wit tempered by empathy, the harsher aspects of America during the fabled Jazz Age. With bawdy humor and razor-sharp insight, THE ADVENTURES OF DON CHIPOTE relates the hapless journey of the poor rural farmer Don Chipote de JesAAs MarAAa DomAAnguez, who naively leaves behind his wife and children in Mexico to seek riches in the United States -- where, he is assured, one can sweep up gold dust from the streets and suck the nectar from the tree of life. The author's earthy satire is faithfully rendered by translator Ethriam Cash Brammer; edited and introduced by NicolAA s Kanellos.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

From Library Journal

From 1928 comes this humorous look at the immigration into the United States of Mexicans who were swept up in the myth of America's streets being paved with gold. Title character Don Chipote abandons his small plot of land and his family and drifts up to the Southwest, stumbling along the way into a series of misadventures with another tramp and a dog. This very early Hispanic comedy, while also parodying a serious subject, should still be fun.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1558852972
• ISBN 13: 9781558852976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Kanellos Brown Foundation Professor Of Hispanic Literature Nicolas