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Las hijas de Juan daughters betrayed
- Author / Creator
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- Summary
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Mexican American author Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
Details
- Creator
- Josie Méndez-Negrete
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Rev. ed
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780822338963, 9780822388395, 9780822338802, 0822338963, 0822388391, 0822338807
- OCLC
- on1148127820, ocn262341960
- Description based upon print version of record.
- English
- Prologue: Sin padre -- México lindo y querido = Dearest and beloved Mexico -- A donde iran los muertos? Quién sabe a donde iran = Where will the dead go? Who knows where they will go -- Buscando abrigo y no lo encontraran = Searching for shelter they will never find -- Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido = So far from the land that gave me birth -- She kept her head in a jar by the door = Mantuvo su cabeza en el jarrón junto a la puerta -- Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons, Bone by Bone -- Songs Quoted in Text
Subjects
- Mexican American women -- Biography.
- Mexican Americans -- Biography.
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- Biography.
- Incest victims -- United States -- Biography.
- Child sexual abuse -- Case studies.
- Mexican American families.
- Mexican American women -- Social conditions.
- Women's rights -- Case studies.
- Family violence -- Case studies.
- Méndez-Negrete, Josie -- Childhood and youth.