United States Work Projects Administration,Maria Teresa's Women's Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie PDF

By United States Work Projects Administration,Maria Teresa Marquez,Tey Diana Rebolledo

ISBN-10: 155885312X

ISBN-13: 9781558853126

on the top of the nice melancholy of the 1930's, the management of U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt instituted a Federal Writers undertaking as a part of a bigger Works development management (WPA), mammoth nationwide undertakings aimed toward getting the state again to paintings. many of us participated in compiling a chain of state-by-state courses to the rustic. different writers' initiatives incorporated the collection of folks songs and oral narratives by way of still-living ex-slaves.

New Mexico used to be one of the states partaking during this attempt, and one of the New Mexico undertaking staff have been ladies interviewers, Lou Sage Batchen and Annette Hesch Thorp, who put specific emphasis upon accumulating Hispanic women's tales, or cuentos. the 2 interviewed many local ancianos, collecting folktales in addition to taking pictures narratives and gleaning shiny aspect of a lifestyle now lengthy disappeared. Professors Tey Diana Rebolledo and María Teresa Márquez have combed via long-lost documents to recuperate those helpful first-hand bills, and feature prefaced the entire with an creation delving into many of the difficult cultural matters surrounding those records.

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