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Title: Chicana Falsa : And Other Stories of Death, Identity, & Oxnard by Michele Serros ISBN: 1-57322-685-8 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Mediocre at best
Comment: Being a mexican-american myself, I bought this book hoping this would be another gem of a book lending insight into the mexican-american experience, or any experiece for that matter. But this thin little book is a disappointment. The short stories are wrought with a bitterness and hostility towards anyone who crosses the narrator's path. Serros' tries too hard to convey her narrators as victims -- I even know that you don't have to be a chicana to have family members discourage you early on from becoming what you want to be when you grow up, which seems to be a central theme in her book -- that people in her youth kept holding her back. This theme gets really old really quickly. Serros should have stuck to her more humorous side than to resort to the whining and self-pity.
Rating: 5
Summary: Viva Michele Serros!
Comment: Michele Serros collection of 26 stories and poems about the Chicano/a experience living in Oxnard proves brilliant. Issues of language, gender, race, memory, and ethnic isolation are blended with irony, humor and wit through simple poetry that speaks volumes about the complexity of living in our Chicana/o pueblo/community. My favorite poems included "La Letty," "Tag Banger's Last Can," "Manos Morenas" and the excellent "Dead Pig's Revenge."
This book is a homage to Serros' mother who passed on, leaving the artistic touch to her daughter. Thus, Chicana Falsa proves to be a testament to Serros' role as a torch bearer and carrier of excellent artistic and cultural contributions by brilliant Chicana escritoras.
This book is an excellent read for students being introducted to Chicana/o literature. Students in high school and college will benefit either in creative writing courses, literature courses or women's studies courses.
Este libro tiene la energia y fuerza que se requiere para contar nuestras vidas con honor, dignidad y memoria. Viva Michele! Gracias for this, your gift to us!
Rating: 1
Summary: A Premature Publication
Comment: REALLY wanted to like this book and was excited when I bought it. Unfortunately, Serros' writing is not ready for publication. The writing could have been written by any mediocre student in any creative writing class, and this makes me realize how desperate publishers must be for writing by young Latinos, especially those who are not writing "barrio" literature. I am glad, for her sake, that Serros' book was published, but I am sad, also, that publishers are snatching manuscripts up without more attention to depth, unique voice, fresh ideas, and basic good writing. As Chicanas, we've got to raise our standards in terms of what we consider excellent writing. Let's look to good, classic models in literature and try to learn from that. Only then will we see Chicanas attaining the literary status of black writers like Toni Morrison or Alice Walker? Where is our Chicana Toni Morrison or Rita Dove????
If you are looking for quality writing by a young chicana, keep looking (and let me know if you find anything!)
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Title: How to Be a Chicana Role Model by Michele Serros ISBN: 1573228249 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Last Tortilla & Other Stories by Sergio Troncoso ISBN: 0816519617 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
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Title: Growing Up Chicana/o by Bill Adler, A Lopez ISBN: 0380724197 Publisher: Perennial Currents Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Latino USA: A Cartoon History by Ilan Stavans, Lalo Alcaraz ISBN: 0465082211 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Hearts and Hands: Making Peace in a Violent Time by Luis J. Rodriguez ISBN: 1583222634 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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