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9780393076424

Madre Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

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    9780393076424

  • ISBN10:

    0393076423

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-15
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while iexcl;queacute; padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres to padres ? Thus begins a journey through Mexican culture in all its color: weddings, dinner parties, an artist's studio, heart-stopping taxi rides, angry journalists, corrupt politicians, Blessed Virgins, and mothers both sacred and profane. Along the way, a reader discovers not only an invaluable lexicon of Mexican slang (to be used with caution or not at all) but also thought-provoking reflections on the evolution of language; its winding path through culture, religion, and politics; and, not least, what it means-and what it threatens-to be a creative female, a madre .

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