Serafina's stories
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Author
Publication
2004 - University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Language
English
Word Count
50,500 words, Guess
Page Count
202 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3292966M
- ISBN-100826335691
- OCLC Control Number55488050
- OCLC Control Numberserafinasstories00anay
- Library of Congress Control Number2004011783
and 2 more
- Goodreads341948
- LibraryThing813086
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3551.N27 S44 2004
Description
"New Mexico's master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government. When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is revealed as a young woman. Educated by the friars in her pueblo's mission church, Serafina speaks beautiful Spanish and surprises the Governor with her fearlessness and intelligence." "The two strike a bargain. She will entertain the Governor by telling him a story. If he likes her story, he will free one of the prisoners. Like Scheherezade, who prevented her royal husband from killing her by telling him stories, Serafina keeps the Governor so entertained with her versions of Nuevo Mexicano cuentos that he spares the lives of all her fellow prisoners." "Some of the stories Serafina tells will have a familiar ring to them, for they came from Europe and were New Mexicanized by the Spanish colonists. Some have Pueblo Indian plots and characters - and it is this blending of the two cultures that is Anaya's true subject."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genres
- Fiction.
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