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Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects through the lenses of cultural studies, critical race theory, narrative theory, and border studies. These narratives cover the United States, the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula and illustrate a shared diasporic experience across the Atlantic. Through a transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational lens, this volume brings together essays on literature, film, and music from disparate geographic areas: Spain, Cuba and Jamaica, the U.S.-Mexico border, and Colombia. Throughout the volum...
A gripping tale of a beautiful flamenco dancer from Spain with an aristocratic pedigree, and the only child to an overbearing famous bullfighter. She journeys to America on a dance tour in New York City, fulfilling a childhood dream to see America the Beautiful! The Carlota Pena Flamenco Dance Troupe makes their way across America on their Flamenco Rojo, Blanco, y Azul Tour, closing out the tour in California where she meets and falls in love with an American. Opposing her father's adamant wishes, she does not return home to Spain. Instead, she marries and soon gives birth to a daughter named Magdalena. She will encounter an unforeseen event that will alter the course of her very life. The story picks up twenty-six years later . . . Magdalena is an FBI agent on the hunt for an elusive serial killer. Her spiritual life is ignited through a chance encounter with an old schoolmate. As God ushers her to a twenty-seven-year-old cold case, where the seal is broken from her concealed past, she will learn to master her trust in God as she comes face-to-face with a pernicious dark evil, discovering her authority over all the power of her true enemy.
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When Geoffrey Groundhog pops out of his hole to predict the weather, he is blinded by television cameras and lights and is unable to see if he has a shadow. No one in town knows how to proceed, so Geoffrey needs help fast.
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The Civil War in New Mexico began in 1861 with the Confederate invasion and occupation of the Mesilla Valley. At the same time, small villages and towns in New Mexico Territory faced raids from Navajos and Apaches. In response the commander of the Department of New Mexico Colonel Edward Canby and Governor Henry Connelly recruited what became the First and Second New Mexico Volunteer Infantry. In this book leading Civil War historian Jerry Thompson tells their story for the first time, along with the history of a third regiment of Mounted Infantry and several companies in a fourth regiment. Thompson’s focus is on the Confederate invasion of 1861–1862 and its effects, especially the bloody...
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