Under the Feet of Jesus

出版者:Penguin USA

作者:Viramontes, Helena Maria

页数:192

出版时间:1996

价格:102.00元

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780452273870

图书标签:美国文学美国文学migrantidentityfood

Migrant Mexicans shackled to a life of itinerant farm labor form the backdrop for a summer in the life of young Estrella and her family. Seemingly a prescription for sorrow, in Viramontes' hands the canvas instead teems with color and builds toward hope for a liberating future--at least for Estrella. Her mother, Petra, and stepfather, Perfecto, remain confined to their tattered possessions and dusty poverty, and much of Viramontes' imagery--imaginative and allusive descriptions of land, orchards, and worn-out clothes--fix in readers' minds that they will not escape. Estrella, too, partakes of this despair of the migrant's world, but being young she is not resign to her seeming fate. Her feelings culminate when she smashes up a nurse's office, goaded by the nurse's insensitivity to the family's privation and shortage of cash. That shock quickly abates, but the anger elides into an ethereal mood as Perfecto weighs abandoning the family while Estrella wanders through a barn to scatter then reattract a flock of symbolic birds. A chromatically impressionistic novella that should hit home in Latin literature collections.

用户评价

最后有点心酸

最后有点心酸

最后有点心酸

最后有点心酸

写得很好，但看得我心情浮躁。最喜欢她威胁护士那段。