Ramona
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, I would be thankful the rest of my life.” Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller. A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair's adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Angl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-75848-4
- EAN: 9780307758484
- Produktnummer: 15734290
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'226 KB
Über den Autor
Denise Chávez, a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, is the author of Loving Pedro Infante, Face of an Angel, and The Last of the Menu Girls. She lives in New Mexico.
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