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Spa-Cancion del Colibri by Graciela Limon (Paperback / softback, 2006)

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From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Hummingbird - or Huitzitzilin in her native Nahuatl - recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico in Graciela Limon's vel, La cancion del colibri. Translated from the English-language vel originally published in 1996, Song of the Hummingbird, Huitzitzilin describes the wondrous arrival of the four-legged gods and the brutal devastation of her land and her people. She witnessed the obliteration of Techtitlan and suffered the loss of her identity - forced to discard her traditional garb, to speak a language foreign to her tongue and to forsake her ancestral gods. Expressing a confidence and freedom that women have strived for centuries to attain, Huitzitzilin passionately relates her tale to Father Benito, the priest who seeks to confess and convert her, to offer her absolution she neither needs r wants. Instead she forces him to see the conquest for the first time through the eyes of the conquered. In La cancion del colibri, Limon pays homage to the pre-Colombian woman, celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in the face of cataclysm, and mourns our collective loss of treasures more valuable than all the plundered riches and gold.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Arte Publico Press
ISBN-10
1558854495
ISBN-13
9781558854499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189658593

Product Key Features

Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Trade Paperback (US), Paperback / Softback
Language
English, English & Spanish, Spanish
Topic
Historical & Mythological Fiction
Author
Graciela Limon

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication
30/04/2006
Translated by
Ernesto Colin Alvarez
Country of Publication
United States

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