Bibliograph

Serafina's stories, Rudolfo Anaya

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Serafina's stories, Rudolfo Anaya

Language

eng

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

resource.interestGradeLevel

Adult

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Serafina's stories

Responsibility statement

Rudolfo Anaya

Review

"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

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.2, 9, 167103

Table Of Contents

Juan del Oso -- Miranda's gift -- The adventures of Pedro de Ordimalas -- Fabiano and Reyes -- The devil's godchild -- Marcos and María -- Two compadres -- The tree that sings -- The native -- Belda and the beast -- El Picaro -- The native lawyer

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