Las hijas de Juan : daughters betrayed

Las hijas de Juan : daughters betrayed /

Mexican American author Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.

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Main Author: Méndez-Negrete, Josie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006
Edition:Revised edition
Series:Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:
Méndez-Negrete, Josie > Childhood and youth.
Mendez-Negrete, Josie > Childhood and youth.
Mexican American women > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Migrant agricultural laborers > United States > Biography.
Incest victims > United States > Biography.
Child sexual abuse > Case studies.
Mexican American families.
Mexican American women > Social conditions.
Women's rights > Case studies.
Family violence > Case studies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Sin padre
  • México lindo y querido = Dearest and beloved Mexico
  • A donde iran los muertos? Quién sabe a donde iran = Where will the dead go? Who knows where they will go
  • Buscando abrigo y no lo encontraran = Searching for shelter they will never find
  • Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido = So far from the land that gave me birth
  • She kept her head in a jar by the door = Mantuvo su cabeza en el jarrón junto a la puerta
  • Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons, Bone by Bone
  • Songs Quoted in Text.

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