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Because I Don't Have Wings

By Philip Garrison

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Because I Don't Have Wings

By Philip Garrison

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For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant mexicanos are pioneers, still getting used to the Anglos and to each other. This book looks at the inner lives of Mexican immigrants in a northwestern U.S. boomtown, a loose collection of families from MichoacAn and surrounding states living a mere 150 miles from Canada. They are more isolated than most mexicano communities closer to home, and they endure severe winters that make life more difficult still. Neighborhoods form, dissolve, and re-form. Family members who leave may stay in touch, but friends very often simply vanish, leaving only their nicknames behind. Without a market or a plaza, residents meet at weddings, christenings, and funeralsaor at the food bank. Philip Garrison has spent most of his life in this region and shares in vivid prose tales of immigrant life, both contemporary and historical, revealing the dual lives of first-generation Mexican immigrants who move smoothly between the Yakima Valley and their homes in Mexico. And with a scholaras eye he examines figures of speech that reflect mexicano feelings about immigrant life, offering glimpses of adaptation through offhand remarks, family spats, and town gossip. Written with irony but bursting with compassion, "Because I Donat Have Wings" features vivid characters, telling anecdotes, and poignant reflections on life, unfolding an immigrantas world strikingly different from the one we usually read about. Adaptation, persistence, and survival, we learn, are traits that mexicano culture values. We alsolearn that, over time, mexicano immigrants donat merely adapt to the culture of el norte, they transform it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
149
Release Date:
2006-04-30
Publication Date:
2006-04-01
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0816525250
ISBN13:
9780816525256
Weight:
240 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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