Triptych: Memories of the San Fernando Valley

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: Maize for the Metate ix
4. Phantoms in the mirror 1
5. The “good old mission days” never existed 15
6. Josefa of Downieville: The Obscure Life and Notable Death of a Chicana in Gold Rush California 38
7. Triptych: Memories of the San Fernando Valley 57
8. Gathering thunder 94
9. Tropi(lo)calidad Macondo in La Mission 118
10. Petroglyph of memory 147
11. The Marin headlands: A Meditation on Place 175
12. The homecoming of an Azteca-mexica clan 190
13. Notes 209
14. Selected bibliography 219
15. Acknowledgments 227