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Tinisima
by Elena Poniatowska
Using quotations from actual letters, characters under their
actual names, and events straight out of history, Mexican
novelist Elena Poniatowska has reimagined the life of actress
and Communist agent Tina Modotti. Modotti was the lover of
photographer Edward Weston, the friend of Diego Rivera and
other artists, and an agent for the Soviet Union during the
murky events of the Spanish Civil War.
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Guerrero
Viejo by Elena Poniatowska, Richard Payne (Photographer)
Celebrated as a triumphant collaboration between the American
and Mexican governments, the damming of the Rio Grande in
the early 1950s was expected to prove highly beneficial to
the valley inhabitants of both countries. The success of this
project, however, necessitated the gradual submersion of the
colonial city of Guerrero beneath the water of the man-made
reservoir. The inhabitants were uprooted and displaced, robbed
of their land, their sense of community, their places of worship,
study, and play--even their graves. Guerrero Viejo--simultaneously
in Spanish and English text--is a haunting tale of power and
priorities, of a place sentenced to die.
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