Rosa Martha Villarreal's Writings
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Feb.07.2013
Somos en Escrito
Richard Rios’s Songs from the Barrio: A Coming of Age in Modesto, CA is more than just one man’s recollection of his coming of age. The book’s narrative provides an intimate, archetypal portrait of “a people cut off from their homeland and their mother tongue, adrift and searching for a port in a foreign land,” the organic evolution of a unique...
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Essay
Jul.20.2012
In the spring of 2006, the cable television network Showtime re-released Liza Minnelli’s 1972 Emmy Award-winning special “Liza With a Z.” The New York Times television critic concluded after re-watching the show that Ms. Minnelli wasn’t a has-been; she was a “never was.’ In retrospective, the same can be said for the Age of Aquarius.
The aspirations of that...
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Essay
Jul.20.2012
In the spring of 2006, the cable television network Showtime re-released Liza Minnelli’s 1972 Emmy Award-winning special “Liza With a Z.” The New York Times television critic concluded after re-watching the show that Ms. Minnelli wasn’t a has-been; she was a “never was.’ In retrospective, the same can be said for the Age of Aquarius. The aspirations of that...
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Jul.17.2012
Mexidata.info/Tertulia Magazine
The issue of language keeps coming up in the polemics about Spanish-speaking immigrants in the U.S.A. and the integration of Mexico into the North American Union. Though many times the opinions expressed in these debates are thinly veiled hostilities towards the Spanish language and Hispanic culture, there is actually a valid argument with regards to the...
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Jul.17.2012
Mexidata.info/Tertulia Magazine Sept. 2008
Eleven years after its publication, Carlos Fuentes’s A New Time For Mexico (University of California Press) remains an insightful analysis of Mexico on the cusp of modernity. In his chapter, “So Far from God,” Mr. Fuentes provides his perspective of the troubled relations between Mexico and the United States, beginning with the 1846 War and ending with the...
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Jul.17.2012
Tertulia Magazine Jan. 15, 2009
Social critics and anthropologists frequently talk about a culture’s or people’s sense of centrality---i.e., viewing the world through the lens of its/their unique perspective. It is difficult and nearly impossible for peoples to detach themselves from their own narratives and sense of “universality.” We see this phenomenon in the Arab-Israeli conflict and,...
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Essay
Jul.17.2012
Tertulia Magazine,12-28-08
At the end of Evan S. Connell’s novel Mrs. Bridge, the protagonist, finding herself alone after her husband’s death and her children’s departure, rediscovers photographs long forgotten. There, in snapshots of time frozen, were the images of a life that passed her without much notice or reflection. It is only after her life has exhausted itself that those...
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Essay
Jul.17.2012
Tertulia Magazine,12-28-08
At the end of Evan S. Connell’s novel Mrs. Bridge, the protagonist, finding herself alone after her husband’s death and her children’s departure, rediscovers photographs long forgotten. There, in snapshots of time frozen, were the images of a life that passed her without much notice or reflection. It is only after her life has exhausted itself that those...
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Oct.30.2010
Tertulia Magazine, Fall 2010
From Here to There And Other Stories
by Patty Somlo
www.paraguasbooks.com
Franz Kafka was one of the first writers to explore a realm of the modern existence that defied the formulations (and, thus, conventions) of philosophic and literary heroism: those of Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Aristotle’s Poetics posit that the hero is a person of high...
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Article
Oct.30.2010
Tertulia Magazine, Fall 2010
From Here to There And Other Stories
by Patty Somlo
www.paraguasbooks.com
Franz Kafka was one of the first writers to explore a realm of the modern existence that defied the formulations (and, thus, conventions) of philosophic and literary heroism: those of Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Aristotle’s Poetics posit that the hero is a person of high...
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About Rosa
Rosa Martha Villarreal is a native Texan whose family origins date back to the early Spanish colonies of Northern Mexico in the 1500s. A direct descendant of several founding families of Texas, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, Villarreal has dedicated her life to...
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Causes Rosa Villarreal Supports
Non-ideological, critical, free-thinking.
Equal Rights for Women.