I enjoy watching you connect literature to location in your readings and travels. I love to connect a book with a journey, my best one ever being to read Lonesome Dove while driving my family all over the American southwest. Also good: All the Light We Cannot See in France last fall. Travel is narrative!
Dear Kaplana interesting view of our celebration. A comment is not Dios de los Muertos but Día de Muertos. A point of view that attracted my attention is "early November and it is widely observed in Mexico as well as in other places, especially by people of Mexican heritage.". The celebration starts the 28th October in memory of those people that were dead in an accident. The tradition devotes a day to the people according to the way they died. It is used to correspond to the organisation of the Mictlan (kingdom of the death) of the Aztecs. Finally, what does it mean "people of Mexican origin", in Mexico most of the population even those that are indigenous are of Mexican origin in some degree. For better or worst it is only very recent that the hegemonic eye (not decolonisation) started to talk about Mexicans that have and do not have (!) Mexican origin. Thank you for sharing your experience in Mexico it touches me to see that you enjoyed the visit and that you could discover with new eyes some elements of the culture. Cheers Genoveva
Thank you so much, Genoveva, for the clarification. Wow, why did I see “Dios” in some places? In fact I went back to check that I got it right before I put it out. Your points are well taken, thank you so much.
Oh how fun to see your review of Amparo Davila's work. She's a character in Christina Rivera Garza's novel The Iliac Crest, and I've been meaning to look her up -- having read Garza's novel, I wasn't sure if Davila was a real person or not :) Love this. And thank you for the pictures!
I enjoy watching you connect literature to location in your readings and travels. I love to connect a book with a journey, my best one ever being to read Lonesome Dove while driving my family all over the American southwest. Also good: All the Light We Cannot See in France last fall. Travel is narrative!
Dear Kaplana interesting view of our celebration. A comment is not Dios de los Muertos but Día de Muertos. A point of view that attracted my attention is "early November and it is widely observed in Mexico as well as in other places, especially by people of Mexican heritage.". The celebration starts the 28th October in memory of those people that were dead in an accident. The tradition devotes a day to the people according to the way they died. It is used to correspond to the organisation of the Mictlan (kingdom of the death) of the Aztecs. Finally, what does it mean "people of Mexican origin", in Mexico most of the population even those that are indigenous are of Mexican origin in some degree. For better or worst it is only very recent that the hegemonic eye (not decolonisation) started to talk about Mexicans that have and do not have (!) Mexican origin. Thank you for sharing your experience in Mexico it touches me to see that you enjoyed the visit and that you could discover with new eyes some elements of the culture. Cheers Genoveva
Thank you, Genoveva, for filling in some helpful details for those of us at a distance!
Thank you so much, Genoveva, for the clarification. Wow, why did I see “Dios” in some places? In fact I went back to check that I got it right before I put it out. Your points are well taken, thank you so much.
Oh how fun to see your review of Amparo Davila's work. She's a character in Christina Rivera Garza's novel The Iliac Crest, and I've been meaning to look her up -- having read Garza's novel, I wasn't sure if Davila was a real person or not :) Love this. And thank you for the pictures!