Three provocative plays by Cuban-American dramatist Alejandro Morales. Mixing gothic horror, humor and Lorquian homages, this collection is a bold look at new US Latino drama's possibilities. Prefaced by interview with award-winning playwright Caridad Svich

Alejandro Morales: Collected Plays (Dreaming the Americas)

Literature & Fiction

Morales, Alejandro

Dramas & Plays

NoPassport Press

This engrosing historical novel traces the growth of California from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries by following in the development of the Simons Brick Factory. With an attention to historical reality blended with myth and legend, the prolific Morales recounts the epic struggle of a people to forge their destiny, along with Califonia's.

The Brick People

United States

Arte Publico Press

Old Faces and New Wine

Maize Pr

Acclaimed American Latino author, ALEJANDRO MORALES, author of numerous novels, short story collections, and nonfiction, presents his first book of poetry to the world:Zapote Tree. The son of Mexican immigrants, Dr. Morales became a well-regarded professor at University of California, Irvine, for 40 years, where he mentored and inspired generations of scholars until his recent retirement. Zapote Tree brings together 34 poems pulsing with insights, imagery, love of family and his culture, plus hard truths about socioeconomic and sociopolitical inequities in society. This book's unforgettable characters--migrants, mothers, elders, mythological figures, alcoholics, heroes, villains, and spirits -- expand our understanding of diverse cultures, such as those Dr. Morales straddles with wisdom and compassion.

Zapote Tree

Literary

Golden Foothills Press

A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His Majesty's highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plague, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.

The Rag Doll Plagues

Arte Publico Pr

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The West was a place where anything was possible, and Los Angeles was the heart of that promise. Alejandro Morales introduces two very different families and an unpredictable river to explore the allure of Southern California and the history of Los Angeles. From these two families of bridge builders emerges a story of interconnectedness, a unique system of relations linking both sides of the river. Through the Rivers and the Kellers' families, we enter a multi-cultural sphere of darkness and despair juxtaposed with hope and joy; times of violent discrimination contrasted with loving acceptance. Although these two families come from different backgrounds ethnic, social, and linguistic their lives and fortunes become inextricably linked through their children, whose illicit love affair leads to tragedy, their families infected, wrenched apart by racism and the pseudo-science of eugenics propounded during the 1950s. River of Angels is a richly detailed look at those who have lived on both sides of the river: Native people, Europeans, Latinos, blacks, and Asians, people making their home in the West, sojourners in need of bridges of understanding. Acclaimed novelist Alejandro Morales excavates the layered history of Los Angeles in this stirring epic of love, loss, sin and redemption.

River of Angels

I'm sick of you punks, Micaela said. And I m warning you now. I'm going to get you for that murder! In the title story, the Latino community in East L.A. suffers horrible gang-related violence. Children are killed in the crossfire and young people use and sell drugs. But the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl is the last straw for Micaela Clemencia, a local teacher. With the help of other women in the neighborhood, Micaela keeps her promise to punish the murderer. And much to the dismay of the police and other city officials, the women take control of the barrio, their little nation. While some characters face a violent world driven by greed, others long for a sense of belonging or a place to call their own. In Mama Concha, a grandmother shares her ancient wisdom with her grandson, teaching him to appreciate the land and the fruits and vegetables she grows. In The Gardens of Versailles, a home with beautiful gardens is a local favorite, until it stands in the way of progress that will benefit the entire community. And in Prickles, an artist who is a grotesque oddity because of the thorny tumors that sprout all over his body develops a special, unusual relationship with the Virgin of Guadalupe. Alejandro Morales returns to his native Southern California community of Montebello in four of these five stories. Originally written in Spanish, this volume includes the first-ever English translation of these thought-provoking stories, in which Morales explores the Chicano community's marginalization and search for a space to call its own.

Little Nation & Other Stories

The Place of the White Heron: A Novel

Tia Chucha

Este volumen corresponde a la edad madura de un hombre que sigue consagrando su vida al examen, al estudio y al ejercicio de plasmar la realidad cotidiana, por más austera que sea, de su tierra natal, Aztlán. En sus páginas, Morales reúne tres cuentos con una intensa coherencia que deriva de la incoherencia radical acarreada por la discriminación y por sus violentos corolarios. En el primer plano, figura el consabido antagonista del Establishment WASP cuya corrupción institucionalizada—desplegada por, entre otros, el derecho a expropiar los medios masivos y un ubicuo “circo de sheriffs”—incita al pueblo chicano a innovar en su eterna lucha por la justicia. Así, pues, no es de sorprender que esta pequeña nación se convierta en campo de batalla donde los gritos desembocan en la voz colectiva de resistencia que caracteriza la mayor parte de las letras chicanas pero, como esta pugna la evoca, la imaginación inaudita de un escritor cuyo fuego creador sigue en efervescencia, es de notar que dicha resistencia se catalice por unos ingredientes poco convencionales que podrían agruparse bajo el rubro de “la anomalía”.

Pequeña nación: Tres novelas cortas (Serie imaginación) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Orbis Press

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Alejandro Morales: Collected Plays (Dreaming the Americas)

The Brick People

Old Faces and New Wine

Zapote Tree

The Rag Doll Plagues

The Rag Doll Plagues

River of Angels

Little Nation & Other Stories

The Place of the White Heron: A Novel

Pequeña nación: Tres novelas cortas (Serie imaginación) (Spanish Edition)