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- catalog abstract ""Based on Josefina Borquez, a working-class woman whose difficult life spanned some of the seminal events in early-twentieth-century Mexican history, Poniatowska's Jesusa is a tough, coarse-mouthed, cantankerous character who pushes contradiction to its limits. Mystical yet practical, she faces the obstacles in her path with gritty determination. A native of Oaxaca, Jesusa loses her mother at a young age, and she lives with her father until one of his girlfriends stabs her. Moved to her godmother's house, where she serves as a maid, Jesusa is reunited with her father during the Mexican Revolution, and joins the cavalry unit in the army of General Jesus Carranza. She marries another solider, a chronic womanizer who systematically abuses and finally abandons her. After the Revolution, embittered by its failure to live up to its promises to the poor, Jesusa finds work in Mexico City, first as a domestic, then in a series of factories, and begins her long history of run-ins with the police." "Poniatowska documents a life of brutal deprivation, extraordinary hardship, and hardscrabble humor while providing a unique perspective on politics and the place of women in twentieth-century Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Hasta no verte, Jesús mío. English".
- catalog contributor b12017737.
- catalog contributor b12017738.
- catalog coverage "Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Fiction.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Based on Josefina Borquez, a working-class woman whose difficult life spanned some of the seminal events in early-twentieth-century Mexican history, Poniatowska's Jesusa is a tough, coarse-mouthed, cantankerous character who pushes contradiction to its limits. Mystical yet practical, she faces the obstacles in her path with gritty determination. A native of Oaxaca, Jesusa loses her mother at a young age, and she lives with her father until one of his girlfriends stabs her. Moved to her godmother's house, where she serves as a maid, Jesusa is reunited with her father during the Mexican Revolution, and joins the cavalry unit in the army of General Jesus Carranza. She marries another solider, a chronic womanizer who systematically abuses and finally abandons her. After the Revolution, embittered by its failure to live up to its promises to the poor, Jesusa finds work in Mexico City, first as a domestic, then in a series of factories, and begins her long history of run-ins with the police." "Poniatowska documents a life of brutal deprivation, extraordinary hardship, and hardscrabble humor while providing a unique perspective on politics and the place of women in twentieth-century Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 303 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374168199 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng spa".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico".
- catalog subject "863/.64 21".
- catalog subject "PQ7297.P63 H313 2001".
- catalog subject "Women Mexico Fiction.".
- catalog title "Hasta no verte, Jesús mío. English".
- catalog title "Here's to you, Jesusa! / Elena Poniatowska ; translated from the Spanish by Deanna Heikkinen.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Mexican fiction 21st century.".
- catalog type "Mexican fiction New York (State) New York.".
- catalog type "text".