The Harvest / La cosecha: Short Stories

by Tomás Rivera, Julián Olivares

Overview

Framed within the Odyssean cycle of migratory farmworkers, Rivera's stories are myths and parables that relate the universal themes of alienation, love and betrayal, man and nature, death and resurrection and the search for community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611925944
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	04/30/1989
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	372,284
File size:	166 KB

About the Author

TOMAS RIVERA (1935-1984) was born to a family of migrant farm workers in the South Texas town of Crystal City. In spite of moving constantly to work the crops, Rivera managed to graduate from high school. He went on to obtain a degree in English from Southwest Texas State University. He then earned a master’s degree in Spanish literature and a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures. He became a university administrator, and in 1979 he was appointed chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, a position he held for five years until his sudden death in 1984. His books published by Arte Público Press include The Harvest (1989), The Searchers (1990), the collection Tomás Rivera: The Complete Works (1991), and …y no se lo trago de la tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1992).