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The Medicine of Memory

其他書名	A Mexica Clan in California
出版	University of Texas Press, 2010-01-01
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & LatinoSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American StudiesHistory / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasHistory / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous
ISBN	02927787089780292778702
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DVZfAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋An American Book Award winner’s creative memoir “traces his own family's history, as well as the long story of Hispanics in America . . . Spirited writing” (Library Journal).

People who live in California deny the past, asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo, no one has the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred. From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been.

In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family’s reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he records, and draws us into, his own California history.