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    A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon"
    A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon"
    A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon"
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    A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon"

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    A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535839853
    A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon"

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      A Study Guide for Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon" - Gale

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      The Street of the Cañón

      Josephina Niggli

      1945

      Introduction

      The Street of the Cañón is a short story originally published in Josephina Niggli's influential collection Mexican Village in 1945. Mexican Village contains ten different short stories that are woven together around the village of Hidalgo, Mexico. This was the first literary work by a Mexican American to reach a general American audience, according to Joseph Henry Dvorkin's Voices from the Gaps essay. The book was later adapted into the movie Sombrero.

      The Street of the Cañón is set in 1923 and explores the themes of love and courage. The two main characters, Sarita and Pepe, fall in love and take a risk to reunite two neighboring villages that have been feuding for a decade. The setting and culture of The Street of the Cañón are specific to Mexico, but the idea of forbidden love is universal.

      Author Biography

      Josephine Niggli was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, on July 13, 1910. She would later write under the names Josephina Niggli and then Josefina Niggli. Niggli's role in Mexican American literature is unique. Although she was born in Mexico, her parents were not Mexican but Caucasian Americans. Her father, a cement-plant manager in Hidalgo, Mexico, was from Texas, and her mother was from Virginia.

      Mexico was politically volatile when Niggli was young. The family left Mexico in 1913, after President Francisco Madero was assassinated. They returned to Mexico in 1920, but Niggli was sent to San Antonio, Texas, in 1925, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. She attended the University of the Incarnate Word, where she majored in philosophy. Niggli won several writing competitions while there. Her interest in writing led her to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1931, where she began her literary career and obtained a master's degree in

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