Format:
Book
Title:
Guerrero Viejo : essay / by Elena Poniatowska ; photography by Richard Payne.
Author:
Poniatowska, Elena.
Call Number:
972.12 P774gu
Publisher, Date:
Houston : Anchorage, c1997.
Description:
vii, 92 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Summary:
"Guerrero is the moving story of a once proud colonial town in Mexico, destroyed by 20th century progress. Between 1950 and 1954, the Mexican and U.S. government constructed the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande to control flooding downstream. The dam was engineered so that the reservoir's backwaters would inundate the town of Guerrero; as compensation, the Mexican government built a new city nearby to rehouse the displaced residents. Without warning, a flash food in 1953 prematurely filled the reservoir, forcing Viejo Guerrero citizens to flee, a traumatic incident still vividly recalled."--BOOK JACKET. "The haunting story of Guerrero is poignantly described in the words of Elena Poniatowska, one of Mexico's greatest living writers, and in the visual images of Richard Payne, one of Texas's best known photographers."--BOOK JACKET. "The ravages of time, in ironic revenge, have gradually exposed the pristine stone framework of its remaining buildings, delineating the outlines of a town that has been, in a twist of fate, reborn, like an ancient Greek temple. Guerrero Viejo, in spite of the devastation of time and nature, of floods and abandonment, is a place that will not die. This is a sorrowful tale, but one which reaffirms the emotional and spiritual connection we all have to the place we call home, and the power and magic of community."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Bilingual books.
Guerrero (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- History.
Guerrero (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- History -- Pictorial works.
Other Author:
Payne, Richard.
ISBN:
0965526801