Cuadernos volume I issue 2 - Narrating Death
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- Title
- Cuadernos volume I issue 2 - Narrating Death
- Description
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The year 2020 was defined by the COVID-19 global pandemic, which decimated many Manito families and communities. In response, the Manito Community Memory Project (MCMP), with support from the American Recovery Act, National Endowment for the Humanities, initiated a series of publications, designed and illustrated by two MCMP graphic design interns, to help Manitos address the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic through connection to their history, cultural heritage, and to each other.
Narrating Death, Volume One, Issue Two of the publication series, reprints twenty obituaries in Spanish with English translation, that were published on November 22,1918 in the weekly Spanish language newspaper La Revista de Taos, connecting the COVID-19 crisis to the story of the 1918 global influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. The cuaderno format pays homage to the small journals or notebooks traditionally used by Manitos to record all kinds of information.
The cover image of Narrating Death depicts a periodista, a Spanish language journalist, working at his desk on a typewriter in a newspaper office that includes a printing press. The image honors the importance to their communities of Spanish-language journalists who published local newspapers and their role in protecting the language and unique cultural identity of Manitos against the forces of assimilation that began when New Mexico became a territory of the United States in 1848.
The image is bordered by lavender flowers from a drought-tolerant and sun-loving plant that is well-adapted to the region.
- Rights Holder
- Manitos Community Memory Project
- Creator
- Estevan Rael-Galvez, Project Director
- Mimi Roberts, Project Manager
- Shane Flores, Project Researcher
- Natasha Vasquez, Graphic Designer
- Lily Padilla, Graphic Artist
- Graphic Arts Mentor
- Date Created
- 2021
- Format
- Language
- English
- Spanish
- Publisher
- Manitos Community Memory Project
- Contributor
- Mimi Roberts, Project Manager
- Shane Flores, Project Manager
- Natasha Vasquez, Graphic Artist
- Lily Padilla, Graphic Artist
- Mariah Fox Hausman, Graphic Arts Mentor
- Spatial Coverage
- Northern New Mexico & Southern Colorado
- Item sets
- Manitos Cuaderno Series
