This Thursday, San Antonio’s World Heritage Heart will host a dialogue and book-release celebration centered round one of many metropolis’s most ominous fables: the Donkey Woman.
The dialogue will embody the writer, illustrator and writer of the brand new youngsters’s and young-adult ebook The Donkey Woman: A Graphic Parable (Aztlan Libre Press), which examines the enduring native legend of a horribly scarred girl who haunts the world round a South Facet bridge.
Ask sufficient Alamo Metropolis residents, and also you’re unlikely to obtain the identical model of the story twice. Some hint the girl’s origins to a grisly farm homicide by the hands of her husband. Some blame a stranger within the night time. Others don’t essentially have a suspect pinned down however consider she emerged in her present kind after being drowned beside her domesticated donkey.
The legend of the Donkey Woman is simply as sophisticated as her origin story, in line with the brand new title’s writer, Carmen Tafolla, a former San Antonio and Texas Poet Laureate and the writer of greater than 40 books. She can be joined for Thursday’s dialogue by illustrator Thelma Ortiz-Muraida and writer Juan Tejeda.
The Donkey Woman: A Graphic Parable calls the premise of the complete legend into query. Even when La Callada is a “monstrosity,” does that essentially make her evil? Why precisely does she hang-out the bridge, and what goes unsaid in our retellings? Is she extra human than we’ve been led to consider?
Chosen parts of the ebook can be on view by way of Tuesday, June 2, for many who miss the dialogue.
Free, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Might 28, World Heritage Heart, 3106 Roosevelt Ave., (210) 207-2111, www.worldheritagesa.com.
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