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          <dc:title>Itakuchi: Echoes from the Twilight House</dc:title>
          <dc:creator>Nestor Gomez (1296837)</dc:creator>
          <dc:subject>Literary Studies</dc:subject>
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          <dc:description>Itakuchi, the cadejo, is no phantom or myth. It is an echo

Of both history and culture
Of the personal and traditional

Of memory and sound
Of exile and belonging

Of language and silence
Of withering and bloom

Wandering the hueco, the space between–The Twilight House–what was and what might be.

Itakuchi is not the cadejo of Salvadoran legend: 
a dog-like creature with goat hooves and alighted charcoal eyes
a black dog and a white dog
a predator along roads, forests, and the countryside

Itakuchi is:
a warden and chronicler of tales
the carrier of the sun through the silent dead night
the new American: displaced, indigenous, fragmented

mine, niné

Listen to Itakuchi’s whistling howl gently shiver the houses, the sounds carried on by wind. Its story, our story from The Twilight House, inscribed in sand along the Pacific Ocean and fracturing all over el mundo with  the help of friends

Rocío, my sister the Rain
Max, my brother the Snow and Ice
Sunbae, the Winds of Experience
Terrícola, the Earth
Tunal, the Sun and Breath

You may never know Itakuchi. Pero donde sea que te encuentres, when your hueco opens, it’ll find you.</dc:description>
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