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Title:

Breaking boundaries : Latina writing and critical readings / edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado ... [et al.].

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

1989

Description:

xv, 268 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Hispanic American women--Intellectual life--20th century.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Horno Delgado, Asunción, 1956-

Notes:

Bibliography: p.251-263.

Contents:

At the threshold of the unnamed : Latina literary discourse in the eighties / Eliana Ortega and Nancy Saporta Sternbach -- Heat and rain (testimonio) / Denise Chávez -- "Nopalitos" : the making of fiction (testimonio) / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Doña Josefa : bloodpulse of transition and change / Janice Dewey -- "A deep racial memory of love" : the Chicana feminism of Cherríe Moraga / Nancy Saporta Sternbach -- Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street : community-oriented introspection and the demystification of patriarchal violence / Ellen McCracken -- Deconstructing the dominant patriarchal text : Cecile Pineda's narratives / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- The ties that bind : women and community in Evangelina Vigil's Thirty an' seen a lot / Mary Jane Treacy.
The sardonic powers of the erotic in the work of Ana Castillo / Norma Alarcón -- Puerto Rican writers in the U.S., Puerto Rican writers in Puerto Rico : a separation beyond language (testimonio) / Nicholasa Mohr -- Open letter to Eliana (testimonio) / Sandra María Esteves -- Poetic discourse of the Puerto Rican woman in the U.S. : new voices of Anacaonian liberation / Eliana Ortega -- "Señores, don't leibol mi, please!! : ya soy Luz María Umpierre" / Asunción Horno-Delgado, translated by Janet N. Gold -- A commentary on the works of three Puerto Rican women poets in New York / Yamila Azize Vargas translated by Sonia Crespo Vega -- Latinas at the crossroads : an affirmation of life in Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales' Getting home alive / Lourdes Rojas.
The show does go on (testimonio) / Dolores Prida -- From immigrants to ethnics : Cuban women writers in the U.S. / Eliana Rivero -- Dolores Prida's Coser y cantar : mapping the dialectics of ethnic identity and assimilation / Albert Sandoval -- A Cuban-Panamanian-American-lawyer-writer now in Connecticut (testimonio) / Bessy Reyna -- An oral history (testimonio) / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso -- Marjorie Agosín as Latina writer / Nina M. Scott.

ISBN:

9780870236365 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
0870236369 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
9780870236358 (alk. paper) :
0870236350 (alk. paper) :

LCCN:

88017141

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)