Description |
xxii, 393 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-384). |
Summary |
Offers examples of oral narratives and literature from the nineteenth century to the present. |
Contents |
Photographic Images: Some of the Contributors -- 1. Foremothers. I. The Oral Tradition. Excerpts from "Una Vieja Y Sus Recuerdos"-- Eufemia's Sopapillas. -- An Old Native Custom: La Curandera. -- Quiteria Outwits the Witch Nurse. -- Las Tres Gangozas (The Three Sisters). II. The Written Tradition. Asking For the Bride / Nina Otero-Warren. -- The Field Crosses of the Farmers / Nina Otero-Warren. -- The Herb Woman / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert. -- Shadows of the Past -- VI. Memorias / Cleofas M. Jaramillo. -- Flores Secas = Dried Flowers / Carmen Celia Beltran. -- Quinceanera = Sweet Fifteen / Carmen Celia Beltran. -- Drama en Mananitas = Drama in the Early Mornings / Maria Esperanza Lopez de Padilla. -- Maria Esperanza / Maria Esperanza Lopez de Padilla. -- Simplicidades = Simplicities / Maria Esperanza Lopez de Padilla. -- A Elena = To Elena / Maria Esperanza Lopez de Padilla. -- School / Esther Vernon Galindo -- 2. Self and Identity. So Not To Be Mottled / Bernice Zamora. -- My Name / Sandra Cisneros. -- Toma de nombre = Taking of Name / Miriam Bornstein. -- By Your True Faces We Will Know You / Gloria Anzaldua. -- El dia de la chicana / Gloria Anzaldua. -- Soy hija de mis padres... = I am the daughter of my parents / Lorenza Calvillo-Craig.-- La Loca de la Raza Cosmica / la Chrisx -- Crisis de identidad = Crisis of Identity / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Oaxaca, 1974 / Lorna Dee Cervantes.-- The Gift? / Sylvia S. Lizarraga. -- Chicana Studies / Rina Garcia Rocha. -- To Other Women Who Were Ugly Once / Ines Hernandez. -- Women Are Not Roses / Ana Castillo. -- Legal Alien / Pat Mora. -- To live in the Borderlands means you / Gloria Anzaldua. -- Mestiza / Marina Rivera.-- ever since / Veronica Cunningham. -- I sing to myself / Alma Villanueva. -- Progenitor / Bernice Zamora. -- From "A Letter to Alicia" / Ana Castillo. -- Whole / Ana Castillo. -- Desert Women / Pat Mora -- 3. Self and Others. My Mother Pieced Quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta. -- ser conforme / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. -- Haciendo Tamales / Cordelia Candelaria. -- Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- mi mama se sentaba = my mother would sit / Xelina. -- For the Color of My Mother / Cherrie Moraga. -- Baby Doll / Rina Garcia Rocha. -- The Album / Antonia Quintana Pigno. -- Section 3 from Mother, May I? / Alma Villanueva. -- Mama Tona / Marina Rivera. -- The Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes. -- Mourning a Sister's Death / Irene Blea. -- To a Little Blond Girl of Heber, Califas / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Wimpy's Wake / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Arturo Burro / Sandra Cisneros. -- mente joven... / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. -- El sueno de las flores / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- On Meeting You in Dream and Remembering Our Dance / Denise Chavez. -- Chon / Marina Rivera. -- after the name-giving / Ines Hernandez (T'oma'hto'hla'hkikt, Ines). -- To My Daughter / Alma Villanueva. -- Nuestros mundos = Our Worlds / Lucha Corpi. -- Plot / Pat Mora. -- The Toltec / Ana Castillo. -- South Sangamon / Sandra Cisneros. -- The Jewelry Collection of Marta la Guera / Mary Helen Ponce. -- Do You Take? / Bernice Zamora. -- Para un Revolucionario / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- A Woman Was Raped / Veronica Cunningham. -- For Virginia Chavez / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- Crow / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- 4. Spaces. La Casa / The House / Maria Herrera-Sobek. -- kitchen talk / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. -- New Year's Eve / Rina Garcia Rocha. -- Section 5 from Mother, May I? / Alma Villanueva. -- Spaces like the Barrio / Irene Blea. The Truth in My Eves / Rina Garcia Rocha. -- The Journey / Patricia Preciado Martin. -- was fun running 'round descalza / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. -- Caminitos / Carmen Tafolla. -- Roads / Barbara Brinson Curiel. -- The Valley of the Sun / Gina Valdes. -- Fecundating / Bernice Zamora. -- El retorno / Gloria Anzaldua. -- Drought: San Joaquin Valley, Winter / Barbara Brinson Curiel. -- La Gran Ciudad / Angela De Hoyos. -- The Border / Gina Valdes. -- tia juana u glisten / Xelina. -- tavern taboo / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon -- 5. Myths and Archetypes. Aztec Princess / Pat Mora. -- Marina / Lucha Corpi. -- La Malinche / Carmen Tafolla. -- La Malinche a Cortez y Vice Versa / La Malinche to Cortez and Vice Versa / Angela de Hoyos. -- Somos la Tierra / Beverly Sanchez-Padilla. -- Malinche's Discourse / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Malinche Past: Selection from Paletitas de guayaba / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry. -- Malinchista, A Myth Revised / Alicia Gaspar de Alba. -- Como Duele / Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell. -- Go Away from My Window, La Llorona (1) / Cordelia Candelaria. -- La Llorona: At Sixteen; Portrait by the River / Cordelia Candelaria. -- La Llorona / Naomi Quinonez. -- Witches' Blood / Alma Villanueva. -- The Three Sisters / Sandra Cisneros. -- Hands / Pat Mora. -- 1910 / Pat Mora. -- Josefina's Chickens / Gina Valdes. -- Adelita / Ana Montes. -- Guerrillera Soy = I Am a Warrior Woman / Ines Hernandez. -- Sor Juana / Estela Portillo Trambley. -- 444 Years After / Carmen Tafolla. -- Little Miracles, Kept Promises / Sandra Cisneros. -- Gullible / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Cuento de Hadas = Fairy Tale / Angela de Hoyos. -- Mi Reflejo / Lydia Camarillo -- 6. Writers on Language and Writing. A Poet's Job / Alma Villanueva. -- It Is My Nature / Alma Villanueva. -- Creations / Irene Blea. -- Cuentista: Story-teller / Pat Mora. Clever Twist / Pat Mora. Restless Serpents / Bernie Zamora. -- Como la semilla = Like the Seed / Lucha Corpi. -- Protocolo de verduras = The Protocol of Vegetables / Lucha Corpi. -- Para el consumidor = For the Consumer / Miriam Bornstein. -- Maybe a Nun After All / Pat Mora. -- Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend Washington / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe In The War Between Races / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- Declaration on a Day of Little Inspiration / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- Literary Wetback / Alicia Gaspar de Alba. -- Refugee Ship / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- Linguistic Terrorism / Gloria Anzaldua. -- Julieta's Muses / Judy Gonzales-Flores. -- They Are Laying Plans for Me -- Those Curanderas / Teresa Palomo Acosta. -- Poema Inedito = Unpublished Poem / Maria Herrera-Sobek. -- Mi Poesia = My Poetry / Maria Herrera-Sobek. -- Dedicated to American Atomics II / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Lirica fanatica = Fanatic Lyric / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Desveladas inutiles = Useless Sleeplessness / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. The Confession / Naomi Quinonez. -- como embrujada / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon.-- Paradox / Ana Castillo. -- Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes / Sandra Cisneros -- 7. Growing-Up. Growing / Helena Maria Viramontes. -- Aay Cucuy...! = "Ooooh! The Boogieman!" / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Nostalgia / Margarita Cota-Cardenas. -- Pueblo, 1950 / Bernice Zamora. -- Elena at 5 Years / Demetria Martinez. -- Troublemaker (for all who ask what I plan to do with my degree) / Demetria Martinez. -- Excerpts from "Rosebud" / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry. -- How I Changed the War and Won the Game / Mary Helen Ponce. -- Velorio / Sandra Cisneros. -- Evening in Paris / Denise Chavez. -- Monarquia / Sylvia Lizarraga. -- Para Teresa / Ines Hernandez. -- I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid / Alma Villanueva. -- In the Toolshed / Patricia Santana-Bejar. -- Her Choice / Alma Villanueva -- 8. Celebrations. My Poetry / Sylvia Chacon. -- Fire / Barbara Brinson Curiel. -- Movimiento = Movement / Lucha Corpi. -- Let Us Never Forget the Dance / Alma Villanueva. -- He was one of those special ones, she said / Ines Hernandez. -- The Ceremony of Orgasm / Alma Villanueva. -- Mielvirgen / Pat Mora. -- Spring Tonic / Pat Mora. Dream / Pat Mora. -- The Body as Braille / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- Como lo siento / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- Making Tortillas / Alicia Gaspar de Alba. -- Bearded Lady / Bernice Zamora. -- Two Brothers / Beverly Silva. -- Plumb / Bernice Zamora. -- Segments / Cordelia Candelaria. -- Emplumada / Lorna Dee Cervantes. -- 'San Antonio Rose' Era Xicana / Angela de Hoyos. -- Sin Ti Yo No Soy Nada = Without You I Am Nothing / Beverly Silva. -- The Paris Gown / Estela Portillo Trambley. -- Weeping With Laughter / Gina Valdes |
Subject |
American literature -- Mexican American authors.
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Mexican American women -- Literary collections.
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Mexican Americans -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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Added Author |
Rebolledo, Tey Diana, 1937-
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Rivero, Eliana S. (Eliana Suarez), 1940-
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ISBN |
0816513848 (pbk. : acid free paper) |
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9780816513840 (pbk. : acid free paper) |
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0816512523 (acid free paper) |
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9780816512522 (acid free paper) |
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