Breaking boundaries : Latina writing and critical readings /

Breaking boundaries : Latina writing and critical readings / [electronic resource] edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado ... [et al.]. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. - xv, 268 p. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p.251-263.

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.



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American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Hispanic American women--Intellectual life.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Literatura americana--Mujeres como autoras--Historia y crítica.
Littérature américaine--Auteurs hispano-américains--Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Américaines d'origine latino-américaine--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine dans la littérature.
Spaans.
Amerikaans.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.

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