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Reading U.S. Latina Writers

Remapping American Literature

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  • © 2003

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  1. Alvina E. Quintana
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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Alvina E. Quintana
    Pages 1-6

  3. Julia Alvarez, In The Time of the Butterflies

    • Rosa Linda Fregoso
    Pages 7-14

  4. Julia Alvarez, ¡ Yo!

    • Karen Gaffney
    Pages 15-23

  5. Veronica Chambers, Mama’s Girl

    • Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo
    Pages 25-36

  6. Denise Chávez, Face of an Angel

    • Theresa Delgadillo
    Pages 37-50

  7. Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

    • Barbara Brinson Curiel
    Pages 51-60

  8. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

    • Frances R. Aparicio
    Pages 61-70

  9. Montserrat Fontes, First Confession

    • Norma Cantú
    Pages 71-76

  10. Maria Irene Fornes, The Conduct of Life

    • Tiffany Ana Lopez
    Pages 77-89

  11. Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

    • Andrea O’Reilly Herrera
    Pages 91-102

  12. Diana García, When Living Was a Labor Camp

    • Juan Felipe Herrera
    Pages 103-112

  13. Alicia Gaspar de Alba, “The Mystery of Survival”

    • Rosa Morillas-Sánchez
    Pages 113-128

  14. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, The Pearl of the Antilles

    • Claudia Sadowski-Smith
    Pages 129-140

  15. Nicholasa Mohr, A Matter of Pride and Other Stories

    • Lisa Sánchez González
    Pages 141-149

  16. Cherríe Moraga, Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios

    • Dionne Espinoza
    Pages 151-162

  17. Marisela Norte, NORTE/word

    • Michelle Habell-Pallán
    Pages 163-172

  18. Loida Maritza Pérez, Geographies of Home

    • Alvina E. Quintana
    Pages 173-179

  19. Ana Lydia Vega, True and False Romances

    • Lesley Feracho
    Pages 181-196

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 197-212
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About this book

This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of the book - that is, combining both US Latina and Latin American women writers - is significant because it introduces a more global and transnational way of approaching the literature. The introduction outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature, the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the traditions and influences that shape the works; and key critical issues of which teachers should be aware. The collection seeks to provide readers with a variety of Latina texts that will guarantee its long-term usefulness to teachers and students of pan-American literature. Because it is no longer possible to understand U.S. Latina literature without taking into consideration the histories and cultures of Latin America, the volume will, through its organization, argue for a more globalized type of analysis which considers the similarities as well as the differences in U.S. and Latin American women's cultural productions. In this context, the term Latina evokes a diasporic, transnational condition in order to address some of the pedagogical issues posed by the bicultural nature which is inherent in pan-American women's literature.

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"No one could have done this book better than Alvina Quintana, who brings to her project both intimate knowledge and an unmatched authority. Her guide establishes the stature of Latina writers in an ever-expaning canon of American literature and will prove invaluable to any student of the broader culture." - Susan Goodman, University of Delaware

"Shifting the way in which we view 'American writers' is a must. With Alvina E. Quintana's new volume, Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature, we can begin to reshape our thinking. The diverse essays of this volume, historically situated with bibliographic information, expand our notion of 'Latina'; they provide entry to unfamiliar texts and foreground unheard voices. What a gentle urging to read new texts! Reading U.S. Latina Writers shatters silences; these are truths and revelations about another world of women we need to know and pass on to our students. As an educator, for years I have been wanting a source and resource such as this." - Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Duke University, author of Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape

About the authors

ALVINA QUINTANA is the Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, has written numerous essays in cultural/multicultural studies and is the author of Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices.

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