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xv, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 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 : |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Hispanic Americans in literature.
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| Added Author |
Horno Delgado, Asunción, 1956-
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| ISBN |
0870236350 alkaline paper $40.00 |
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0870236369 paperback alkaline paper $12.95 |
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