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Crimes of the tongue : essays and stories
- Title
- Crimes of the tongue : essays and stories / Alicia Gaspar de Alba.
- Author
- Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958-
- Publication
- Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- ix, 237 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A native of El Paso/Ciudad Juárez region, acclaimed author and scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba writes that she grew up with a 'forked tongue and a severe case of cultural schizophrenia, the split in the psyche that happens to someone who grows up in the borderlands between nations, languages and cultures". Border dwellers struggle with place and identity in the short fiction for writing seeks a job as a reporter at the El Paso Herald after World War I but gets hired as a janitor and 'research specialist' instead. A Mexican woman takes her young daughter north to protect her from sexual abuse, only to leave the girl with relatives while she crosses the river in search of a job and a new life. And a college student gets a Tarot reading to help her discern the historical symbolism of her bicultural identity. The award-winning writer explores other 'crimes of the tongue' in the essays: pochismo, or the mixing of English and Spanish, as both a family taboo and a politics of identity; the haunting memory of La Llorona, protector of undocumented immigrants and abandoned children, and her blood-curdling cry of loss and revenge; the intersection of the personal and the political in the transgressive work of Chicana/Latina artists; the sexual and linguistic rebellions of La Malinche and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; and the reverse coyotaje, or border crossing, of Chicana lesbian feminist theory translated into Spanish and visual art as a way of sneaking this counterhegemonic pocha poetics into Mexico. These essays and stories are always intellectually rigorous and often achingly personal" --Back cover.
- Alternative Title
- Essays and stories
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-1522
- ISBN
- 1558859578
- 9781558859579
- OCLC
- 1331705428
- Author
- Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- author.
- Title
- Crimes of the tongue : essays and stories / Alicia Gaspar de Alba.
- Publisher
- Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-1522