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Latina : women's voices from the borderlands

Title
Latina : women's voices from the borderlands / edited by Lillian Castillo-Speed.
Publication
  • New York : Published by Simon & Schuster, [1995]
  • ©1995

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Additional Authors
Castillo-Speed, Lillian
Description
284 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
Thirty stories by Hispanic women writers. They range from Mary Ponce's Just Desserts, about a woman whose date turns sour, to Lucha Corpi's Epiphany: The Third Gift, on a girl who lacks femininity and the effect this has on her family.
Series Statement
Touchstone book
Subject
  • Johannes Stobaeus ca. 5. Jh
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • American literature > Hispanic American authors
  • Hispanic American women > Literary collections
  • American literature > Women authors
  • Hispanic American women
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • Epik
  • Frauenliteratur
  • Hispanos
  • Frau Motiv
  • Spaanse Amerikanen
  • Vrouwelijke auteurs
  • Amerikaans
  • Mexiko
  • Chicanos
Genre/Form
  • Fictional Work
  • Essay
  • short stories.
  • essays.
  • Essays.
  • Fiction.
  • Literary collections.
  • Short stories.
  • Nouvelles.
  • Romans.
  • Essais.
  • Anthology.
  • Sociological.
Note
  • "A Touchstone book."
Contents
Part 1. The past we bring with us. My mother's Mexico / Ana Castillo -- Facing the mariachis / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- from A place where the sea remembers / Sandra Benítez -- Lourdes Puente / Cristina García -- Puertoricanness / Aurora Levins Morales -- Remembering Lobo / Pat Mora -- Tierra a tierra / Patricia Preciado Martin -- Rosario Magdaleno / Patricia Blanco -- That was living / Kathleen Ann González -- How Pancho was nearly late to his own funeral / Arlene Mestas -- Part 2. Our land, our lives. Twist and shout / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Miss Clairol / Helena María Viramontes -- Snow / Julia Alvarez -- from A name for Cebolla / Reid Gómez -- Grand slam / Denise Chávez -- Two letters home / Lety Martínez González and Patricia Zárate -- Only daughter / Sandra Cisneros -- Polaroids / Achy Obejas -- Marta del Angel / Linda Macías Feyder -- Fresh fruit / Marisella Veiga -- Just dessert / Mary Helen Ponce -- Personality fabulosa / Monica Palacios -- Part 3. Nuestra politica. Art in America con acento / Cherríe Moraga -- from Singing to Cuba / Margarita Engle -- Enedina's story / Inés Hernández-Avila -- Epiphany : the third gift / Lucha Corpi -- from Borderlands/La Frontera : the new Mestiza / Gloria Anzaldúa -- from When I was Puerto Rican / Esmerelda Santiago -- from In search of Bernabe / Graciela Limón -- from MotherTongue / Demetria Martínez -- Place of the dead / Alma Luz Villanueva.
ISBN
  • 0684802406
  • 9780684802404
  • 068480381X
  • 9780684803814
LCCN
95010397
OCLC
  • ocm32202096
  • 32202096
  • SCSB-8409505
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library