BOOK OF THE MONTH: ENTRE GUADALUPE Y MALINCHE: TEJANAS IN LITERATURE AND ART, EDITED BY INES HERNANDEZ-AVILA AND NORMA ELIA CANTU
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| University of Texas Press |
It’s Women’s History Month
and The Latina Book Club begins its celebration with a new hot-off-the-press anthology—ENTRE GUADALUPE
Y MALINCHE: TEJANAS IN LITERATURE AND ART—edited by two leading experts in Chicana and Mexican feminism, Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú.
This is a unique collection of
memoirs, poetry, essays and artwork from artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza,
Kathy Varga and Santa Barraza. Contributors include writers such as Celeste
De Luna, Maria Limon, Laura M. Lopez, Pat Mora, Ire’ne Lara Silva, Carmen
Tafolla and Terry Ybañnez. Most of the
pieces are in English, but a few are in Spanish with translations. The writers
and artists discuss everything from family to friends to dreams to identity to community
to women rights. Readers will find this a powerful, passionate and (sometimes) painful
collection. Happy Reading.
BOOK SUMMARY: Mexican and Mexican American women have
written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited
by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y
Malinche gathers, for
the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences
of women who identify as Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts.
The writings of more than
fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists manifest the nuanced complexity
of what it means to be Tejana and how this identity offers alternative
perspectives to contemporary notions of Chicana identity, community, and
culture. Considering Texas-Mexican women and their identity formations,
subjectivities, and location on the longest border between Mexico and any of
the southwestern states acknowledges the profound influence that land and
history have on a people and a community, and how Tejana creative traditions
have been shaped by historical, geographical, cultural, linguistic, social, and
political forces. The collection attests to the rooted presence of the original
indigenous peoples of the land now known as Tejas, as well as a strong
Chicana/Mexicana feminism that has its precursors in Tejana history itself.
ABOUT THE
AUTHORS:
Inés Hernández-Ávila is a professor of Native
American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is one of the
founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
Norma Elia Cantú is a professor of Latina/ Latino
Studies and English at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She is the
founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa and cofounder of
CantoMundo, a place for Latin@ poets and poetry.
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