Telling to live : Latina feminist testimonios / the Latina feminist group, Luz del Alba Acevedo [and others].

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 378 pages)

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Summary note
An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists - some of whom are well known - which give insight into their personal life experiences and break barriers and assumptions.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references ([357]-372).
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
English.
Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Papelitos guardados : theorizing Latinidades through testimonio
  • I. Genealogies of empowerment
  • Certified organic intellectual / Aurora Levins Morales
  • My father's hands / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
  • Vignettes of a working-class Puerto Rican girl in Brooklyn, New York / Celia Alvarez
  • Silence begins at home / Patricia Zavella
  • You speak Spanish because you are Jewish? / Rina Benmayor
  • Getting there Cuando no hay camino / Norma E. Cantú
  • Reflection and rebirth : the evolving life of a Latina academic / Iris Ofelia López
  • Mi primera amiguita : Carmelita / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
  • The house that Mamá Biela built / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
  • Lightning / Mirtha N. Quintanales
  • My name is this story / Aurora Levins Morales
  • Resisting the alchemy of erasure : journey to labor ideas / Clara Lomas
  • Esta risa no es de loca / Caridad Souza
  • A Escondidas : a Chicana feminist teacher who writes/a Chicana feminist writer who teaches / Norma E. Cantú
  • Canto de mi madre/canto de mi padre / Inés Hernández Avila
  • Daughter of bootstrap / Luz del Alba Acevedo
  • Beyond survival : a politics/poetics of Puerto Rican consciousness / Liza Fiol-Matta
  • I can fly : of dreams and other nonfictions / Eliana Rivero.
  • II. Alchemies of erasure
  • The Christmas present / Caridad Souza
  • Snapshots from my daze in school / Celia Alvarez
  • Point of departure / Mirtha N. Quintanales
  • Another way to grow up Puerto Rican / Liza Fiol-Mata
  • El beso / Ruth Behar
  • The prize of a new Cadillac / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
  • La tra(d)ición / Latina anónima
  • Between perfection and invisibility / Latina anónima
  • Diary of La Llorona with a Ph. D. / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
  • Welcome to the ivory tower / Latina anónima
  • I still don't know why / Latina anónima
  • Lessons learned from an assistant professor / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
  • Don't you like being in the university? / Latina anónima
  • Temporary Latina / Ruth Behar
  • Dispelling the Sombras, grito mi nombre con rayos de luz / Inés Hernándex Avila
  • Biting through / Latina anónima
  • Sand from Varadero Beach / Ruth Behar
  • Speaking among friends : who empowerment, whose resistance? / Luz del Alba Acevedo.
  • III. The body re/members
  • Reading the body / Norma E. Cantú
  • Missing body / Caridad Souza
  • Malabareando/juggling / Liza Fiol-Matta
  • Migraine/jaqueca / Norma E. Cantú
  • The wart / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
  • Why my ears aren't pierced / Ruth Behar
  • Night terrors / Latina anónima
  • La princesa / Latina anónima
  • Forced by circumstance / Norma Alarcón
  • Let me sleep / Latina anónima
  • Depression / Mirtha N. Quintanales
  • Desde el Diván : testimonios from the couch / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
  • Telling to live : devoro la mentira, resucitando mi ser / Inés Hernández Avila.
  • IV. Passion, desires, and celebrations
  • Shameless desire / Aurora Levins Morales
  • La cosa / Ruth Behar
  • Boleros / Eliana Rivero
  • A working-class Bruja's fears and desires / Norma E. Cantú
  • Aún / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
  • The names I used to call you/the names I do call you / Eliana Rivero
  • Plátanos and palms / Rina Benmayor
  • Three penny opera or Eve's symphony in B minor / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
  • Descubrimiento(s) / Celia Alvarez
  • Entre nosotras / Latina anónima
  • Pisco and cranberry / Eliana Rivero
  • De lo que es amor, de lo que es vida / Inés Hernández Avila
  • Eating mango / Liza Fiol-Matta
  • Everyday grace / Mirtha N. Quintanales
  • Tenemos que seguir luchando / Patricia Zavella.
ISBN
  • 9780822383284 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0822383284 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1283063131
  • 9781283063135
  • 9786613063137
  • 6613063134
OCLC
245538712
Doi
  • 10.1515/9780822383284
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