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]
  • ©2001
Description
xvi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Series
    Latin America otherwise [More in this series]
    Summary note
    An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists, some of whom are well known and some anonymous, provides insight into their personal life experiences and breaks barriers and assumptions.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-372).
    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
    • 0822327554 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
    • 9780822327554 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
    • 0822327651 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
    • 9780822327653 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    2001023934
    OCLC
    46866215
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