Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean /

Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Social justice > Latin America.
Social justice > Caribbean Area.
Ethnicity > Caribbean Area.
Ethnicity > Latin America.
Women > Latin America > Social conditions.
Women > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Latin America > Social conditions.
Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Elizabeth Martinez
  • Introduction / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
  • Revision / Aurora Levins Morales
  • We are ugly, but we are here / Edwidge Danticat
  • The Silent witness / Raquel Partnoy
  • And what would it be like? / Michelle Cliff
  • Everything I kept: reflections on an "anthropoeta" / Ruth Behar
  • The Dream of Nunca Más: healing the wounds / Emma Sepúlveda
  • Language as an instrument of domination / Rosario Castellaños
  • Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers / Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Las Aeious / Ruth Irupé Sanabria
  • Art in América con acento / Cherríe Moraga
  • The Myth of the Latin woman / Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • The Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992 / Rigoberta Menchú
  • A Massacre in Mexico / Elena Poniatowska
  • A Small place / Jamaica Kincaid
  • One precious moment / Margaret Randall
  • On being shorter: how our testimonial texts defy the academy / Alicia Partnoy
  • Death in the desert: the women of Ciudad Juárez / Marjorie Agosín
  • I came to help: resistance writ small / Julia Alvarez.