Word images : new perspectives on Canícula and other works by Norma Elia Cantú / edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs ; foreword by María Hererra-Sobek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella, editor.

Herrera-Sobek, María, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cantú, Norma E., 1947- Canícula.

Cantú, Norma E.

Cantú, Norma E., 1947---Criticism and interpretation.

Cantú, Norma E., 1947-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores and celebrates works by Norma Elia Cantú, focusing on her critically-acclaimed book, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en La Frontera, a fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Critical essays

Hybridity and the Space of the Border in the Writing of Norma Elia Cantú / Ellen Mccracken Mccracken, Ellen 27

Community and Exile in Norma E. Cantú's Canícula / Jesús Rosales Rosales, Jesús 44

Norma E. Cantú: From Chicana/Fronteriza Writer and Critic to Public Intellectual / María Socorro Tabuenca Tabuenca, María Socorro 60

Snapshots of Law and Life in the Midcentury Texas Borderlands / Steven W. Bender Bender, Steven W. 79

Images, Identities, and Realities in Romance of a Little Village Girl (1955) by Cleofas Jaramillo and Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995) by Norma E. Cantú / Vanessa Fonseca Fonseca, Vanessa 92

A Chicana Daughter's Blues: Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera / María Esther Quintana Millamoto Millamoto, María Esther Quintana Millamoto, María Esther Quintana, Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez Ramírez, Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz, María Esther Quintana Millamoto, Adrian Ortega Ortega, Adrian 112

Word Images: An Interview with Norma Elia Cantú / Gabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs Muhs, Gabriella Gutiérrez Y 128

Part II Canícula Teaching Methodologies

Cantú's Decolonial Imagination Through the Looking Glass / Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez Ramírez, Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz 137

The Hidden Curriculum of Canícula: Critical Educational Lessons in Becoming a Mujer / Aurora Chang Chang, Aurora 142

The Alternative Lives of Azucena in Norma Elia Cantú's Canícula / Carlos Sibaja García García, Carlos Sibaja 158

A Discourse of Norma E. Cantú's Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and the World of Nepantla y Nepantlera / Rose Rodríguez-Rabin Rodríguez-Rabin, Rose 168

Canícula: Snapshots of Interrelationality, Consciousness, and Multiple Selves / Juan Velasco Velasco, Juan 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816534098

0816534098

OCLC:

959667331