Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Jennifer Browdy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer, editor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Social justice--Latin America.

Social justice.

Social justice--Caribbean Area.

Ethnicity.

Latin America--Social conditions.

Latin America.

Social conditions.

Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Caribbean Area.

Ethnicity--Caribbean Area.

Ethnicity--Latin America.

Women--Latin America--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 220 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2017]

Summary:

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the voices of sixteen acclaimed writer-activists for a one-of-a-kind collection. Through poetry and essays, writers from the Anglophone, Hispanic, and Francophone Caribbean, including Puertorriqueñas and Cubanas, grapple with their hybrid political identities. Gloria Anzaldúa, the founder of Chicana queer theory; Rigoberta Menchú, the first Indigenous person to win a Nobel Peace Prize; and Michelle Cliff, a searing and poignant chronicler of colonialism and racism, among many others, highlight how women can collaborate across class, race, and nationality to lead a new wave of resistance against neoliberalism, patriarchy, state terrorism, and white supremacy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Re-Envisioning History

1 Revision / Aurora Levins Morales Morales, Aurora Levins 15

2 We Are Ugly, but We Are Here / Edwidge Danticat Danticat, Edwidge 21

3 The Silent Witness / Raquel Partnoy Partnoy, Raquel 27

4 And What Would It Be Like? / Michelle Cliff Cliff, Michelle 39

5 Everything I Kept: Reflections of an "Anthropoeta" / Ruth Behar Behar, Ruth 45

6 The Dream of Nunca Más: Healing the Wounds / Emma Sepúlveda Sepúlveda, Emma 59

Part 2 The Politics of Language and Identity

7 Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers / Gloria Anzaldúa Anzaldúa, Gloria 69

8 Las aeious / Ruth Irupé Sanabria Sanabria, Ruth Irupé 82

9 Art in America con Acento / Cherrie Moraga Moraga, Cherrie 92

10 The Myth of the Latin Woman / Judith Ortiz Cofer Cofer, Judith Ortiz 101

11 The Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992 / Rigoberta Menchú Menchú, Rigoberta 109

Part 3 Strategies of Resistance

12 A Small Place / Jamaica Kincaid Kincaid, Jamaica 133

13 One Precious Moment / Margaret Randall Randall, Margaret 144

14 On Being Shorter: How Our Testimonial Texts Defy the Academy / Alicia Partnoy Partnoy, Alicia 161

15 Death in the Desert: The Women of Ciudad Juarez / Marjorie Agosín Agosín, Marjorie 184

16 I Came to Help: Resistance Writ Small / Julia Alvarez Alvarez, Julia 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780807088197

0807088196

OCLC:

966363712