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Daring to Write : Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Espaillat, Rhina.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write's insightful works offer readers a wide array of content that touches on a range of topics: migration, history, religion, race, class, gender, and sexuality. The result is a moving and imaginative critique of how these factors intersect and affect daily lives. The volume opens with a foreword by Julia Alvarez and includes short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, and personal essays and features work by established writers such as Angie Cruz and Nelly Rosario, alongside works by emerging writers. Narratives originally written in Spanish appear in English for the first time, translated by Achy Obejas. An important contribution to Latino/a studies, these writings will introduce readers to a new collection of rich literature.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE ME
- Writing toward Forgiveness
- Maribel and El Viejo
- The Big News
- The Day I Lost Melissa
- The Immaculate Finger
- Halfie
- The Game of Exhaustion
- 2. I'M NOT FROM HERE AND I'M NOT FROM THERE
- Identidades/Identities
- In Chinatown
- The Yielding Paths
- Excerpt from Feasting on Sancocho before Night Falls, a Meditation
- An Heiress from Arroyo Hondo
- On Being a (Latina) Journalist
- 3. THAT'S NOT ME ANYMORE
- The Intervention
- The Queen of Chá
- The Slandered
- Papi
- Greñas
- Pero, M'ija, Where Did You Get That From?
- 4. THE COUNTRIES BEYOND
- The Caribbean, or the Feminine Face of Multiculturalism
- Saint Martha's Daughter in Madrid
- The Route
- For a Mango
- Tía Milena/Milena Tía
- The Day's List
- Contributors
- Permissions
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780820349275
- 0820349275
- OCLC:
- 1024277524
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