Latina histories and cultures : feminist readings and recoveries of archival knowledge / edited and with an introduction by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feu López, M. Montserrat, editor, writer of introduction.

Padilla, Yolanda, editor.

Series:

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women authors, Latin American--United States--History and criticism.

Women authors, Latin American.

Feminist criticism.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxx, 345 pages : black and white illustrations, 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The lives and writings of Latinas throughout US history engage major themes predominantly explored by male scholars and writers without considering the ideas and contributions of women. These include citizenship and suffrage, imperialist expansion and colonialism, labor organizing and revolution as well as the struggle for equal rights. Fifteen scholars have now come together to set the record straight by providing new research on Latina histories and cultures from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980. Examining a wide range of source materials, including personal and institutional archives, literature and oral history, the authors use transnational approaches and Latina feminist theory to remind us that sex and gender are crucial problematics that are still too often forgotten"--Back cover.

Contents:

The practice of Latina feminist recovery / by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla

Citizenship, suffrage, and the (un)making of the Mexican-American woman citizen in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who would have thought of it? / Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera

Translating the tapada's veil in Who would have thought it? / Evelyn Soto

Aurora Mena and The pearl key : unlocking the meaning of a mambisa's story / Paul S. Losch

María Cristina Mena and the masturbating boy / William Orchard

A forum on Chicana memory work past, present, and future : nuestras autohistorias / María Cotera, Anna Nietogomez, Martha P. Cotera, Inés Hernández-Ávila, Samantha M. Rodriguez, and Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Puerto Rico's colonial press / Ayendy Bonifacio

Entre la plancha y la página : early twentieth-century Mexicana food work and the Spanish-language press in two Texas cities / Monica Perales

Adelina 'Nina' Otero-Warren : a nuevomexicana in suffrage, politics and letters in the early twentieth century / Anna M. Nogar

Luisa Capetillo, free love and the Falda-Pantalón / Christopher Castañeda

Loud, hidden voices of the revolution : Reynalda González Parra, organized labor, and Feminismo Transfronterizo / Sonia Hernández

Josefina de la Grana's letters to the editor : a window into her activism in Tampa, Florida / Ana Varela-Lago

AKA Frances : Francisca Flores and the radical roots of Chicana feminism in California / Pablo Landeros

Mujeres y mártires : Cristero diaspora literature / Anita Huizar-Hernández

Mujeres vascas en Estados Unidos, 1850-1950 : la formación de una comunidad / Koldo San Sebastián

"We were always Chicanos," or "We did it our way" : situated citizenship in the equality state / Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez

List of USLDH Grants-in-Aid (2020-2023).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1558859640

9781558859647

OCLC:

1348478971