La Plonqui : the literary life and work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / edited by Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosales, Jesús, 1955- editor.

Fonseca-Chávez, Vanessa, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American women authors--Biography.

Hispanic American women authors.

Cota-Cárdenas, Margarita--Criticism and interpretation.

Cota-Cárdenas, Margarita.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [2023]

Language Note:

English and Spanish.

Summary:

"La Plonqui is an edited volume centered on the life and literary works of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas. The title references Cota-Cárdenas's childhood nickname, "La Plonky," which comes from a made-up family ditty. A novelist and poet, Cota-Cárdenas earned her PhD at the University of Arizona in 1980, and is professor emerita of Spanish at Arizona State University. She published the bilingual novella, Sanctuaries of the Heart / Santuarios del Corazón, with UA Press in 2005. The critical essays in La Plonqui cover all five major works written by Cota-Cárdenas (two novels and three books of poetry). The manuscript is divided into an Introduction and three major parts. The first part presents the life of Cota-Cárdenas in two testimonial essays written by herself and a longtime colleague. The section also includes an interview with Cota-Cárdenas prepared by the volume editors. The second part contains nine essays that critically analyze Cota-Cárdenas' literary output. The essays are written by well-established literary critics who position her work within a Chicano Movement literary context as well as by contemporary literary critics who offer new readings of Cota-Cárdenas fiction and poetry. The third part presents poetry and fiction from Cota-Cárdenas, including an excerpt from a work in progress. As a whole, the collection aims to affirm Margarita Cota-Cárdenas' significant role in shaping the field of Chicana literature and emphasizes the importance of honoring a celebrated writer, who wrote a majority of her works in Spanish-one of the few Chicana writers to do so"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez

Part I. "La Plonqui": Writer and Academic

1. Reflections on My Legacy as a Writer and Academic / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

2. The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face: Margarita and Me / Kirsten F. Nigro

3. Interview with Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez

Part II. Essays

4. Breve reflexión sobre la obra de Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

5. The Bittersweet Nostalgia of Childhood in the Poetry of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Tey Diana Rebolledo

6. Taboo or Not Taboo: Violence, Abuse, and the Search for Memory and Healing in Margarita Cota-Cárdenas's Santuarios del corazón / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez

7. Las Travesuras de la Chicana Macana: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas's Playful Language as a Critique of Machismo in Noches despertando inConciencias / Laura Elena Belmonte

8. El mestizaje lingüístico y sus manifestaciones socioculturales en Puppet de Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Javier Villarreal

9. Puppet and Sanctuaries of the Heart: Fictional Testimonios / Carolyn González

10. Sowing Seeds of Hope and Liberation: Critical Flower Songs of Renacimiento in Marchitas de mayo / José R. Flores

11. Chicanidad, Querencia, and a Voice of Justice: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, ¡Presente! / Margarita E. Pignataro

12. Making Peace with Ghosts in Sanctuaries of the Heart / Charles St-Georges

Part III. Creative Works

13. Épica fronteriza mechicana: Por esta piel que llevo / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

14. La gente de los girasoles / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

15. Margarita's Five (Un)answered Questions / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8165-5018-2

OCLC:

1389611575