Entre Guadalupe y malinche : tejanas in literature and art / edited by Inés Hernández-Avila; Norma Elia Cantú.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández-Avila, Inés, author.

Contributor:

Hernández-Avila, Inés, editor.

Cantú, Norma Elia, editor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Texas--History.

Mexican American women.

Women and literature--Texas--History.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.)

Place of Publication:

Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences of women who identify as Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts. The writings of more than fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists manifest the nuanced complexity of what it means to be Tejana and how this identity offers alternative perspectives to contemporary notions of Chicana identity, community, and culture. Considering Texas-Mexican women and their identity formations, subjectivities, and location on the longest border between Mexico and any of the southwestern states acknowledges the profound influence that land and history have on a people and a community, and how Tejana creative traditions have been shaped by historical, geographical, cultural, linguistic, social, and political forces. This representation of Tejana arts and letters brings together the work of rising stars along with well-known figures such as writers Gloria Anzaldúa, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Carmen Tafolla, and Pat Mora, and artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Kathy Vargas, Santa Barraza, and more. The collection attests to the rooted presence of the original indigenous peoples of the land now known as Tejas, as well as a strong Chicana/Mexicana feminism that has its precursors in Tejana history itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth

I. Enterrando ombligos/Burying the Umbilical Cord: Tejanas in a Texas Land

Introduction

Border arte. Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera

To Your Shadow Beast. In Memoriam

The Equation of a Circle

Holiday

Man without a Pen

Hija del mesquite

That’s Tejana

Santiago

Growing Up in Laredo

Harbor

South Texas in July, 2014

Alzheimer’s Aubade

¿Y qué nos pasó, Amá?

Fall into the Fig

Reflections of la Madre Tierra

Chicana

Repair

My mother’s thimble

Growing up a Texas-Mexican Woman

Sinvergüenza on the Banks of the Water

El Paso~El Valle

River of Lost Dreams

The Pyramid I Call Home

Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas

Amorosamente les saludo / Lovingly, I Greet You

A River of Women

II. Dolores profundos y la gracia de la vida/ Deep Hurts and the Grace of Life

Between Manifest Destiny and Women’s Rights. Decolonizing Chicana History

“If a woman stands at the door you can’t go in” Jovita’s Story, April 1914

The Ballad of Emma Tenayuca

Para Manuela Solis Sager

La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas History

Casas grandes

No me quites mi español / Don’t Take Away My Spanish

Idioma/Language

My Mother Used to Read to Me

Summertime Blues

Brown Trenzas Are for Mensas

Memories of West Texas

Anticipating a New Life

The Immigrant’s Lament

Not the Last Pretender

Aquí en San Anto/Here in San Anto

Something Severed

Amber Waves of Grain

San Antonio sin Marías

It Is Possible

El conquistador

The Power of Difference

I Wanted Mexican, But I Got H.E.B. Instead

La Elliott (1935–1970)

Brown Mother Full of Stars

Daughters of Burning Sun

III. Arte y semblanza: Tejana Artivists

Santa Barraza

Nora Chapa Mendoza

Celeste De Luna

Carmen Lomas Garza

Verónica Ortegón

María Teresa García Pedroche

Kathy Vargas

Terry Ybañez

Conclusion

IV. All Our Relations: Our Connections to Land, Family, Friends

(Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias

Tía

En trozos/in pieces

Skyway Dreams

Ábreme la puerta

We, the Obsessed

Amorcito corazón

A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes on the Geography of Shame

She/Woman/Man

An Understanding

No More Trenzas

Role Model

Bad Hair Day

Nocturne: cuando el destino

Moustache

At the VA Telemetry Ward

Longing for Tejas Blues

My Mother’s Cuartito

Dinner with Dad

Mothering I

Sueños argentinos/Argentine Dreams

Argentine Dreams

Woman and Pain

The Garden

Forgiving Stephen F. Austin and the old three hundred

Viva la libertad: Mensaje a las mujeres / Long Live Liberty: A Message to Women

Let Us Hold Hands

Tierra incógnita

Ghosts of a Mexican Past (excerpt)

Asking for Pears: A Limpia Not Just a Love Poem

V. (Auto)compromisos y comunidad: Gifts of Powerful, Conscious Loving

La Dormilona Dreamt of Home from the Shore of Erie

Hoy detengo el curso de los ríos

Today I Stop the River in Its Tracks

Ya lo verás

Chicanas Never Feared

Con todo respeto para la raza más apreciada, los chicanos/With All My Respect for My Dearest People, the Chicanos

In Finite F Light

Body I

Tejana Tongues/Lenguas tejanas

Canto a la tierra

Reina de copas

In Memory of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita Pérez Mejía 08/25/03–03/11/93

Ofrenda for Lobo: November 2, 1993

Feliz Navidad, Daddy

One dream of so many

Sóplame la vida

Plegaria milenaria / Millenial Prayer

One-sided conversations with my mother

Luchando por libertad / Struggling for Freedom

Picture Postcard from a Painter

An Omen

Cuando tú me besas/When You Kiss Me

My Woman and Her Bird

Trozos de amor a la vida/Pieces of Love to Life

Because faith has called me out

El silencio

Healing a Culture, AD 2000

Epilogue. ¡Adelante y con ganas!, by Norma Elia Cantú

Notes

Works Cited

Further Reading

Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4773-0837-7