We are nature defending itself : an anthology of women on bodies, borders, & place / Cordelia E. Barrera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrera, Cordelia E., 1966- editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Wittliff Collections literary series http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/d714392e-7aa5-2df8-2472-f1f13280b072

Wittliff Collections literary series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--21st century.

American literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors--21st century.

Nature--Literary collections.

Nature.

Cultural landscapes--United States--Literary collections.

Cultural landscapes.

Environmental justice--United States--Literary collections.

Environmental justice.

Genre:

Fiction.

Literature.

Nature fiction.

Nature poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Anthology of women on bodies, borders, and place

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives." Not least of the many benefits to readers are its contributions from prominent Latina writers, presented here as advocates for the environment. Though this theme has long existed in Chicana literature, it has never been positioned as front and center as it is in this anthology. Volume editor Cordelia E. Barrera also includes notable Anglo, African American, and Indigenous contributors, crafting a true cultural blend of distinctive writing that will appeal to older generations while inspiring new ones. By incorporating these border voices, this collection effectively challenges long-dominant mythologies of the American West and offers a prominent place for literatures of social justice and the environment. The mix of poems, stories, and essays are divided into three sections: Bodies, Landscape, and Practices. Part I begins with the idea of experiencing and feeling a history of the body's contact with landscapes and places as repositories of knowledge. Part II extends beyond particulars of private or public life to consider issues of place as sites and locations of radical action. Part III features ruminations and traditions of remembering, highlighting reciprocal relationships to the natural world that extend outward to the ways "women's work" in and around the home shapes communal processes that reinforce continuity across time and space. We Are Nature Defending Itself adds important new work to the growing canon of nature and borderlands writing by women of color. In turn, these new voices deepen and broaden our understanding of humanity and its relationship to the natural environment"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / by Cordelia E. Barrera

Bodies

"A River of Women" / Pat Mora

"I Want to Be a Maguey in My Next Life" / Sandra Cisneros

"What If We Are Not Broken by Our Histories?" / Kimberly Blaeser

"Sugar Babies" / Kali Fajardo-Anstine

"To Make a Child an Ancestor, a Home, or, the Year of the Murder Hornets" / Naima Yael Tokunow

"The Seven Directions" / Diana López

"Antelope and I" / Shelley Armitage

"the seedling wife" / ire'ne lara silva

"The Round-Roof Hogan" / Luci Tapahonso

"Laguna y Río Carry Me" / Anel I. Flores

"Summer Music" / Diane Hueter Warner

"Two Women Talking on a Winter Morning" / Diane Hueter Warner

"Una Hojita de Buganvilla: A Parable" / Anel I. Flores

"a veil" / Petra Salazar

Part 1: "Bête Noire, a California Extinction in Five Walks" / Lisa Lee Herrick

Landscapes

"Our Abuelos, the Trees" / Carmen Tafolla

"El Desierto" / Pat Mora

"The Activist and the Ordinance" / Stephanie Elizondo Griest

"Soundscapes along the US-Mexico Borderlands" / Norma E. Cantú

"SOVERYEMPTY" / Margo Tamez

"Shadowing Butterflies in the Monte" / Cordelia E. Barrera

"la hija de la llorona" / Petra Salazar

"borderlands" / Petra Salazar

"Parable of the Weeds" / Christine Granados

"Monkey Wrenching My Way Home" / Diane Wilson

"Carried by Seeds" / Emmy Pérez

Part 2: "Bête Noire, a California Extinction in Five Walks" / Lisa Lee Herrick

"Stories without End: Communing with Indigenous Cultures along El Camino Real de los Tejas" / ire'ne lara silva

"My Father Once Showed Me an Arrowhead" / Sara L. Spurgeon

Practices

"The Windmill" / Laura Toje

"Feeding You" / Carmen Tafolla

"I Should Like to Fall in Love with a Burro Named Saturnino" / Sandra Cisneros

"I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them" / Kimberly Blaeser

"Walled in Her Dreaming. Subject. Position" / Margo Tamez

"The Shrinking River Age" / Michelle Otero

"Place Matters: Writing the Llano" / Shelley Armitage

"I Am in No Rush for the Ineluctable Departure from the Earthly Plane, but I Have Questions" / María Eugenia Guerra

"As I Heal, So Does the Land: A Story about Blackness, Conservation, and Healing in America" / Krystal Toney

"Golondrinas: Reflections of Resiliencia in the Río Grande Vallé" / Leeanna T. Torres

"Deed" / Naima Yael Tokunow

"Burritos Josefina" / Gris Muñoz

"Writing Year by Year" / Pat Mora

"We Must Remember" / Luci Tapahonso.

Other Format:

Online version We are nature defending itself

ISBN:

9781648433733

1648433731

OCLC:

1531357653