LibGuides: Latinx Studies: Latina Writers

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Loida Maritza Pérez

- "Loida Maritza Pérez." VG: Voices from the Gap.University of Minnestota.05 May 2005. Web. 09 Jan. 2014. voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/perezLoida.php

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Helena Maria Viramontes

- "Introduction to Helena Maria Viramontes." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 285. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Artemis Literary Sources. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CXLXLUK422461833&v=2.1&u=cuny_laguardia&it=r&p=GLS&sw=w

- Interview: Viramontes, Helena María, Bridget Kevane, and Juanita Heredia. "Praying for Knowledge: An Interview with Helena María Viramontes." Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers. Ed. Bridget Kevane and Juanita Heredia. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 142-154. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 285. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. Document URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do id=GALE%7CH1100098278&v=2.1&u=cuny_laguardia&it=r&p=GLS&sw=w&asid=39686a4d2d84dfa2467caeec62f23716

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Literary Criticism

Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration by Vanessa Perez Rosario (Editor)
Call Number: E-book available online
ISBN: 9780230620650
Publication Date: 2010-06-15
Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement is a collection of thirteen chapters that explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz.
Latina Self-Portraits by Bridget A. Kevane (Editor); Juanita Heredia (Editor)
Call Number: LaGuardia - Stacks - PS 153 .H56 K48 2000
ISBN: 0826319718
Publication Date: 2000-04-01
"In these ten interviews, Kevane and Heredia give writers the opportunity to talk about how they began to write, the craft of writing, the conjunction of life, art and politics, literary influences, and their goals as artists. Readers will meet Julia Alvarez, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Helena María Viramontes"--Amazon
Latina Writers by Ilan Stavans (Editor)
Call Number: E-book available online
ISBN: 9780313348068
Publication Date: 2008-06-30
"Latina Writers is a collection of 11 essays and interviews that examine the craft and themes in the works of several Latina authors of diverse heritages who trace their roots to the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Gloria Anzaldua, the Chicana author and critic, is the subject of several essays, and the book includes interviews with Judith Ortiz Cofer and Esmeralda Santiago. The essays address such themes as feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, gender, the border, linguistics, images of food, and perspectives on being queer and Latina."—MultiCultural Review
Reading U. S. Latina Writers by Alvina E. Quintana
Call Number: E-book available online
ISBN: 0312294131
Publication Date: 2003-03-19
This essential teaching guide focuses on US Latina writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design, and classroom presentation. The introduction outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature; the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the traditions and influences that shape the works; and key critical issues of which teachers should be aware. The collection seeks to provide readers with a variety of Latina texts that will guarantee its long-term usefulness to teachers and students of pan-American literature.
Sacred Iconographies in Chicana Cultural Productions by Clara Román-Odio
Call Number: EBOOK - Click on title to read online.
ISBN: 9780230340008
Publication Date: 2013-02-13
This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975 to 2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, gender, and sexual oppression in the U.S.-Mexico borderland and beyond, and as a means to negotiate new social relations through spiritual mestizaje.