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Rebozos de palabras : an Helena María Viramontes critical reader /

Helena María Viramontes is a professor, scholar-activist, and renowned author of works of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been anthologized and is read widely in the United States and abroad. For many of her readings and speaking engagements she arrives wearing a rebozo, a shawl worn by Mexica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : "Look at these lives" / Sonia Saldívar-Hull
  • I. Latin American perspectives
  • "Had they been heading for the barn all along?" Viramonte's Chicana feminist revision of Steinbeck's migrant family / Barbara Brinson Curiel
  • Constructing community through fiction in Helena María Viramontes's Their dogs came with them and Susana Sánchez Bravo's Espacios condenados / Raelene Wyse
  • II. The body
  • Phantoms and patch quilt people : narrative art and migrant collectivity in Helena María Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
  • The women in East Los Angeles: gender and the city in Their dogs came with them / Juanita Heredia
  • Tapestries of space-time : urban institutional spaces in Helena María Viramontes's short fiction / Margarita T. Barceló
  • III. Ethics and aesthetics
  • Lovingly : ethics in Viramontes's stories / Juan D. Mah y Busch
  • Metaphors to love by : toward a Chicana aesthetics in Their dogs came with them / Mary Pat Brady
  • Crowbars, peaches, and sweat : coming to voice through image in Under the feet of Jesus / R. Joyce Z.L. Garay
  • Our dogs came with us : Viramontes prays to X̤lotl with Digna Rabia / Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez
  • IV. Interviews
  • Elevated thinking, metaphor making, aspired imagining : an interview with Helena María Viramontes / interview with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
  • Faith in the imagination : an interview with Helena Ma̕ra Viramontes / interview with José Antonio Rodríguez.