Reading U.S. Latina Writers

ALVINA QUINTANA is the Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, has written numerous essays in cultural/multicultural studies and is the author of Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices.

"No one could have done this book better than Alvina Quintana, who brings to her project both intimate knowledge and an unmatched authority. Her guide establishes the stature of Latina writers in an ever-expaning canon of American literature and will prove invaluable to any student of the broader culture." - Susan Goodman, University of Delaware "Shifting the way in which we view 'American writers' is a must. With Alvina E. Quintana's new volume, Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature, we can begin to reshape our thinking. The diverse essays of this volume, historically situated with bibliographic information, expand our notion of 'Latina'; they provide entry to unfamiliar texts and foreground unheard voices. What a gentle urging to read new texts! Reading U.S. Latina Writers shatters silences; these are truths and revelations about another world of women we need to know and pass on to our students. As an educator, for years I have been wanting a source and resource such as this." - Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Duke University, author of Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape

• Introduction; A.E.Quintana Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing; F.Aparicio Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories; B.Brinson-Curiel Montserrat Fontes' First Confession and/or Dreams of the Centaur; N.Cantú Michelle Serror' Chicana Falsa; L.Crisler Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera; T.Delgadillo Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War Years; D.Espinoza Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, R.L.Fregoso Julia Alvarez's Yo; K.Gaffney Andrea Herrera's The Pearl of the Antilles; L.Gil Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban; A.Herrera Diana Garcia's When Living Was a Labor Camp; J.F.Herrera Marisala Norte's Black Butterfly; M.Habell-Pallan Latina dramatists: Irene Fornes; Cherrie Moraga; Migdalia Cruz; T.A.Lopez Rosario Castellanos' The Eternal Feminine; E.Marchant Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Mystery of Survival; R.Morilla-Sanchez Esmeralda Santiago's Geographies of Home; A.Quintana Nicholasa Mohr's A Matter of Pride & Other Stories; L.Sanchez Ifeoma Nawanko; L.Chambers