Entre Guadalupe Y Malinche

InÉs HernÁndez-Ávila is a professor of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is one of the founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Norma Elia CantÚ is a professor of Latina/ Latino Studies and English at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She is the founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria AnzaldÚa and cofounder of CantoMundo, a place for Latin@ poets and poetry.

...the editors have brought together a truly impressive array of Tejana female artists, giving equal time to established names and rising stars. (Santa Fe New Mexican) A volume meriting serious scholarly consideration…As homogeneity increases through processes such as globalization, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche is a reminder of the relevance of regional particularism and how writers and artists respond to notions of place and land through constructions of imagination, memory, and community. (Western American Literature) Entre Guadalupe y Malinche is a vibrant collection…The texts collectively imagine, create, and rewrite Tejana stories into the Texas-Mexican landscape but contest any single notion of a unified experience, be it cultural, gender, or geographical…Entre Guadalupe y Malinche takes the reader on personal journeys of discovery, family, love, and healing all while rooted in the larger paradigm of the decolonial imaginary. (Journal of American Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth, by InÉs HernÁndez-ÁvilaI. Enterrando ombligos/Burying the Umbilical Cord: Tejanas in a Texas Land InÉs HernÁndez-Ávila IntroductionGloria AnzaldÚa Border arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la fronteraAlicia Gaspar de Alba To Your Shadow Beast: In MemoriamMargo Tamez The Equation of a CircleSusan M. Guerra HolidayJuanita A. Luna Lawhn Man without a PenOralia Garza de CortÉs Hija del mesquiteInÉs HernÁndez-Ávila That’s TejanaMarÍa LimÓn SantiagoRaquel Valle-SentÍes Growing Up in LaredoEvangelina Vigil harborNorma Elia CantÚ South Texas in July, 2014Deborah Paredez Alzheimer’s AubadeEnedina CÁsarez VÁsquez ¿Y quÉ nos pasÓ, AmÁ?Gloria Amescua Fall into the FigSusana RenterÍa Almanza Reflections of la Madre TierraMarÍa Silva ChicanaCeleste GuzmÁn Mendoza RepairTeresa Palomo Acosta My mother’s thimbleLaura M. LÓpez Growing Up a Texas-Mexican WomanAnel Flores SinvergÜenza on the Banks of the WaterEmmy PÉrez El Paso~El ValleRaquel Valle-SentÍes River of Lost DreamsPatrisia Gonzales The Pyramid I Call HomeRosemary Catacalos Red Dirt, Atascosa County, TexasPaulita Huerta Garza Amorosamente les saludoPat Mora A River of WomenII. Dolores profundos y la gracia de la vida/Deep Hurts and the Grace of Life InÉs HernÁndez-Ávila IntroductionEmma PÉrez Between Manifest Destiny and Women’s Rights: Decolonizing Chicana HistoryYolanda ChÁvez Leyva “If a woman stands at the door you can’t go in”: Jovita’s Story, April 1914Beva Sanchez-Padilla The Ballad of Emma TenayucaNorma Elia CantÚ Para Manuela Solis SagerMary Guerrero Milligan La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas HistoryTeresa Palomo Acosta Casas grandesAurora Orozco No me quites mi espaÑol (and translation)Idioma (and translation)Laura Parra Codina My Mother Used to Read to MeMarÍa Herrera-Sobek Summertime BluesJosephine CÁsarez Brown Trenzas Are for MensasD. Letticia Galindo Memories of West TexasDomino Renee PÉrez Anticipating a New LifeMarÍa Herrera-Sobek The Immigrant’s LamentGloria Amescua Not the Last PretenderLaura Parra Codina AquÍ en San Anto/Here in San Anto (author’s translation)Carmen Tafolla Something SeveredBeatriz de la Garza Amber Waves of GrainRosie Castro San Antonio sin MarÍasTammy Melody GÓmez It Is PossibleMary Margaret Navar El conquistadorAngela Valenzuela The Power of DifferenceEdith Villalobos Silvas I Wanted Mexican but I Got H.E.B. InsteadMary Sue Galindo La Elliott (1935–1970)Rosie Castro Brown Mother Full of StarsMia K. Stageberg Daughters of Burning SunIII. Arte y semblanza: Tejana Artivists Norma Elia CantÚ IntroductionSanta BarrazaNora Chapa MendozaCeleste De LunaCarmen Lomas GarzaVerÓnica OrtegÓnMarÍa Teresa GarcÍa PedrocheKathy VargasTerry YbaÑezIV. All Our Relations: Our Connections to Land, Family, Friends Norma Elia CantÚ IntroductionSonia SaldÍvar-Hull (Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera MemoriasOlivia Castellano TÍaire’ne lara silva en trozos/in piecesInÉs HernÁndez-Ávila Skyway DreamsSylvia Herrera Ábreme la puertaEmmy PÉrez We, the ObsessedMarÍa Herrera-Sobek Amorcito corazÓnLiliana Valenzuela A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes on the Geography of ShameAÍda Hurtado She/Woman/ManB. J. Manriquez Segura An UnderstandingEdith Villalobos Silvas No More TrenzasRosie Castro Role ModelEnedina CÁsarez VÁsquez Bad Hair DayEvangelina Vigil nocturne: cuando el destinoDorotea Reyna MoustacheDeborah Paredez At the VA Telemetry WardD. Letticia Galindo Longing for Tejas BluesJuanita Luna Lawhn My Mother’s CuartitoCeleste GuzmÁn Mendoza Dinner with DadAÍda Hurtado Mothering IRose TreviÑo SueÑos argentinosArgentine Dreams (author’s translation)Tammy Melody GÓmez Woman and PainMarÍa Eugenia Guerra The GardenTeresa Palomo Acosta Forgiving Stephen F. Austin and the old three hundredPaulita Huerta Garza Viva la libertad: Mensaje a las mujeresLong Live Liberty: A Message to Women (translation by Norma E. CantÚ)Pat Mora Let Us Hold HandsNorma Elia CantÚ Tierra incÓgnitaRosa-Linda Fregoso Ghosts of a Mexican Past (excerpt)Alicia Gaspar de Alba Asking for Pears: A Limpia Not Just a Love PoemV. (Auto)compromisos y comunidad: Gifts of Powerful, Conscious Loving InÉs HernÁndez-Ávila IntroductionMargo Tamez La Dormilona Dreamt of Home from the Shore of ErieLiliana Valenzuela Hoy detengo el curso de los rÍosToday I Stop the River in Its Tracks (Translation by Fred Fornoff)Mary Sue Galindo Ya lo verÁsRosie Castro Chicanas Never FearedMarÍa Silva Con todo respeto para la raza mÁs apreciada, los chicanos (and translation)Tammy Melody GÓmez In Finite F LightAÍda Hurtado Body ID. Letticia Galindo Tejana Tongues/Lenguas tejanasNorma Elia CantÚ Canto a la tierraDorotea Reyna Reina de copasMary Sue Galindo In Memory of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita PÉrez MejÍa 08/25/03–03/11/93Pat Mora Ofrenda for LoboBÁrbara Renaud GonzÁlez Feliz Navidad, DaddyEvangelina Vigil one dream of so manyLaura Parra Codina SÓplame la vidaMary Margaret Navar Plegaria milenariaMillennial Prayer (translation)ire’ne lara silva one-sided conversations with my motherSylvia Ledesma Luchando por libertadRosemary Catacalos Picture Postcard from a PainterB. J. Manriquez Segura An OmenRaquel Valle-SentÍes Cuando tÚ me besasWhen You Kiss Me (poet’s translation)Susan Guerra My Woman and Her BirdPaulita Huerta Garza Trozos de amor a la vidaPieces of Love to LifeTeresa Palomo Acosta Because faith has called me outEvangelina Vigil el silencioCarmen Tafolla Healing a Culture, AD 2000Epilogue: ¡Adelante y con ganas!, by Norma Elia CantÚNotesWorks CitedFurther ReadingContributors