Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. On Unmaking and Remaking 1
7. Resisting Imagination
8. Writing the Xicanista 21
9. Everday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez’s Fiction 47
10. Authorizing Desire 59
11. Body Agonistes
12. MeShell Ndegéocello 81
13. Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now 103
14. The Coloniality of Embodiment 141
15. Changing the Subject
16. Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell 161
17. The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women’s Art 181
18. Dalit Women’s Literature 197
19. Home is where the Art is: Shaping Space and Place
20. The Role of “Place” in New Zealand Māori Songs of Lament 213
21. Theater Near Us 231
22. Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the Melting Pot 247
23. Works Cited 265
24. About the Contributors 283
25. Index 287