Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios

Latina Feminist Group

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Telling to Live

Latina Feminist Testimonios

Latina Feminist Group
Edited by: Aurora Levins Morales , Patricia Zavella , Norma Alarcon , Ruth Behar , Luz del Alba Acevedo , Celia Alvarez , Rina Benmayor , Clara Lomas , Daisy Cocco de Filippis , Gloria Holguin Cuadraz , Liza Fiol-Matta , Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz , Mirtha F. Quintanales , Eliana Rivero and Caridad Souza

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2001

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Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

About this book

An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists - some of whom are well known - which give insight into their personal life experiences and break barriers and assumptions.

Reviews

“Telling to Live is a groundbreaking text—important in its outreach, inclusiveness, and power—that expands, qualifies, complicates, and illuminates the ground of our discourse the way the best texts do—through transformative narratives, stories, and poems that resist the neat paradigms and –isms of our time. It is also a text that will fill an alarming gap in the academy, where silence or simplification of Latina perspectives still prevails.”—Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

“Twenty years after the publication of This Bridge Called My Back, this stunning collection of writings by Latina feminists raises the stakes of collaboration across race, class, nation, and sexuality. Telling to Live challenges prevailing research practices and forges a model of deep collaboration for future generations of scholars.”—Angela Y. Davis, author of Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

-- Jocelyn Climent Bust

-- Library Journal

-- Amanda Davis Aztlán

-- Marie Sarita Gaytán Latino Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
About the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Papelitos Guardados: Theorizing Latinidades Through Testimonio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. GENEALOGIES OF EMPOWERMENT
Certified Organic Intellectual Aurora Morales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
My Father’s Hands Yvette Ortiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
Vignettes of a Working-Class Puerto Rican Girl in Brooklyn, New York Celia Alvarez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
Silence Begins at Home Patricia Zavella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
You Speak Spanish Because You Are Jewish? Rina Benmayor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Getting There Cuando No Hay Camino Norma Cantú Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	60
Reflection and Rebirth: The Evolving Life of a Latina Academic Iris López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
Mi Primera Amiguita: Carmelita Gloria Cuádraz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
The House That Mamá Biela Built Daisy Filippis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
Lightning Mirtha Quintanales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	96
My Name Is This Story Aurora Morales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
Resisting the Alchemy of Erasure: Journey to Labor Ideas Clara Lomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	104
Esta Risa No Es de Loca Caridad Souza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
A Escondidas: A Chicana Feminist Teacher Who Writes/A Chicana Feminist Writer Who Teaches Norma Cantú Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Canto de Mi Madre/Canto de Mi Padre Inés Avila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
Daughter of Bootstrap Luz Acevedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Beyond Survival: A Politics/Poetics of Puerto Rican Consciousness Liza Matta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
I Can Fly: Of Dreams and Other Nonfictions Eliana Rivero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	156
II. ALCHEMIES OF ERASURE
The Christmas Present Caridad Souza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Snapshots from My Daze in School Celia Alvarez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Point of Departure Mirtha Quintanales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Another Way to Grow Up Puerto Rican Liza Matta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
El Beso Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	196
The Prize of a New Cadillac Yvette Ortiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
La Tra(d)ición Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	204
Between Perfection and Invisibility Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Diary of La Llorona with a Ph.D. Gloria Cuádraz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	212
Welcome to the Ivory Tower Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	218
I Still Don’t Know Why Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	224
Lessons Learned from an Assistant Professor Gloria Cuádraz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Don’t You Like Being in the University? Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Temporary Latina Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
Dispelling the Sombras, Grito mi nombre con rayos de luz Inés Avila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	238
Biting Through Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Sand from Varadero Beach Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Speaking Among Friends: Whose Empowerment, Whose Resistance? Luz Acevedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	250
III. THE BODY RE/MEMBERS
Reading the Body Norma Cantú Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	264
Missing Body Caridad Souza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	266
Malabareando/Juggling Liza Matta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Migraine/Jaqueca Norma Cantú Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
The Wart Daisy Filippis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Why My Ears Aren’t Pierced Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Night Terrors Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
La Princesa Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	286
Forced by Circumstance Norma Alarcón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Let Me Sleep Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Depression Mirtha Quintanales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Desde el Diván: Testimonios from the Couch Yvette Ortiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	294
Telling To Live: Devoro la Mentira, Resucitando Mi Ser Inés Avila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	298
IV. PASSION, DESIRES, AND CELEBRATIONS
Shameless Desire Aurora Morales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
La Cosa Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Boleros Eliana Rivero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
A Working-class Bruja’s Fears and Desires Norma Cantú Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	314
Aún Yvette Ortiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	318
The Names I Used to Call You/The Names I Do Call You Eliana Rivero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
Plátanos and Palms Rina Benmayor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
Three Penny Opera or Eve’s Symphony in B Minor Daisy Filippis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Descubrimiento(s) Celia Alvarez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
Entre Nosotras Latina Anónima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
Pisco and Cranberry Eliana Rivero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	334
De lo que es Amor, de lo que es Vida Inés Avila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	336
Eating Mango Liza Matta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	344
Everyday Grace Mirtha Quintanales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
Tenemos que Seguir Luchando Patricia Zavella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	348
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373

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September 18, 2001

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9780822383284

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398

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19 b&w photos

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383284

eBook ISBN: 9780822383284

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