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Entre Guadalupe y Malinche

Tejanas in Literature and Art

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

About this book

Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences of women who identify as Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts.

The writings of more than fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists manifest the nuanced complexity of what it means to be Tejana and how this identity offers alternative perspectives to contemporary notions of Chicana identity, community, and culture. Considering Texas-Mexican women and their identity formations, subjectivities, and location on the longest border between Mexico and any of the southwestern states acknowledges the profound influence that land and history have on a people and a community, and how Tejana creative traditions have been shaped by historical, geographical, cultural, linguistic, social, and political forces. This representation of Tejana arts and letters brings together the work of rising stars along with well-known figures such as writers Gloria Anzaldúa, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Carmen Tafolla, and Pat Mora, and artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Kathy Vargas, Santa Barraza, and more. The collection attests to the rooted presence of the original indigenous peoples of the land now known as Tejas, as well as a strong Chicana/Mexicana feminism that has its precursors in Tejana history itself.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

...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

A superbly rich anthology of Tejana writings and the only one of its kind.

— Yolanda Broyles-González, University Distinguished Professor and Head, American Ethnic Studies Department, Kansas State University

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth
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Inés Hernández-Ávila

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I. Enterrando ombligos/Burying the Umbilical Cord: Tejanas in a Texas Land
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Introduction
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Inés Hernández-Ávila

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Border arte. Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera
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Gloria Anzaldúa

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To Your Shadow Beast. In Memoriam
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Alicia Gaspar de Alba

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The Equation of a Circle
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Margo Tamez

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Holiday
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Susan M. Guerra

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Man without a Pen
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Juanita A. Luna Lawhn

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Hija del mesquite
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Oralia Garza de Cortés

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That’s Tejana
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Inés Hernández-Ávila

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Santiago
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María Limón

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Growing Up in Laredo
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Raquel Valle-Sentíes

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Harbor
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Evangelina Vigil

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South Texas in July, 2014
62
Norma Elia Cantú

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Alzheimer’s Aubade
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Deborah Paredez

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¿Y qué nos pasó, Amá?
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Enedina Cásarez Vásquez

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Fall into the Fig
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Gloria Amescua

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Reflections of la Madre Tierra
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Susana Rentería Almanza

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Chicana
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María Silva

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Repair
80
Celeste Guzmán Mendoza

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My mother’s thimble
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Teresa Palomo Acosta

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Growing up a Texas-Mexican Woman
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Laura M. López

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Sinvergüenza on the Banks of the Water
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Anel Flores

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El Paso~El Valle
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Emmy Pérez

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River of Lost Dreams
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Raquel Valle-Sentíes

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The Pyramid I Call Home
100
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Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas
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Amorosamente les saludo / Lovingly, I Greet You
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Paulita Huerta Garza

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A River of Women
108
Pat Mora

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II. Dolores profundos y la gracia de la vida/ Deep Hurts and the Grace of Life
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Introduction
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Inés Hernández-Ávila

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Between Manifest Destiny and Women’s Rights. Decolonizing Chicana History
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Emma Pérez

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“If a woman stands at the door you can’t go in” Jovita’s Story, April 1914
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Yolanda Chávez Leyva

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The Ballad of Emma Tenayuca
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Beva Sanchez-Padilla

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Para Manuela Solis Sager
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Norma Elia Cantú

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La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas History
137
Mary Guerrero Milligan

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Casas grandes
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Teresa Palomo Acosta

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No me quites mi español / Don’t Take Away My Spanish
143
Aurora Orozco

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Idioma/Language
145
Aurora Orozco

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My Mother Used to Read to Me
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Laura Parra Codina

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Summertime Blues
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María Herrera-Sobek

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Brown Trenzas Are for Mensas
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Josephine Cásarez

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Memories of West Texas
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D. Letticia Galindo

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Anticipating a New Life
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Domino Renee Pérez

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The Immigrant’s Lament
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María Herrera-Sobek

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Not the Last Pretender
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Gloria Amescua

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Aquí en San Anto/Here in San Anto
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Laura Parra Codina

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Something Severed
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Carmen Tafolla

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Amber Waves of Grain
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Beatriz de la Garza

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San Antonio sin Marías
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It Is Possible
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Tammy Melody Gómez

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El conquistador
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Mary Margaret Navar

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The Power of Difference
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Angela Valenzuela

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I Wanted Mexican, But I Got H.E.B. Instead
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Edith Villalobos Silvas

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La Elliott (1935–1970)
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Brown Mother Full of Stars
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Rosie Castro

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Daughters of Burning Sun
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Mia K. Stageberg

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III. Arte y semblanza: Tejana Artivists
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Introduction
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Santa Barraza
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Nora Chapa Mendoza
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Celeste De Luna
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Carmen Lomas Garza
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Verónica Ortegón
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María Teresa García Pedroche
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Kathy Vargas
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Terry Ybañez
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Conclusion
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IV. All Our Relations: Our Connections to Land, Family, Friends
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Introduction
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Norma Elia Cantú

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(Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias
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Sonia Saldívar-Hull

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Tía
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Olivia Castellano

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En trozos/in pieces
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Ire’Ne Lara Silva

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Skyway Dreams
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Inés Hernández-Ávila

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Ábreme la puerta
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Sylvia Herrera

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We, the Obsessed
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Amorcito corazón
293
María Herrera-Sobek

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A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes on the Geography of Shame
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Liliana Valenzuela

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She/Woman/Man
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Aída Hurtado

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An Understanding
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B. J. Manriquez Segura

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No More Trenzas
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Edith Villalobos Silvas

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Role Model
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Rosie Castro

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Bad Hair Day
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Enedina Cásarez Vásquez

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Nocturne: cuando el destino
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Moustache
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Dorotea Reyna

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At the VA Telemetry Ward
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Deborah Paredez

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Longing for Tejas Blues
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D. Letticia Galindo

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My Mother’s Cuartito
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Juanita Luna Lawhn

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Dinner with Dad
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Celeste Guzmán Mendoza

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Mothering I
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Aída Hurtado

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Sueños argentinos/Argentine Dreams
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Argentine Dreams
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Woman and Pain
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The Garden
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Forgiving Stephen F. Austin and the old three hundred
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Viva la libertad: Mensaje a las mujeres / Long Live Liberty: A Message to Women
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Paulita Huerta Garza

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Let Us Hold Hands
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Tierra incógnita
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Ghosts of a Mexican Past (excerpt)
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Asking for Pears: A Limpia Not Just a Love Poem
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Alicia Gaspar de Alba

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V. (Auto)compromisos y comunidad: Gifts of Powerful, Conscious Loving
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Introduction
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Inés Hernández-Ávila

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La Dormilona Dreamt of Home from the Shore of Erie
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Hoy detengo el curso de los ríos
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Today I Stop the River in Its Tracks
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Ya lo verás
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Chicanas Never Feared
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Con todo respeto para la raza más apreciada, los chicanos/With All My Respect for My Dearest People, the Chicanos
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In Finite F Light
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Body I
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Aída Hurtado

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Tejana Tongues/Lenguas tejanas
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Canto a la tierra
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Reina de copas
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In Memory of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita Pérez Mejía 08/25/03–03/11/93
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Ofrenda for Lobo: November 2, 1993
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Feliz Navidad, Daddy
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One dream of so many
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Sóplame la vida
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Plegaria milenaria / Millenial Prayer
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One-sided conversations with my mother
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Luchando por libertad / Struggling for Freedom
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Picture Postcard from a Painter
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An Omen
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Cuando tú me besas/When You Kiss Me
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My Woman and Her Bird
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Trozos de amor a la vida/Pieces of Love to Life
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Paulita Huerta Garza

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Because faith has called me out
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El silencio
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Healing a Culture, AD 2000
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Epilogue. ¡Adelante y con ganas!, by Norma Elia Cantú
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Norma Elia Cantú

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Notes
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Works Cited
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Further Reading
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Contributors
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November 3, 2021

eBook ISBN:

9781477308370

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https://doi.org/10.7560/307960

eBook ISBN: 9781477308370

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

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Entre Guadalupe y Malinche

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth

Introduction

Border arte. Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera

To Your Shadow Beast. In Memoriam

The Equation of a Circle

Holiday

Man without a Pen

Hija del mesquite

That’s Tejana

Santiago

Growing Up in Laredo

Harbor

South Texas in July, 2014

Alzheimer’s Aubade

¿Y qué nos pasó, Amá?

Fall into the Fig

Reflections of la Madre Tierra

Chicana

Repair

My mother’s thimble

Growing up a Texas-Mexican Woman

Sinvergüenza on the Banks of the Water

El Paso~El Valle

River of Lost Dreams

The Pyramid I Call Home

Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas

Amorosamente les saludo / Lovingly, I Greet You

A River of Women

Introduction

Between Manifest Destiny and Women’s Rights. Decolonizing Chicana History

“If a woman stands at the door you can’t go in” Jovita’s Story, April 1914

The Ballad of Emma Tenayuca

Para Manuela Solis Sager

La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas History

Casas grandes

No me quites mi español / Don’t Take Away My Spanish

Idioma/Language

My Mother Used to Read to Me

Summertime Blues

Brown Trenzas Are for Mensas

Memories of West Texas

Anticipating a New Life

The Immigrant’s Lament

Not the Last Pretender

Aquí en San Anto/Here in San Anto

Something Severed

Amber Waves of Grain

San Antonio sin Marías

It Is Possible

El conquistador

The Power of Difference

I Wanted Mexican, But I Got H.E.B. Instead

La Elliott (1935–1970)

Brown Mother Full of Stars

Daughters of Burning Sun

Introduction

Santa Barraza

Nora Chapa Mendoza

Celeste De Luna

Carmen Lomas Garza

Verónica Ortegón

María Teresa García Pedroche

Kathy Vargas

Terry Ybañez

Conclusion

Introduction

(Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias

Tía

En trozos/in pieces