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The Resource Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez ; [preface by Elizabeth Martinez]

Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez ; [preface by Elizabeth Martinez]

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Summary
Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchu, Cherrie Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldua, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries. Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice. This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women's literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph. D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon's Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xii, 241 pages
Note
"Preface by" from cover
Contents
  • The
  • Silent witness
  • Raquel Partnoy
  • And what would it be like?
  • Michelle Cliff
  • Everything I kept: reflections on an "anthropoeta"
  • Ruth Behar
  • The
  • Dream of Nunca Más: healing the wounds
  • Emma Sepúlveda
  • Preface
  • Language as an instrument of domination
  • Rosario Castellaños
  • Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers
  • Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Las
  • Aeious
  • Ruth Irupé Sanabria
  • Art in América con acento
  • Cherríe Moraga
  • The
  • Elizabeth Martinez
  • Myth of the Latin woman
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • The
  • Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992
  • Rigoberta Menchú
  • A
  • Massacre in Mexico
  • Elena Poniatowska
  • A
  • Small place
  • Introduction
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • One precious moment
  • Margaret Randall
  • On being shorter: how our testimonial texts defy the academy
  • Alicia Partnoy
  • Death in the desert: the women of Ciudad Juárez
  • Marjorie Agosín
  • I came to help: resistance writ small
  • Julia Alvarez
  • Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
  • Revision
  • Aurora Levins Morales
  • We are ugly, but we are here
  • Edwidge Danticat
Isbn
9780896087088
Instance
Label
Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean
Title
Women writing resistance
Title remainder
essays on Latin America and the Caribbean
Statement of responsibility
edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez ; [preface by Elizabeth Martinez]
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchu, Cherrie Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldua, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries. Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice. This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women's literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph. D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon's Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY
Cataloging source
YUS
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HQ1460.5
LC item number
.W664 2003
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer
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  • Social justice
  • Social justice
  • Ethnicity
  • Ethnicity
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women authors, Latin American
Label
Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez ; [preface by Elizabeth Martinez]
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"Preface by" from cover
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-217) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The
  • Silent witness
  • Raquel Partnoy
  • And what would it be like?
  • Michelle Cliff
  • Everything I kept: reflections on an "anthropoeta"
  • Ruth Behar
  • The
  • Dream of Nunca Más: healing the wounds
  • Emma Sepúlveda
  • Preface
  • Language as an instrument of domination
  • Rosario Castellaños
  • Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers
  • Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Las
  • Aeious
  • Ruth Irupé Sanabria
  • Art in América con acento
  • Cherríe Moraga
  • The
  • Elizabeth Martinez
  • Myth of the Latin woman
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • The
  • Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992
  • Rigoberta Menchú
  • A
  • Massacre in Mexico
  • Elena Poniatowska
  • A
  • Small place
  • Introduction
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • One precious moment
  • Margaret Randall
  • On being shorter: how our testimonial texts defy the academy
  • Alicia Partnoy
  • Death in the desert: the women of Ciudad Juárez
  • Marjorie Agosín
  • I came to help: resistance writ small
  • Julia Alvarez
  • Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
  • Revision
  • Aurora Levins Morales
  • We are ugly, but we are here
  • Edwidge Danticat
Control code
54113518
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xii, 241 pages
Isbn
9780896087088
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
2003115882
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez ; [preface by Elizabeth Martinez]
Publication
Note
"Preface by" from cover
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-217) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The
  • Silent witness
  • Raquel Partnoy
  • And what would it be like?
  • Michelle Cliff
  • Everything I kept: reflections on an "anthropoeta"
  • Ruth Behar
  • The
  • Dream of Nunca Más: healing the wounds
  • Emma Sepúlveda
  • Preface
  • Language as an instrument of domination
  • Rosario Castellaños
  • Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers
  • Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Las
  • Aeious
  • Ruth Irupé Sanabria
  • Art in América con acento
  • Cherríe Moraga
  • The
  • Elizabeth Martinez
  • Myth of the Latin woman
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • The
  • Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992
  • Rigoberta Menchú
  • A
  • Massacre in Mexico
  • Elena Poniatowska
  • A
  • Small place
  • Introduction
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • One precious moment
  • Margaret Randall
  • On being shorter: how our testimonial texts defy the academy
  • Alicia Partnoy
  • Death in the desert: the women of Ciudad Juárez
  • Marjorie Agosín
  • I came to help: resistance writ small
  • Julia Alvarez
  • Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
  • Revision
  • Aurora Levins Morales
  • We are ugly, but we are here
  • Edwidge Danticat
Control code
54113518
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xii, 241 pages
Isbn
9780896087088
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
2003115882
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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illustrations

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