Word Images

New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú

Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs; Foreword by María Herrera-Sobek

The University of Arizona Press

This collection of critical essays unveils for the first time Norma Elia Cantú’s contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantú’s work: Part 1 comprises essays that individually examine Cantú’s oeuvre through critical analysis. Part 2 is dedicated to ideas and techniques to improve the use of this literature by teachers and professors, with a particular focus on tools for using Canícula.

Contributors:

Steven W. Bender
Aurora Chang
Vanessa Fonseca
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
María Herrera-Sobek
Ellen McCracken
María Esther Quintana Millamoto
Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez
Rose Rodríguez-Rabin
Jesús Rosales
Carlos Sibaja García
María Socorro Tabuenca
Juan Velasco

Reviews

A significant contribution to Chicana and Chicano literature.’—Amelia María de la Luz Montes, co-editor of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives
‘A strong collection that demonstrates the complexity and significance of Cantú’s work to the fields of folklore studies, literary criticism, and ethnography.’—Cristina Herrera, author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script

Editor

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a professor of modern languages and women and gender studies at Seattle University, where she is also the director for the Center for the Study of Justice in Society. Gutiérrez y Muhs is the author or editor of several books, including Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena María Viramontes Critical Reader and first editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia.

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