Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Alicia Gaspar de Alba is professor of Chicano studies and English, University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders.
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Sor Juana's Second Dream
A Novel
University of New Mexico Press
This historically accurate and beautifully written novel explores the secret inclinations, subjective desires, and political struggles of the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet.
- Copyright year: 2007
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[Un]framing the "Bad Woman"
Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause
University of Texas Press
One of America’s leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that “frame” women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as “bad women” and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.
- Copyright year: 2014
Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House
Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition
University of Texas Press
The first interdisciplinary cultural study of a major exhibition of Chicano/a art.
- Copyright year: 1997
Making a Killing
Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán
University of Texas Press
Bringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis, this is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the murders of more than five hundred women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
- Copyright year: 2010
Our Lady of Controversy
Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López
University of Texas Press
An anthology of vibrant responses to Alma López’s controversial print Our Lady, exploring critical issues of censorship, religion, and the female body.
- Copyright year: 2011
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