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Golondrina, why did you leave me?
A Novel
University of Texas Press
A powerful story of losses, triumphs, and the strong ties that bind a working-class Tejano family in the Texas panhandle.
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature
University of Texas Press
A comparative reading of literature by Mexicanas and Chicanas, including Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Carmen Boullosa, and Helena María Viramontes, that raises compelling questions about the very nature of cultural constructs in literature.
Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature
University of Texas Press
Placing texts of Chicana/o indigenism and nationalism alongside European and Euro-American ethnographic, travel, and journalistic writing, this is the first comprehensive, comparative literary study of its kind.
Teatro Chicana
A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
University of Texas Press
A firsthand history of a Chicana women's political theatre group that operated in the 1970s and 1980s in San Diego.
Fertile Matters
The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction
University of Texas Press
An exploration into how Mexican-origin women’s reproduction has been stereotyped and demonized in the United States.
This Land Was Mexican Once
Histories of Resistance from Northern California
University of Texas Press
A model for telling the multicultural history of the American West, starting with Napa County, California.
The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
Essays on Chicana/Latina Literature and Criticism
University of Texas Press
A series of wide-ranging essays on the growth--and marginalization--of Chicana/Latina literature, criticism, and art.
With Her Machete in Her Hand
Reading Chicana Lesbians
University of Texas Press
The first history of Chicana lesbian writing from the 1970s until today.
Shakin' Up Race and Gender
Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
University of Texas Press
The first comparative study of the literature and cultures of three distinct yet interrelated ethnic groups: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos.
The Wounded Heart
Writing on Cherríe Moraga
University of Texas Press
Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga’s writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga’s work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.