Critical Resources -U.S. Latina Women's Narrative - Literatura de Latinas en Estados Unidos

My book on Latina Narrative:

Antonia Domínguez Miguela. Esa imagen que en mi espejo se detiene: La herencia femenina en la narrativa de Latinas en Estados Unidos. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2001. (Recovering a Matrilineal Heritage in US Latina Narrative)

Re-creación de la tradición literaria femenina. El discurso narrativo de la escritora latina

	Transformación de la tradición oral: las nuevas Sherezades.
	La hibridez del género y del discurso literario
	Tropicalización y feminización del lenguaje

Construcciones culturales y raciales del género. Revisión de estereotipos y mitos femeninos.

	Estereotipos sobre la mujer latina en la sociedad anglosajona
	Arquetipos y mitos femeninos en la cultura latina: el imperio maniqueísta de las dicotomías

Revisión de roles y relaciones femeninas. Recuperación de la línea materna.

	Nacidas de mujer
	Madres e hijas en la narrativa de latinas
	Traición femenina y distorsión de la relación madre-hija
	Reencuentro femenino: "resolución del conflicto"
	La figura mítica de la abuela: recuperación de una herencia femenina y cultural

Obras citadas

My articles and critical pieces

	"Growing Up Latina in the United States: Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Thier Accents, Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun"
	“Latina Narrative as Postmodernist Ethnic Commodity: New Sites of Rupture, Ambivalence and Playfulness,” in Philologia Hispalensis 13.2 (1999)
	"Creando un puente entre las dos orillas: La identidad puertorriqueña y los espacios narrativos en la obra literaria de Judith Ortiz Cofer" in Literatura de las Américas (2000)
	"Reinventing Themselves: Forging a Latina Identity"
	Empleadas’ in the USA: Latina Domestic Workers Negotiating Power among Boundaries of Race, Class and Gender
	“Finding ‘Poetic Truth’: The Politics of Memory and Ethnic Transcreation in Contemporary Latina Autobiography” in Travelling Across Cultures/Viaxes Culturais: The Twentieth-Century American Experience, 2000.
	“Tropicalizing the Other’s Culture and Language in Latino/a Literature,”
	"Language Tropicalization in Latino/a Literature"
	“Bridges in the Air: Literary Tropes for Border Identity.”
	"Soñando con un futuro mejor: América’s Dream de Esmeralda Santiago.”
	“Views of the Barrio in Chicano and Puerto Rican Narrative,”
	“Nacionalismo y ciudadanía cultural en la narrativa latina en Estados Unidos,”
	"From Whispers and Moans to Strong Voices: Recognizing a Matrilineal Heritage in Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel"
	"'Empleadas' in the USA: Latina Domestic Workes Negotiating Power among Boundaris of Race, class and Gender" in Culture and Power: Cultural Confrontations (1999)
	"El exilio como búsqueda de identidad en Esmeralda Santiago's América's Dream"
	Recreación de una patria soñada:Los espacios literarios en la narrativa cubanoamericana in Entre líneas 1 (2001)
	Redefining Puerto Ricanness in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican in Proceedings of the XXII Conference of AEDEAN (2000)
	Literary Tropicalizations of the Barrio in Ernesto Quiñonez's Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega's Mendoza's Dreams (forthcoming)

Ellen McCracken. New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Introduction: Narrative and Social Change: Containment and Resistance in new Latina Narrative

1: Postmodern Ethnicty as Commodity: Containment and Resistance in New Latina Narrative

2: The Politics of Signification

3: Beyond Individualism: Collective Narration, History, and teh Autobiographical Simulacrum

4: Remapping Religious Space: Orthodx and Non-orthodox Religious Cultur

5: Transgressive Narrtive Tactics and Subcultural Expression

6: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Truth

Critical essays on Chicana writers and their works:

The Theoretical Subjects of This Bridge Called my Back and Anglo-American Feminism by Norma Alarcón

The Sardonic Power of the Erotic in the Work of Ana Castillo, by Norma Alarcón

La literatura de la chicana: Un reto sexual y racial del proletariado by Norma Alarcón

The (Subversive) Mixquiahuala Letters: An Antidote for Self-Hate by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

Tradition and Mythology. Signatures of Landscape in Chicana Literature by Tey Diana Rebolledo in The Desert is no Lady

"And You Know what I have to Say isn't alñways Pleasant": Translating the Unspoken Word in Sandra Cisnero's Woman Hollering Creek by Katherine Rios

El "alma" de la Villanueva: Poder y resistencia en The Ultraviolet Sky by Kimberly A. Kowalczyk in La mujer y su representación en las literaturas hispánicas

Interview with Denise Chávez by Anne O. Eysturoy

Crossing Gender Borders: Sexual Relations and Chicana Artistic Identity by Elisabeth Coonrod Martínez

Introduction to Cuentos: Stories by Latinas by

Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies on Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideololgy edited by Hector Calderon and José David Saldívar.

	Foreword: Redefining American Literature
	Introduction
	The Rewriting of American Literary History by Luis leal
	Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History by Ramón Saldívar
	Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer by Alvina E. Quintana

Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics by Sonia Saldívar-Hull

Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices by Alvina E. Quintana, 1996.

	Introduction: Testimonio as Biotheory
	Politics, Representation, and Emergence of Chicana Aesthetics
	The House on Mango Street: An Appropriation of Word, Space and Sign
	Orality, Tradition, and Culture: Denise Chávez's Novenas Narrativas and The Last of the Menu Girls.
	New Visions: Culture, Sexuality and Autobiography

Chicana Creativity and Criticism: New Frontiers in American Literature, edited by María Herrera-Sobek and Helena Mª Viramontes

Introduction by María Herrera-Sobek

Chicana (W)Rites on Word and Film edited by María Herrera-Sobek and Helena Mª Viramontes.

Introduction by María Herrera-Sobek

Critical essays on Puerto Rican writers:

	Creating Cultural Consciousness in Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing by Stacey Sinkiewicz
	A Melus Interview with Judit Ortiz Cofer by Edna Acosta Belén
	An Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer by Stephanie Gordon
	Speaking in Puerto Rican: An Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer by Rafael Ocasio and Rita Ganey
	Puerto Rican Literature in Gerogia? An INterview with Judith Ortiz Cofer by Rafael Ocasio
	Possibilities for Salsa Music in the Mainstream: An INterview with Judith Ortiz Cofer by Lorraine M. López

Critical Essays on Cuban American writers:

"Geographies of Identity in Cuban American Narrative" in Evolving Origins, Transplanting Cultures: Literary Legacies of New Americans, 2002.

Bibliographies

	My Bibliography on Latina writers (from my book)
	My Bibliography on Latino/a Literature (contact me to get password)
	Bibliography on Latinas By Kirsten Ernst
	Bibliography on Chicanas by María Herrera-Sobek in Chicana Creativity and Criticism
	Bibliography on Latino Literature by Elizabeth García in Latino Promotions
	Selected and Annotated Bibliography on Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism in Criticism in the Borderlands
	Bibliography on Puerto Rican Literature in the United States by Edna Acosta-Belén
	Latino Literature: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography by Marc Zimmerman