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  El Bronx Remembered

  by Nicholasa Mohr

  In a city called New York ... In a neighborhood called El Bronx ... The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star. A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future. A young boy must face the humiliation of wearing his uncle's orange roach-killer shoes to his high school graduation. In the South Bronx - or El... (more)
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  Bitter Grounds: A Novel

  by Sandra Benitez

  ABOUTBOOK: In 1932 El Salvador, Elena de Contreras and her husband Ernesto live the luxurious life of the very wealthy: regular trips to Europe and the United States, vast amounts of property, several gorgeous homes. In sharp contrast to their privileged existence, however, are the lives of the coffee workers they employ, who know only the hardships of back-breaking labor and low wages. Mercedes Prieto, a Pipil... (more)
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  The Moths and Other Stories

  by Helena Mari?a Viramontes

  Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but the central theme is the social and cultural values which shape women's lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success.
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  Mascaras (Series in Chicana/Latina Studies)

  anthology Latina writers incl Cisneros, Alvarez &c
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  U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context: Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference

  by Irene I. Blea

  Using her observations of the Fourth World Women's Conference held in China in 1995 as a foundation, the author examines the history and current situation of Latinas and attempts to place them in a global context. After examining the goals, objectives, and atmosphere of the Conference, she analyzes the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy and how Chicanas have struggled to relate to the Conference and its... (more)
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  Beyond the Border: A New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction

  A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race, politics, sexual needs, love, old age, and child abuse.
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  Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color

  by Gloria Anzaldua, Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz

  A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present concerns in over seventy pieces that vary from writing by new talents to... (more)
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  The House of Spirits

  by Isabel Allende

  Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de... (more)
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  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)

  by Julia Alvarez

  Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents all in their journey toward adulthood. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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  The Mixquiahuala Letters

  by Ana Castillo

  Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cort&#225zar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. Ana Castillo's groundbreaking first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters , received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is... (more)
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  Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories

  by Roberta Ferna?ndez

  In this deftly-narrated novel made up of sensitive portraits of six extraordinary women of the Southwest, Fernández examines the deep-rooted culture of women born at the turn of the century on the U.S./Mexico border.
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  La frontera/Borderlands

  by Gloria Anzaldua

  Cultural Writing. Chicana Studies. Women's Studies. "The actual physical borderland that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S., Southwest/ Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands, and spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races... (more)
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  Loving in the War Years (South End Press Classics Series)

  by Cherrie Moraga

  Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition-including a new introduction and three new essays-remains a testament of Moraga's coming-of-age as a Chicana and a lesbian at a time when the political merging of those two identities was severely... (more)
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  The Tree of Red Stars

  by Tessa Bridal

  Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the Friends of America Writers Award in 1997, this vivid debut, set in Uruguay in the 1960s, charts the toll of political events on a young woman and those close to her, as their democracy is gradually taken over by a military dictatorship.
• Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two ActsCherrie Moraga

  

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  Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts

  by Cherrie Moraga

• Mas Sal Que Dulce Saltier Than Sweet: Bilingual English-Spanish PoetryOlivia MacIel

  

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  Mas Sal Que Dulce Saltier Than Sweet: Bilingual English-Spanish Poetry

  by Olivia MacIel

  poetry/Jose Marti award Mexican-US poet, bilingual
• Cuban Women NowMargaret Randall

  

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  Cuban Women Now

  by Margaret Randall

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  Growing Up Chicana/o

  What Does It Mean To Grow Up Chicana/o? When I was growing up, I never read anything in school by anyone who had a "Z" in their last name. This anthology is, in many ways, a public gift to that child who was always searching for herself whithin the pages of a book. from the Introduction by Tiffany Ana Lopez Louie The Foot Gonzalez tells of an eighty-nine-year-old woman with only one tooth who did strange... (more)
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  The Wedding

  by Mary Helen Ponce

  Although Blanca Muñoz has known Sammy-the-Cricket all of her life, she never considered him boyfriend material until the summer she turned eighteen. He's not particularly good looking, he doesn't drive a fancy car, he doesn't dance well, and he doesn't have a good job. Worst of all he wears zoot suits and belongs to the Los Tacones gang. Blanca has always promised herself she would avoid guys like Cricket. But... (more)
• Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an Emerging LiteratureMarta Ester Sanchez

  

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  Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an Emerging Literature

  by Marta Ester Sa?nchez

  This is the first in-depth analysis of four emerging Chicana poets: Alma Villan ueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice Zamora. Focusing on key poems, Sanchez traces conflicts arising from cultural and sexual identi ty, as well as from the role of poet. In Villanueva's ``(wo)man,'' we hear the familiar cry of contemporary Anglo women poets: ``I celebrate our bod ies . . . '' but the life force is... (more)