Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo

by Bernadine Hernández (Editor), Karen Roybal (Editor)

Overview

For more than forty years, Chicana author Ana Castillo has produced novels, poems, and critical essays that forge connections between generations; challenge borders around race, gender, and sexuality; and critically engage transnational issues of space, identity, and belonging. Her contributions to Latinx cultural production and to Chicana feminist thought have transcended and contributed to feminist praxis, ethnic literature, and border studies throughout the Americas. Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo is the first edited collection that focuses on Castillo’s oeuvre, which directly confronts what happens in response to cultural displacement, mixing, and border crossing. Divided into five sections, this collection thinks about Castillo’s poetics, language, and form, as well as thematic issues such as borders, immigration, gender, sexuality, and transnational feminism. From her first political poetry, Otro Canto, published in 1977, to her mainstream novels such as The Mixquiahuala Letters, So Far From God, and The Guardians, this collection aims to unravel how Castillo’s writing impacts people of color around the globe and works in solidarity with other third world feminisms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822946670
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	06/15/2021
Series:	Latinx and Latin American Profiles
Edition description:	1
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Bernadine Hernández is assistant professor of American literary studies at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Borderlands.

Karen R. Roybal is assistant professor of Southwest studies at Colorado College. She is the author of Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960.
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword Frederick Luis Aldama xiii

Introduction Karen R. Roybal Bernadine M. Hernández 3

Part I The Chicanx Letters

Chapter 1 Lettered Encounters Ximena Keogh Serrano 33

Chapter 2 For the Pleasure of the Chicanx Poet Shanna M. Salinas 49

Chapter 3 Unbounded and Limitless Olga L. Herrera 65

Part II So far from Nation

Chapter 4 "¿A'ca'o qué, comadre?" Avendy Bonifacio 75

Chapter 5 Identity Formation and Dislocation Tereza M. Szeghi 86

Chapter 6 Selling the "Authentic" Electra Gamón Fielding 100

Chapter 7 So Far from Nation Amelia María De La Luz Montes 113

Part III Give it to the Globe

Chapter 8 Queering Space in Ana Castillo's Give It to Me Daniel Shank Cruz 123

Chapter 9 Queer(ing) Motherhood in Ana Castillo's Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me Elena Avilés 134

Chapter 10 Nostalgia for a Future Liliana C. González 148

Chapter 11 Giving It to the Globe Emma Pérez 160

Part IV Mamá, Mijxs, and Me

Chapter 12 Priestess y Pastora Laura Elena Belmonte 169

Chapter 13 The Unbreakable Link Rebecca A. Kennedy De Lorenzini 188

Chapter 14 Feminist Imaginaries of justice Araceli Esparza 201

Chapter 15 Chicana Feminist Literary Subjectivity in a Transnational Frame Ellie D. Hernández 218

Part V Teaching and Pedagogy

Chapter 16 Replanting You as Winyan, Uarhiti, Kwe Gabriela Spears-Rico 231

Chapter 17 Teaching Ana Castillo Leigh Johnson 246

Chapter 18 "Never Stay Silent" Sandra Ruiz 265

Chapter 19 Teaching Chicana Literature in Community College Danizete Martínez 276

Chapter 20 For Todos Lados Norma E. Cantú 288

Part VI An Interview with Ana Castillo

An Interview with Ana Castillo Francisco J. Galarte 299

Conclusion. Latinx/Chicanx Feminist Futures Karen R. Roybal Bernadine M. Hernández 306

Notes 315

Bibliography 353

Contributors 381

Index 387

Editorial Reviews

The range and depth of Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo is truly breathtaking. Hernández and Roybal have assembled a number of brilliant scholars who illuminate how Ana Castillo’s extensive body of work extends from the local to the global, persuasively revealing the international reach of Chicana feminist writing. The value of this collection—and its importance for and beyond the classroom—is immeasurable.” —Richard T. Rodríguez, University of California, Riverside

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