Women Writing Resistance

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ISBN: 9780896087088 | 0896087085
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Copyright: 1/1/2004

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Whether forced into the Diaspora by structural forces, or participating in political struggles "at home," the women in Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean are connected by their struggles against injustice. Eighteen acclaimed writer-activists are featured in this indispensable collection of essays on art, feminism, and activism. Book jacket.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Re-Envisioning History
Revision	p. 15
We Are Ugly, But We Are Here	p. 23
The Silent Witness	p. 29
And What Would It Be Like?	p. 41
Everything I Kept: Reflections of an "Anthropoeta"	p. 47
The Dream of Nunca Mas: Healing the Wounds	p. 61
The Politics of Language and Identity
Language as an Instrument of Domination	p. 73
Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers	p. 79
Las aeious	p. 91
Art in America con Acento	p. 101
The Myth of the Latin Woman	p. 109
The Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992	p. 117
Strategies of Resistance
A Massacre in Mexico	p. 139
A Small Place	p. 147
One Precious Moment	p. 157
On Being Shorter: How Our Testimonial Texts Defy the Academy	p. 173
Death in the Desert: The Women of Ciudad Juarez	p. 193
I Came to Help: Resistance Writ Small	p. 211
Selected Bibliography	p. 215
Permissions	p. 218
About the Editor and Contributors	p. 221
Index	p. 233
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