Poems, stories, and essays describe the political and personal implications of being a gay chicana in modern America

Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios

Literature & Fiction

Cherríe Moraga

Poetry

South End Press

Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchú, Cherríe Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries.
Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice.
This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women’s literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas.
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon’s Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

JULIA ALVAREZ

Rosario Castellanos

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez

EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Michelle Cliff

Raquel Partnoy

Ruth Behar

History & Criticism

Cuentos: Stories by Latinas, Alma Gómez, Cherríe Moraga and Mariana Romo-Carmona, Editors. The first collection of short fiction to bring together writing by Latinas from both the U.S. and Latin America. The thirty stories break "la cultura de silencio" by depicting the myriad unrecognized ways Latinas have resisted colonization both in the flesh and in the spirit. Cuentos include selections in Spanish and English with a bilingual introduction by the editors.

Cuentos: Stories by Latinas (English and Spanish Edition)

Alma Gomez

Mariana Romo-Carmona

Contemporary

Kitchen Table/Women of Color Pr

The plays, written between 1986 and 1991, have been performed or read in theaters across the United States. They shatter myths and create a broader, freer space for women's cultural development.

Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women

Josefina Lopez

Migdalia Cruz

Caridad Svich

Edit Villarreal

Diana Saenz

Dramas & Plays

Arte Publico Press

Inspired by the ancient Greek mythology of Medea, often depicted as a mortal sorceress with divine ancestry, five master playwrights explore the varied mythological legends in The Myth Strikes Back and offer inspired views that extend into equally varied contemporary environments.

The Myth Strikes Back: MEDEA Plays by Women

Marianne McDonald

Velin Hasu Houston

Kirsten Brandt

Liz Lochhead

Murasaki Books

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