Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latin America by Latina Feminist Group,Aurora Levins Morales,Patricia PDF

By Latina Feminist Group,Aurora Levins Morales,Patricia Zavella,Norma Alarcón,Ruth Behar,Luz del Alba Acevedo,Celia Alvarez,Rina Benmayor,Clara Lomas,Daisy Cocco de Filippis,Gloria Holguín Cuádraz,Licia Fiol-Matta,Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz,Mirtha F. Quinta

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Telling to Live embodies the imaginative and prescient that forced Latina feminists to interact their alterations and locate universal floor. Its individuals mirror diverse classification, spiritual, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and nationwide backgrounds. but in a single method or one other they're all specialist manufacturers of testimonios—or existence stories—whether as poets, oral historians, literary students, ethnographers, or psychologists. via coalitional politics, those ladies have solid feminist political stances approximately producing wisdom via adventure. Reclaiming testimonio as a device for knowing the complexities of Latina id, they examine how each one made the adventure to develop into credentialed artistic thinkers and writers. Telling to Live unleashes the clarifying strength of sharing those stories.
The advanced and wealthy tapestry of narratives that contains this ebook introduces us to an intergenerational team of Latina ladies who negotiate their position in U.S. society on the cusp of the twenty-first century. those are the tales of girls who struggled to arrive the echelons of upper schooling, frequently opposed to nice odds, and built relationships of sustenance and creativity alongside the way in which. The tales, poetry, memoirs, and reflections of this various workforce of Puerto Rican, Chicana, local American, Mexican, Cuban, Dominican, Sephardic, mixed-heritage, and important American girls supply new views on feminist theorizing, views positioned within the borderlands of Latino cultures.
This usually center wrenching, occasionally playful, but constantly insightful assortment will curiosity those that desire to comprehend the demanding situations U.S. society poses for girls of advanced cultural heritages who try to carve out their very own areas within the ivory tower.

Contributors. Luz del Alba Acevedo, Norma Alarcón, Celia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, Rina Benmayor, Norma E. Cantú, Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Gloria Holguín Cuádraz, Liza Fiol-Matta, Yvette Flores-Ortiz, Inés Hernández-Avila, Aurora Levins Morales, Clara Lomas, Iris Ofelia López, Mirtha N. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, Caridad Souza, Patricia Zavella

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