Latina Histories and Cultures

Latina Histories and Cultures

Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge

  • Auteur: Feu, Montse
  • Éditeur: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558859647
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518507625
  • eISBN Epub: 9781518507601
  • Lieu de publication:  Houston , United States
  • Année de publication: 2023
  • Pages: 377

This collection of academic essays introduces new research on Latina histories and cultures from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980. Examining a wide range of source materials, including personal and institutional archives, literature and oral history, the authors of the fifteen articles use transnational approaches and Latina feminist theory to remind us of a principle that is still too often forgotten: that sex and gender should be centered as crucial problematics in the study of the long history of Latina/o/x literature and culture. Applying an intersectional methodology that analyzes gender in relation to numerous identities—race, class, sexuality, language and nationality—the scholars explore diverse subjects such as the literary work of historical Latina authors María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and María Cristina Mena; the travails of Basque women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and Chicana activism in Wyoming in the 1970s and 1980s. The book is divided into four sections: Feminist Readings of Latina Authors; Gender, Politics and Power in the Spanish-Language Press; Radical Latinas’ Politics; and Reclaiming Community, Reclaiming Knowledge. In their introduction, editors Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla map significant elements in the practice of Latina feminist recovery and suggest the importance of using queer studies frameworks and speculative approaches to archives in order to amplify queer, Afro-Latina/o and indigenous voices. Published as part of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, Latina Histories and Cultures continues the efforts to rescue the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States and will be required reading for academics and students in a variety of disciplines.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • “The Practice of Latina Feminist Recovery” By montse feu and y olanda padilla
  • Part I. Feminist Readings of Latina Authors
  • “Citizenship, Suffrage, and the (Un)making of the Mexican-American Woman Citizen in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?”, Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera
  • “Translating the Tapada’s Veil in Who Would Have Thought It?”, Evelyn Soto
  • “Aurora Mena and The Pearl Key: Unlocking the Meaning of a Mambisa’s Story Paul S. Losch
  • “María Cristina Mena and the Masturbating Boy”, William Orchard
  • Part II. Forum on Chicana Memory
  • “A Forum on Chicana Memory Work Past, Present, and Future: Nuestras Autohistorias” María Cotera, Anna Nietogomez, Martha P. Cotera,
  • Part III. Gender, Politics, and Power in the Spanish-Language Press
  • “Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Puerto Rico’s Colonial Press”, Ayendy Bonifacio
  • “Entre la plancha y la página: Early Twentieth-Century Mexicana Food Work and the Spanish-Language Press in Two Texas Cities” Monica Perales
  • “Adelina ‘Nina’ Otero-Warren: A Nuevomexicana in Suffrage, Politics and Letters in the Early Twentieth Century” Anna M. Nogar
  • Part IV. Radical Latina’s Politics
  • “Luisa Capetillo, Free Love and the Falda-Pantalón” Christopher Castañeda
  • “Loud, Hidden Voices of the Revolution: Reynalda González Parra, Organized Labor, and Feminismo Transfronterizo” Sonia Hernández
  • “Josefina de la Grana’s Letters to the Editor: A Window into her Activism in Tampa, Florida” Ana Varela-Lago
  • “AKA Frances: Francisca Flores and the Radical Roots of Chicana Feminism in California” Pablo Landeros
  • Part V. Reclaiming Community, Reclaiming Knowledge
  • “Mujeres y mártires: Cristero Diaspora Literature” Anita Huizar-Hernández
  • “Mujeres vascas en Estados Unidos, 1850-1950: La formación de una comunidad” Koldo San Sebastián
  • “‘We Were Always Chicanos,’ or, ‘We Did it Our Way’: Situated Citizenship in the Equality State” Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez
  • List of USLDH Grants-in-Aid (2020-2023)
  • Editors and Contributors
  • Endnotes

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