Entre Guadalupe y Malinche : : Tejanas in Literature and Art / / ed. by Norma Elia Cantú, Inés Hernández-Ávila.

• MitwirkendeR: Amescua, Gloria,; Anzaldúa, Gloria,; Castellano, Olivia,; Castro, Rosie,; Catacalos, Rosemary,; Chávez Leyva, Yolanda,; Cásarez Vásquez, Enedina,; Cásarez, Josephine,; Elia Cantú, Norma,; Eugenia Guerra, María,; Flores, Anel,; Fregoso, Rosa-Linda,; Galindo, Mary Sue,; Garza de Cortés, Oralia,; Garza, Beatriz de la,; Gaspar de Alba, Alicia,; Gonzales, Patrisia,; Guerra, Susan M.,; Guerra, Susan,; Guerrero Milligan, Mary,; Guzmán Mendoza, Celeste,; Hernández-Ávila, Inés,; Herrera, Sylvia,; Herrera-Sobek, María,; Huerta Garza, Paulita,; Hurtado, Aída,; Lara Silva, Ire’Ne,; Ledesma, Sylvia,; Letticia Galindo, D.,; Limón, María,; Luna Lawhn, Juanita A.,; Luna Lawhn, Juanita,; López, Laura M.,; Manriquez Segura, B. J.,; Margaret Navar, Mary,; Melody Gómez, Tammy,; Mora, Pat,; Orozco, Aurora,; Palomo Acosta, Teresa,; Paredez, Deborah,; Parra Codina, Laura,; Pérez, Emma,; Pérez, Emmy,; Renaud González, Bárbara,; Renee Pérez, Domino,; Rentería Almanza, Susana,; Reyna, Dorotea,; Saldívar-Hull, Sonia,; Sanchez-Padilla, Beva,; Silva, María,; Stageberg, Mia K.,; Tafolla, Carmen,; Tamez, Margo,; Treviño, Rose,; Valenzuela, Angela,; Valenzuela, Liliana,; Valle-Sentíes, Raquel,; Vigil, Evangelina,; Villalobos Silvas, Edith,
• HerausgeberIn: Cantú, Norma Elia,; Hernández-Ávila, Inés,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences of women who identify as Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts. The writings of more than fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists manifest the nuanced complexity of what it means to be Tejana and how this identity offers alternative perspectives to contemporary notions of Chicana identity, community, and culture. Considering Texas-Mexican women and their identity formations, subjectivities, and location on the longest border between Mexico and any of the southwestern states acknowledges the profound influence that land and history have on a people and a community, and how Tejana creative traditions have been shaped by historical, geographical, cultural, linguistic, social, and political forces. This representation of Tejana arts and letters brings together the work of rising stars along with well-known figures such as writers Gloria Anzaldúa, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Carmen Tafolla, and Pat Mora, and artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Kathy Vargas, Santa Barraza, and more. The collection attests to the rooted presence of the original indigenous peoples of the land now known as Tejas, as well as a strong Chicana/Mexicana feminism that has its precursors in Tejana history itself.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth -- I. Enterrando ombligos/Burying the Umbilical Cord: Tejanas in a Texas Land -- Introduction -- Border arte. Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera -- To Your Shadow Beast. In Memoriam -- The Equation of a Circle -- Holiday -- Man without a Pen -- Hija del mesquite -- That’s Tejana -- Santiago -- Growing Up in Laredo -- Harbor -- South Texas in July, 2014 -- Alzheimer’s Aubade -- ¿Y qué nos pasó, Amá? -- Fall into the Fig -- Reflections of la Madre Tierra -- Chicana -- Repair -- My mother’s thimble -- Growing up a Texas-Mexican Woman -- Sinvergüenza on the Banks of the Water -- El Paso~El Valle -- River of Lost Dreams -- The Pyramid I Call Home -- Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas -- Amorosamente les saludo / Lovingly, I Greet You -- A River of Women -- II. Dolores profundos y la gracia de la vida/ Deep Hurts and the Grace of Life -- Introduction -- Between Manifest Destiny and Women’s Rights. Decolonizing Chicana History -- “If a woman stands at the door you can’t go in” Jovita’s Story, April 1914 -- The Ballad of Emma Tenayuca -- Para Manuela Solis Sager -- La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas History -- Casas grandes -- No me quites mi español / Don’t Take Away My Spanish -- Idioma/Language -- My Mother Used to Read to Me -- Summertime Blues -- Brown Trenzas Are for Mensas -- Memories of West Texas -- Anticipating a New Life -- The Immigrant’s Lament -- Not the Last Pretender -- Aquí en San Anto/Here in San Anto -- Something Severed -- Amber Waves of Grain -- San Antonio sin Marías -- It Is Possible -- El conquistador -- The Power of Difference -- I Wanted Mexican, But I Got H.E.B. Instead -- La Elliott (1935–1970) -- Brown Mother Full of Stars -- Daughters of Burning Sun -- III. Arte y semblanza: Tejana Artivists -- Introduction -- Santa Barraza -- Nora Chapa Mendoza -- Celeste De Luna -- Carmen Lomas Garza -- Verónica Ortegón -- María Teresa García Pedroche -- Kathy Vargas -- Terry Ybañez -- Conclusion -- IV. All Our Relations: Our Connections to Land, Family, Friends -- Introduction -- (Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias -- Tía -- En trozos/in pieces -- Skyway Dreams -- Ábreme la puerta -- We, the Obsessed -- Amorcito corazón -- A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes on the Geography of Shame -- She/Woman/Man -- An Understanding -- No More Trenzas -- Role Model -- Bad Hair Day -- Nocturne: cuando el destino -- Moustache -- At the VA Telemetry Ward -- Longing for Tejas Blues -- My Mother’s Cuartito -- Dinner with Dad -- Mothering I -- Sueños argentinos/Argentine Dreams -- Argentine Dreams -- Woman and Pain -- The Garden -- Forgiving Stephen F. Austin and the old three hundred -- Viva la libertad: Mensaje a las mujeres / Long Live Liberty: A Message to Women -- Let Us Hold Hands -- Tierra incógnita -- Ghosts of a Mexican Past (excerpt) -- Asking for Pears: A Limpia Not Just a Love Poem -- V. (Auto)compromisos y comunidad: Gifts of Powerful, Conscious Loving -- Introduction -- La Dormilona Dreamt of Home from the Shore of Erie -- Hoy detengo el curso de los ríos -- Today I Stop the River in Its Tracks -- Ya lo verás -- Chicanas Never Feared -- Con todo respeto para la raza más apreciada, los chicanos/With All My Respect for My Dearest People, the Chicanos -- In Finite F Light -- Body I -- Tejana Tongues/Lenguas tejanas -- Canto a la tierra -- Reina de copas -- In Memory of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita Pérez Mejía 08/25/03–03/11/93 -- Ofrenda for Lobo: November 2, 1993 -- Feliz Navidad, Daddy -- One dream of so many -- Sóplame la vida -- Plegaria milenaria / Millenial Prayer -- One-sided conversations with my mother -- Luchando por libertad / Struggling for Freedom -- Picture Postcard from a Painter -- An Omen -- Cuando tú me besas/When You Kiss Me -- My Woman and Her Bird -- Trozos de amor a la vida/Pieces of Love to Life -- Because faith has called me out -- El silencio -- Healing a Culture, AD 2000 -- Epilogue. ¡Adelante y con ganas!, by Norma Elia Cantú -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Further Reading -- Contributors