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...

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