Word images : new perspectives on Canícula and other works by Norma Elia Cantú / edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs ; foreword by María Herrera-Sobek

Published:: Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, 2017.
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Physical Description:: xviii, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella and Herrera-Sobek, María

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Contents:

Foreword. Norma Elia Cantú's cultural landscapes : folklore and aesthetic activism / María Herrera-Sobek -- Introduction. Norma Cantú's Frontera : exile, the law, space, hybridity, and a little poetry / Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- Part I. Critical essays. Hybridity and the space of the border in the writing of Norma Elia Cantú / Ellen McCracken -- Community and exile in Norma E. Cantú's Canícula / Jesús Rosales -- Norma E. Cantú : from Chicana/Fronteriza writer and critic to public intellectual / María Socorro Tabuenca -- Snapshots of law and life in the midcentury Texas borderlands / Steven W. Bender -- Images, identities, and realities in romance of a Little village girl (1955) by Cleofas Jaramillo and Canícula: snapshots of a girlhood en la Frontera (1995) by Norma E. Cantú / Vanessa Fonseca -- A Chicana daughter's blues : Canícula: snapshots of a girlhood en la Frontera / María Esther Quintana Millamoto, translated by Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez, María Esther Quintana Millamoto, and Adrian Ortega -- Word images : an interview with Norma Elia Cantú / Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- Part II. Canícula teaching methodologies. Cantú's decolonial imagination through the looking glass / Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez -- The hidden curriculum of Canícula : critical educational lessons in becoming a Mujer / Aurora Chang -- The alternative lives of Azucena in Norma Elia Cantú's Canícula / Carlos Sibaja García -- A discourse of Norma E. Cantú's Canícula: snapshots of a girlhood en la Frontera and the world of Nepantla y Nepantlera / Rose Rodríguez-Rabin -- Canícula : snapshots of interrelationality, consciousness, and multiple selves / Juan Velasco.

Summary:

This book explores and celebrates works by Norma Elia Cantú, focusing on her critically-acclaimed book, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en La Frontera, a fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s--Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780816534098 paperback ; alkaline paper
0816534098 paperback ; alkaline paper

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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