Massacre of the dreamers
Subtitle: essays on Xicanisma
By: Ana Castillo.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Mexican American women; Feminism -- United States
Description: The "I" in these critical essays by novelist, poet, scholar, and activist/curandera Ana Castillo is that of the Mexic-Amerindian woman living in the United States. The essays are addressed to everyone interested in the roots of the colonized woman's reality. Castillo introduces the term Xicanisma in a passionate call for a politically active, socially committed Chicana feminism.

In "A Countryless Woman," Castillo outlines the experience of the brown woman in a racist society that recognizes race relations mostly as a black and white dilemma. Essays on the Watsonville strike, the early Chicano movement, and the roots of machismo illustrate the extent to which women still struggle against male dominance. Other essays suggest strategies for opposing the suppression of women's spirituality and sexuality by institutionalized religion and the state.

These challenging essays will be a provocative guide for those who envision a new future for women as we face a new century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Countryless woman: the early feminista; title: The 1986 Watsonville women's strike: a case of Mexicana activism; title: The ancient roots of machismo; title: Saintly mother and soldier's whore: the leftist/Catholic paradigm; title: In the beginning there was Eva; title: La macha: toward an erotic whole self; title: Un tapiz: poetics of conscientización; title: Brujas and curanderas: a lived spirituality; title: Toward the mother-bond principle; title: Resurrection of the dreamers.