Women writing resistance
Subtitle: essays on Latin America and the Caribbean
By: edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez ; [preface by Elizabeth Martinez].
Contributors: Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer.
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions; Women -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions; Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions -- Poetry; Women -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions -- Poetry; Women authors, Latin American
Genres: Poetry.
Description: Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchu, Cherrie Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldua, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries. Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice. This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women's literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph. D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon's Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Notes: "Preface by" from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Elizabeth Martinez -- Introduction / -- Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez; title: Revision -- Aurora Levins Morales; title: We are ugly, but we are here -- Edwidge Danticat -- The; title: Silent witness -- Raquel Partnoy; title: And what would it be like? -- Michelle Cliff; title: Everything I kept: reflections on an "anthropoeta" -- Ruth Behar -- The; title: Dream of Nunca Más: healing the wounds -- Emma Sepúlveda; title: Language as an instrument of domination -- Rosario Castellaños; title: Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers -- Gloria Anzaldúa -- Las; title: Aeious -- Ruth Irupé Sanabria; title: Art in América con acento -- Cherríe Moraga -- The; title: Myth of the Latin woman -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The; title: Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992 -- Rigoberta Menchú -- A; title: Massacre in Mexico -- Elena Poniatowska -- A; title: Small place -- Jamaica Kincaid; title: One precious moment -- Margaret Randall; title: On being shorter: how our testimonial texts defy the academy -- Alicia Partnoy; title: Death in the desert: the women of Ciudad Juárez -- Marjorie Agosín; title: I came to help: resistance writ small-- Julia Alvarez.