Conversations with Mexican American writers
Subtitle: languages and literatures in the borderlands
By: Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, Nancy Sullivan.
Contributors: Mermann-Jozwiak, Elisabeth.; Sullivan, Nancy.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604732146; 9781604732153
Subjects: Mexican American authors -- Interviews; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews; American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican American authors -- Political and social views; American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life; Mexican Americans in literature
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Interviews with nine Mexican American authors conducted primarily in 2007.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stories that must be told: an introduction; title: The stuff that you pull out of your kischkas: conversation with Montserrat Fontes; title: Braiding languages, weaving cultures: conversation with Diana Montejano; title: You must be the change you wish to see in the world: conversation with Pat Mora; title: Between belonging and exile: conversation with Benjamin Alire Sáenz; title: Muy payasa: conversation with Sandra Cisneros; title: You carry the border with you: conversation with Helena María Viramontes; title: My grandmother makes the best tortillas and other stereotypes: conversation with Dagoberto Gilb; title: Testimonio, reconnection, and forgiveness: conversation with Norma ElÍa Cantú; title: Ay, el inglés tan bonito!: conversation with Denise Chávez.