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1 online resource (xxviii, 402 pages) |
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"Doing" theory in other modes of consciousness. The race for theory / Barbara Christian -- The politics of poetics or, what am I, a critic, doing in this text anyhow? / Tey Diana Rebolledo -- The theoretical subject(s) of This bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcón -- Definition of womanist / Alice Walker -- Not you/like you post-colonial women and the interlocking questions of identity and difference / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Legal alien / Pat Mora -- La conciencia de la mestiza towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Playfulness, "world"-travelling, and loving perception / María Lugones |
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(De)colonized selves finding hope through horror turning the pain around strategies for growth. I give you back / Joy Harjo -- To Omoni, in Korea / Anne Mi Ok Bruining -- A letter to my daughter / Siu Wai Anderson -- Journeys of the mind / Anne Waters -- You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan -- In magazines (I found specimens of the beautiful) / Ekua Osmosupe -- Notes on oppression and violence / Aletícia Tijerina -- Where is the love? / June Jordan |
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Denial and betrayal. Suicide note / Janice Mirikitani -- Postscript / Canéla Jaramillo -- A woman cutting celery / Sandra Cisneros -- Notes from a fragmented daughter / Elena Tajima Creef -- Light skinned-ded naps / Kristal Brent Zook -- The visit home / Rosemary Cho Leyson -- Turtle gal / Beth Brant -- Masks of woman / Mitsuye Yamada -- Corrosion / Gisele Fong -- La dulce culpa / Cherríe Moraga -- Sessions / Nora Cobb -- On passing / Laura Munter-Orabona -- Notes from a Chicana "coed" / Bernice Zamora -- Corazón de una anciana / Edna Escamill -- Between ourselves / Audre Lorde -- En rapport, in opposition cobrando cuentas a las nuestras / Gloria Anzaldúa |
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If you would be my ally in alliance, in solidarity. For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend / Pat Parker -- Some like Indians endure / Paula Gunn Allen -- Girlfriends / Andrea R. Canaan -- Developing unity among women of color crossing the barriers of internalized racism and cross-racial hostility / Virginia R. Harris, Trinity A. Ordoña -- Nods that silence / Lynet Uttal -- I am your sister black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Recognizing, accepting and celebrating our differences / Papusa Molina |
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In silence, giving tongue the transformation of silence into (an)other alphabet. Periquita / Carmen Morones -- Refugee ship / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Her rites of passage / Lynda Marín -- The Eskimos / Barbara Ruth -- Palabra de mujer / Elba Rosario Sánchez -- Elena Unnatural speech / Pat Mora -- The three tongues / Catalina Ríos -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak / Joy Harjo -- Prisons of silence / Janice Mirikitani -- I lost it at the movies / Jewelle Gomez -- Talking back / bell hooks -- The girl who wouldn't sing / Kit Yuen Quan |
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Political arts, subversive acts. Madness disguises sanity / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Not editable / Chrystos -- A Julia de Burgos / Julia de Burgos -- Grace / Carmen Morones -- Commitment from the mirror-writing box / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Judy Baca our people are the internal exiles / Diane Neumaier -- Object into subject some thoughts on the work of black women artists / Michelle Cliff -- "Nopalitos" the making of fiction / Helena María Viramontes |
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Still trembles our rage in the face of racism there is war some losses can't be counted. What the gypsy said to her children / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between races / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Punto final / Shirley Hill Witt -- We exist / Janice Gould -- Desert run / Mitsuye Yamada -- Generations of women / Janice Mirikitani -- Something about the subject makes it hard to name / Gloria Yamato -- Racism and women's studies / Barbara Smith -- The costs of exclusionary practices in women's studies / Maxine Baca Zinn, Lynn Weber Cannon, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Inclusion without influence the continuing tokenism of women of color / Lynet Uttal -- Hablando cara a cara/Speaking face to face an exploration of ethnocentric racism / María Lugones -- Feminism and racism a report on the 1981 National Women's Studies Association Conference / Chela Sandoval |
Analysis |
American literature 20th century |
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American literature California |
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American literature Minority authors |
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American literature Women authors |
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Feminism and literature United States |
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Feminism Literary collections |
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Minority women Literary collections |
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Women United States Literary collections |
Notes |
"Minority women/Faminism"--Page 4 of cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Lambda Literary Award, 1990 |
Subject |
American literature -- Minority authors.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature -- California.
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Feminism and literature -- United States.
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Feminism -- Literary collections.
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Feminism -- United States -- Literary collections.
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Minority women -- Literary collections.
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Minority women -- United States -- Literary collections.
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Women -- United States -- Literary collections.
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Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Author |
Anzaldúa, Gloria, editor
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LC no. |
90009428 |
ISBN |
(paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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(paperback) |