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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez -- Part I. "La Plonqui": Writer and Academic -- 1. Reflections on My Legacy as a Writer and Academic / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- 2. The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face: Margarita and Me / Kirsten F. Nigro -- 3. Interview with Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez -- Part II. Essays -- 4. Breve reflexión sobre la obra de Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs |
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5. The Bittersweet Nostalgia of Childhood in the Poetry of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Tey Diana Rebolledo -- 6. Taboo or Not Taboo: Violence, Abuse, and the Search for Memory and Healing in Margarita Cota-Cárdenas's Santuarios del corazón / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez -- 7. Las Travesuras de la Chicana Macana: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas's Playful Language as a Critique of Machismo in Noches despertando inConciencias / Laura Elena Belmonte -- 8. El mestizaje lingüístico y sus manifestaciones socioculturales en Puppet de Margarita Cota-Cárdenas / Javier Villarreal |
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9. Puppet and Sanctuaries of the Heart: Fictional Testimonios / Carolyn González -- 10. Sowing Seeds of Hope and Liberation: Critical Flower Songs of Renacimiento in Marchitas de mayo / José R. Flores -- 11. Chicanidad, Querencia, and a Voice of Justice: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, ¡Presente! / Margarita E. Pignataro -- 12. Making Peace with Ghosts in Sanctuaries of the Heart / Charles St-Georges -- Part III. Creative Works -- 13. Épica fronteriza mechicana: Por esta piel que llevo / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- 14. La gente de los girasoles / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas |
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15. Margarita's Five (Un)answered Questions / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"La Plonqui is an edited volume centered on the life and literary works of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas. The title references Cota-Cárdenas's childhood nickname, "La Plonky," which comes from a made-up family ditty. A novelist and poet, Cota-Cárdenas earned her PhD at the University of Arizona in 1980, and is professor emerita of Spanish at Arizona State University. She published the bilingual novella, Sanctuaries of the Heart / Santuarios del Corazón, with UA Press in 2005. The critical essays in La Plonqui cover all five major works written by Cota-Cárdenas (two novels and three books of poetry). The manuscript is divided into an Introduction and three major parts. The first part presents the life of Cota-Cárdenas in two testimonial essays written by herself and a longtime colleague. The section also includes an interview with Cota-Cárdenas prepared by the volume editors. The second part contains nine essays that critically analyze Cota-Cárdenas' literary output. The essays are written by well-established literary critics who position her work within a Chicano Movement literary context as well as by contemporary literary critics who offer new readings of Cota-Cárdenas fiction and poetry. The third part presents poetry and fiction from Cota-Cárdenas, including an excerpt from a work in progress. As a whole, the collection aims to affirm Margarita Cota-Cárdenas' significant role in shaping the field of Chicana literature and emphasizes the importance of honoring a celebrated writer, who wrote a majority of her works in Spanish-one of the few Chicana writers to do so"-- Provided by publisher |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English and Spanish |
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Cota-Cárdenas, Margarita -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cota-Cárdenas, Margarita
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Hispanic American women authors -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Hispanic American women authors
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fonseca-Chávez, Vanessa
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| ISBN |
9780816550180 |
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0816550182 |
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