Telling to Live : Latina Feminist Testimonios Hardback

by Latina Feminist Group

Edited by Luz del Alba Acevedo, Norma Alarcon, Celia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, Rina Benmayor, Norma E. Cantu, Gloria Holguin Cuadraz, Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Liza Fiol-Matta

Part of the Latin America Otherwise series

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Description

Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground.

Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds.

Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimoniosâ€”or life storiesâ€”whether as poets, oral historians, literary scholars, ethnographers, or psychologists.

Through coalitional politics, these women have forged feminist political stances about generating knowledge through experience.

Reclaiming testimonio as a tool for understanding the complexities of Latina identity, they compare how each made the journey to become credentialed creative thinkers and writers.

Telling to Live unleashes the clarifying power of sharing these stories. The complex and rich tapestry of narratives that comprises this book introduces us to an intergenerational group of Latina women who negotiate their place in U.S. society at the cusp of the twenty-first century. These are the stories of women who struggled to reach the echelons of higher education, often against great odds, and constructed relationships of sustenance and creativity along the way.

The stories, poetry, memoirs, and reflections of this diverse group of Puerto Rican, Chicana, Native American, Mexican, Cuban, Dominican, Sephardic, mixed-heritage, and Central American women provide new perspectives on feminist theorizing, perspectives located in the borderlands of Latino cultures. This often heart wrenching, sometimes playful, yet always insightful collection will interest those who wish to understand the challenges U.S. society poses for women of complex cultural heritages who strive to carve out their own spaces in the ivory tower.Contributors.

Luz del Alba Acevedo, Norma AlarcÃ³n, Celia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, Rina Benmayor, Norma E.

CantÃº, Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Gloria HolguÃn CuÃ¡draz, Liza Fiol-Matta, Yvette Flores-Ortiz, InÃ©s HernÃ¡ndez-Avila, Aurora Levins Morales, Clara Lomas, Iris Ofelia LÃ³pez, Mirtha N.

Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, Caridad Souza, Patricia Zavella