Daughters of Latin America : an international anthology of writing by Latine women

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Author:

Guzman, Sandra, editor.

ISBN:

9780063052574

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

xvi, 559 pages ; 24 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Abstract:

"Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume."--Amazon.

Contents:

Introduction: A Literary Ceremony / by Sandra Guzmdn -- A day out of time. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Graceful moon. Cecilia Vicuna ; Aracelis Girmay ; Conceicao Evaristo ; Georgina Herrera ; Marfa Sabina ; Berta Caceres ; Edwidge Danticat ; Rita Laura Segato ; Cherrie Moraga ; Gioconda Belli -- Sagacious moon. Rosa Chavez ; Maryse Conde ; Alba Eiragi Duarte ; Laura Esquivel ; Karla Sanchez and Yasnaya Elena Aguilar Gil ; Julia de Burgos ; Olga Orozco ; Gabriela Mistral ; Bericha ; Claribel Alegria -- Cosmic moon. Marigloria Palma ; Quiara Alegria Hudes ; Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro ; Julia Wong Kcomt ; Carla Bessa ; Cristina Rivera Garza ; Adriana Gallardo ; Caridad de la Luz ; Karla Cornejo Villavicencio ; Sandra Cisneros -- Exalted moon. Sonia Guifiansaca ; Jamaica Kincaid ; Karla Suarez ; Ana Becciu ; Helena Maria Viramontes ; Susana Reyes ; Elena Poniatowska ; Lindantonella Solano Mendoza ; Ana Castillo ; Yesika Salgado -- Ancestral moon. Elizabeth Acevedo ; Daina Chaviano ; Nadia Lopez Garcia ; Mayra Santos-Febres ; Von Diaz ; Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa ; Nastassia Rambarran ; Ana Maria Shua ; Yvette Modestin (Lepolata Apoukissi) ; Carmen Boullosa -- Aqueous moon. Mikeas Sanchez ; Catalina Infante Beovic ; Claudia Mera ; Angie Cruz ; Stephanie Elizondo Griest ; Natalia Toledo ; Mary Seacole ; Alfonsina Storni ; Sara Gallardo ; Diannely Antigua ; Naima Coster ; Julia Alvarez -- Ethereal moon. Nicole Cecilia Delgado ; Virginia Bolten ; Dolores Veintimilla ; Luisa Capetillo ; Alejandra Pizarnik ; Jumko Ogata-Aguilar ; Aida Cartagena Portalatin ; Lolita Lebron ; Ale Motta ; Pepita Granados ; Nancy Morejon -- Luminous moon. Victoria Margarita Colaj Curruchiche ; Dona Felipa Pica ; Norma Elia Cantu ; Marie Arana ; Carolina De Robertis ; Juana Borrero Carolina ; Maria de Jesus ; Lola Rodriguez de Tio ; Ivelisse Rodriguez ; Luisa Valenzuela ; Idea Vilarino ; Danielle Legros Georges -- Shamanic moon. Daniela Catrileo ; Vicenta Maria Siosi Pino ; Adela Zamudio ; Josefina Lopez ; Grisel Y. Acosta ; Estella Gonzalez ; Maria Elena Cruz Varela ; Celeste Mohammed ; Teresa de la Parra ; Mary Grueso Romero -- Sinuous moon. Amada Libertad ; Giannina Braschi ; Virginia Brindis de Salas ; Natalia Trigo ; Maria Hinojosa ; Delmira Agustini ; Laura Restrepo ; Nicholasa Mohr ; Jovita Idar ; Ada Limon ; Sylvia Rivera -- Liminal moon. Irma Pineda ; Reyna Grande ; Ana Paula Lisboa ; Nelly Rosario ; Albalucia Angel ; Helena Uran Bidegain ; Salome Urena ; Miluska Benavides ; Anjanette Delgado ; Lila Downs ; Claudia Salazar Jimenez -- Magnetic moon. Elsa Cross ; Denise Phe-Funchal ; Reina Maria Rodriguez ; Yasmin Hernandez ; Maria Clara Sharupi Jua ; Elisabet Velasquez ; Anais Nin ; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ; Angela Morales ; Achy Obejas -- Supreme moon. Esmeralda Santiago ; Natalia Garcia Freire ; Excilia Saldana ; Ingrid Rojas Contreras ; Hebe Uhart ; Aura Estrada ; Brigitte Zacarias Watson ; Ruth Behar ; Audre Lorde ; Tilsa Otta.

Subject Term:

Latin American literature -- Women authors.

Latin American literature -- African influences.

Black people -- Latin America -- Ethnic identity.

Women and literature -- Latin America.

Added Author:

Guzman, Sandra,

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Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume.

Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity of these visionary writers, leaders, scholars, and activists--including 24 Indigenous voices. Several authors featured are translated into English for the first time. Grammy, National Book Award, Cervantes, and Pulitzer Prize winners as well as a Nobel Laureate and the next generation of literary voices are among the stars of this essential collection, women whose work inspires and transforms us.

An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is divided into 13 parts representing the 13 Mayan Moons, each cycle honoring a different theme. Within its pages are poems from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and celebrated Cervantes Prize-winner Dulce María Loynaz; lyric essays from New York Times bestselling author Naima Coster, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Guggenheim Fellow Maryse Condé; rousing speeches from U.S. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Lencan Indigenous land and water protector Berta Caceres; and a transcendent Mazatec chant from shaman and poet María Sabina testifying to the power of language as a cure, which opens the book.

More than a collection of writings, Daughters of Latin America is a resurrection of ancestral literary inheritance as well as a celebration of the rising voices encouraged and nurtured by those who came before them.

In addition to those mentioned above, contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo, Julia Alvarez, Albalucia Angel, Marie Arana, Ruth Behar, Gioconda Belli, Miluska Benavides, Carmen Bouollosa, Giannina Braschi, Norma Cantú, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Angie Cruz, Edwidge Danticat, Julia de Burgos, Lila Downs, Laura Esquivel, Conceição Evaristo, Mayra Santos Febres, Sara Gallardo, Cristina Rivera Garza, Reyna Grande, Sonia Guiñasaca, Georgina Herrera, María Hinojosa, Claudia Salazar Jimenez, Jamaica Kincaid, María Clara Sharupi Jua, Amada Libertad, Josefina López, Gabriela Mistral, Celeste Mohammed, Cherrié Moraga, Angela Morales, Nancy Morejón, Anaïs Nin, Achy Obejas, Alejandra Pizarnik, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Elena Poniatowska, Laura Restrepo, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Mikeas Sánchez, Esmeralda Santiago, Rita Laura Segato, Ana María Shua, Natalia Toledo, Julia Wong, Elisabet Velasquez, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Helena María Viramontes, and many more.

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

A significant collection of Latine women voices across five centuries. Inspired to "disrupt erasure and myths," Guzmán, who comes from an Indigenous Caribbean clan, hopes these selections from 34 nations--translated from 21 languages, including 17 "native mother tongues of the Americas"--will establish "a new literary canon." The work is divided into 13 sections, representing the 13 moons of the year. Thirteen, notes Guzmán, "is considered a sacred and holy number, and another word for 'god' in the Maya tradition." In addition to Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, poets laureate, a Nobel laureate, and international bestselling authors, Guzmán highlights many lesser-known names, such as the late Honduran water protector Berta Cáceres, of Lenca Indigenous descent, the winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize. In an excerpt from her acceptance speech, she urges her listeners, "Let us wake up! Let us wake up, humankind! We're out of time. We must shake our conscience free of the rapacious capitalism, racism, and patriarchy that will only assure our self-destruction. Our Mother Earth, militarized, fenced in, poisoned, a place where basic rights are systematically violated, demands that we take action." Some of the more famous names include Jamaica Kincaid, Giaconda Belli, Edwidge Danticat, Laura Esquivel, Audre Lorde, Sandra Cisneros, Anaís Nin (daughter of Cuban parents), Ada Limón, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Guzmán also includes the voices of trans and nonbinary writers. This post-colonial, inclusive compendium will be an excellent literary source for libraries and schools. Guzmán succeeds in her presentation of "a luminous universe of texts that navigate across time and space, genre, styles, and traditions," and the book does indeed contain "the wisdom, memory, and DNA, or oral traditions more ancient than time itself." Other contributors include Cristina Rivera Garza, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Julia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, and Irma Pineda. A fresh, indispensable look at the wide, multicultural world of Latine women writers. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

Storyteller and filmmaker Guzmán has created a thrilling international collection of women's literature spanning five centuries and diverse genres. Proud to publish the first anthology using the gender inclusive term Latine, she focuses on rescuing historically overlooked artists, especially those of African and Indigenous descent, and including queer and nonbinary people. From venerated writers like Sandra Cisneros to contemporary young women making slam poetry and chapbooks, the poems and prose works are presented in a way that honors their original creation, whether in English or in translation from Spanish or such Indigenous languages as Zapotec, with each translator acknowledged. Organized thematically around 13 moons, including the Ancient, the Cosmic, the Sagacious, and the Shamanic, this gathering invites both casual enjoyment and careful study. The Ethereal Moon, for example, includes Puerto Rican journalist and labor leader Luisa Capetillo (1879--1927), well-known Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, and African-J apanese-Mexican writer Jumko Ogata-Aguilar. Bubbling up from each woman's brief bio and contribution is a breadth and depth of connection through time and space transcending racial, national, and cultural borders. The result is a breathtaking achievement of scholarship and sisterhood that will be treasured in and enrich all collections.

Introduction: A Literary Ceremony	1
A Day Out of Time	19
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	21
Graceful Moon	23
Cecilia Vicuña	25
Aracelis Girmay	27
Conceição Evaristo	31
Georgina Herrera	34
María Sabina	37
Berta Cáceres	42
Edwidge Danticat	44
Rita Laura Segato	47
Cherríe Moraga	53
Gioconda Belli	55
Sagacious Moon	57
Rosa Chávez	59
Maryse Condé	65
Alba Eiragi Duarte	67
Laura Esquivel	70
Karla Sánchez and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil	75
Julia de Burgos	84
Olga Orozco	87
Gabriela Mistral	89
Berichá	92
Claribel Alegría	100
Cosmic Moon	105
Marigloria Palma	107
Quiara Alegría Hudes	110
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro	113
Julia Wong Kcomt	122
Carla Bessa	124
Cristina Rivera Garza	128
Adriana Gallardo	131
Caridad de la Luz	138
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio	141
Sandra Cisneros	143
Exalted Moon	145
Sonia Guiñansaca	147
Jamaica Kincaid	150
Karla Suárez	152
Ana Becciú	156
Helena María Viramontes	159
Susana Reyes	163
Elena Poniatowska	165
Lindantonella Solano Mendoza	172
Ana Castillo	174
Yesika Salgado	175
Ancestral Moon	179
Elizabeth Acevedo	181
Daína Chaviano	185
Nadia López García	189
Mayra Santos-Febres	194
Von Díaz	198
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa	202
Nastassia Rambarran	206
Ana María Shua	208
Yvette Modestin (Lepolata Apoukissi)	210
Carmen Boullosa	212
Aqueous Moon	215
Mikeas Sánchez	217
Catalina Infante Beovic	220
Claudia Mera	223
Angie Cruz	225
Stephanie Elizondo Griest	228
Natalia Toledo	231
Mary Seacole	236
Alfonsina Storni	239
Sara Gallardo	240
Diannely Antigua	242
Naima Coster	243
Julia Alvarez	252
Ethereal Moon	257
Nicole Cecilia Delgado	259
Virginia Bolten	263
Dolores Veintimilla	264
Luisa Capetillo	267
Alejandra Pizarnik	269
Jumko Ogata-Aguilar	272
Aída Cartagena Portalatín	277
Lolita Lebrón	279
Alê Motta	281
Pepita Granados	283
Nancy Morejón	285
Luminous Moon	289
Victoria Margarita Colaj Curruchiche	291
Doña Felipa Pica	295
Norma Elia Cantú	296
Marie Arana	300
Carolina De Robertis	304
Juana Borrero	308
Carolina María de Jesús	310
Lola Rodríguez de Tió	314
Ivelisse Rodríguez	317
Luisa Valenzuela	319
Idea Vilariño	322
Danielle Legros Georges	324
Shamanic Moon	327
Daniela Catrileo	329
Vicenta María Siosi Pino	331
Adela Zamudio	334
Josefina López	336
Grisel Y. Acosta	340
Estella González	344
María Elena Cruz Varela	354
Celeste Mohammed	357
Teresa de la Parra	373
Mary Grueso Romero	375
Sinuous Moon	337
Amada Libertad	379
Giannina Braschi	382
Virginia Brindis de Salas	385
Natalia Trigo	386
María Hinojosa	390
Delmira Agustini	399
Laura Restrepo	401
Nicholasa Mohr	406
Jovita Idár	409
Ada Limón	410
Sylvia Rivera	413
Liminal Moon	415
Irma Pineda	417
Reyna Grande	420
Ana Paula Lisboa	424
Nelly Rosario	427
Albalucía Ángel	431
Helena Urán Bidegain	433
Salomé Ureña	437
Miluska Benavides	440
Anjanette Delgado	444
Lila Downs	447
Claudia Salazar Jiménez	449
Magnetic Moon	451
Elsa Cross	453
Denise Phé-Funchal	455
Reina María Rodríguez	459
Yasmin Hernández	463
María Clara Sharupi Jua	469
Elisabet Velasquez	475
Anaïs Nin	477
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	480
Angela Morales	484
Achy Obejas	493
Supreme Moon	495
Esmeralda Santiago	497
Natalia García Freire	499
Excilia Saldaña	502
Ingrid Rojas Contreras	504
Hebe Uhart	508
Aura Estrada	514
Brigitte Zacarías Watson	526
Ruth Behar	528
Audre Lorde	531
Tilsa Otta	533
Credits	535
Acknowledgments	543
Index	547

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