| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword : "Look at these lives" / Sonia Saldívar-Hull -- I. Latin American perspectives -- "Had they been heading for the barn all along?" Viramonte's Chicana feminist revision of Steinbeck's migrant family / Barbara Brinson Curiel -- Constructing community through fiction in Helena María Viramontes's Their dogs came with them and Susana Sánchez Bravo's Espacios condenados / Raelene Wyse -- II. The body -- Phantoms and patch quilt people : narrative art and migrant collectivity in Helena María Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- The women in East Los Angeles: gender and the city in Their dogs came with them / Juanita Heredia -- Tapestries of space-time : urban institutional spaces in Helena María Viramontes's short fiction / Margarita T. Barceló -- III. Ethics and aesthetics -- Lovingly : ethics in Viramontes's stories / Juan D. Mah y Busch -- Metaphors to love by : toward a Chicana aesthetics in Their dogs came with them / Mary Pat Brady -- Crowbars, peaches, and sweat : coming to voice through image in Under the feet of Jesus / R. Joyce Z.L. Garay -- Our dogs came with us : Viramontes prays to X̤lotl with Digna Rabia / Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez -- IV. Interviews -- Elevated thinking, metaphor making, aspired imagining : an interview with Helena María Viramontes / interview with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- Faith in the imagination : an interview with Helena Ma̕ra Viramontes / interview with José Antonio Rodríguez |
| Summary |
Helena María Viramontes is a professor, scholar-activist, and renowned author of works of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been anthologized and is read widely in the United States and abroad. For many of her readings and speaking engagements she arrives wearing a rebozo, a shawl worn by Mexican and Chicana women living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Once, when asked about her rebozo, Viramontes explained that the pre-Columbian icon is her "security blanket," which she embraces in order to find comfort. For her readers, her writing functions like a "rebozo de palabras," a shawl woven with words that nurture. As Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs points out in her insightful introduction, not only has Viramontes's work not yet received the broad critical engagement it richly deserves, but there remains a monumental gap in the interpretations of Chicana literature that reach mainstream audiences. Rebozos de Palabras addresses this void by focusing on how the Chicana image has evolved through Viramontes's body of work. With a foreword by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, this collection addresses Viramontes entire oeuvre through newly produced articles by major literary critics and emerging scholars who engage Viramontes's writing from multiple perspectives.--Amazon.com |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Viramontes, Helena María, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Viramontes, Helena María, 1954- |
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Viramontes, Helena María 1954- |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella
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| ISBN |
9780816543397 |
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0816543399 |
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