Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art

Mexican And Mexican American Women Have Written About Texas And Their Lives In The State Since Colonial Times. Edited By Fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila And Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe Y Malinche Gathers, For The First Time, A Representative Body Of Work About The Lives And Experiences Of Women Who Identify As Tejanas In Both The Literary And Visual Arts. The Writings Of More Than Fifty Authors And The Artwork Of Eight Artists Manifest The Nuanced Complexity Of What It Means To Be Tejana And How This Identity Offers Alternative Perspectives To Contemporary Notions Of Chicana Identity, Community, And Culture. Considering Texas-mexican Women And Their Identity Formations, Subjectivities, And Location On The Longest Border Between Mexico And Any Of The Southwestern States Acknowledges The Profound Influence That Land And History Have On A People And A Community, And How Tejana Creative Traditions Have Been Shaped By Historical, Geographical, Cultural, Linguistic, Social, And Political Forces. This Representation Of Tejana Arts And Letters Brings Together The Work Of Rising Stars Along With Well-known Figures Such As Writers Gloria Anzaldúa, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Carmen Tafolla, And Pat Mora, And Artists Such As Carmen Lomas Garza, Kathy Vargas, Santa Barraza, And More. The Collection Attests To The Rooted Presence Of The Original Indigenous Peoples Of The Land Now Known As Tejas, As Well As A Strong Chicana/mexicana Feminism That Has Its Precursors In Tejana History Itself--publisher's Website. Introduction: Women Of The Texas-mexican Earth / By Ines Hernandez-avila -- I. Enterrando Ombligos/burying The Umbilical Cord: Tejanas In A Texas Land. Ines Hernandez-avila / Introduction -- Gloria Anzaldua / Border Arte: Nepantla, El Lugar De La Frontera -- Alicia Gaspar De Alba / To Your Shadow Beast: In Memoriam -- Margo Tamez / The Equation Of A Circle -- Susan M. Guerra / Holiday -- Juanita A. Luna Lawhn / Man Without A Pen -- Oralia Garza De Cortes / Hija Del Mesquite -- Ines Hernandez-avila / That's Tejana -- Maria Limon / Santiago -- Raquel Valle-senties / Growing Up In Laredo Evangelina Vigil / Harbor -- Norma Elia Cantu / South Texas In July, 2014 -- Deborah Paredez / Alzheimer's Aubade -- Enedina Casarez Vasquez / ¿y Que Nos Paso, Ama? -- Gloria Amescua / Fall Into The Fig -- Susana Renteria Almanza / Reflections Of La Madre Tierra -- Maria Silva / Chicana -- Celeste Guzman Mendoza / Repair -- Teresa Palomo Acosta / My Mother's Thimble -- Laura M. Lopez / Growing Up A Texas-mexican Woman -- Anel Flores / Sinverguenza On The Banks Of The Water -- Emmy Perez / El Paso~el Valle -- Raquel Valle-senties / River Of Lost Dreams -- Patrisia Gonzales / The Pyramid I Call Home -- Rosemary Catacalos / Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas -- Paulita Huerta Garza / Amorosamente Les Saludo -- Pat Mora / A River Of Women. Ii. Dolores Profundos Y La Gracia De La Vida/deep Hurts And The Grace Of Life. Ines Hernandez-avila / Introduction -- Emma Perez / Between Manifest Destiny And Women's Rights: Decolonizing Chicana History -- Yolanda Chavez Leyva / If A Woman Stands At The Door You Can't Go In: Jovita's Story, April 1914 -- Beva Sanchez-padilla / The Ballad Of Emma Tenayuca -- Norma Elia Cantu / Para Manuela Solis Sager -- Mary Guerrero Milligan / La Mentira, Or How I Got Through Texas History -- Teresa Palomo Acosta / Casas Grandes -- Aurora Orozco / No Me Quites Mi Espanol (and Translation) Idioma (and Translation) -- Laura Parra Codina / My Mother Used To Read To Me -- Maria Herrera-sobek / Summertime Blues -- Josephine Casarez / Brown Trenzas Are For Mensas -- D. Letticia Galindo / Memories Of West Texas -- Domino Renee Perez / Anticipating A New Life -- Maria Herrera-sobek / The Immigrant's Lament -- Gloria Amescua / Not The Last Pretender -- Laura Parra Codina / Aqui En San Anto/here In San Anto (author's Translation) -- Carmen Tafolla / Something Severed -- Beatriz De La Garza / Amber Waves Of Grain -- Rosie Castro / San Antonio Sin Marias -- Tammy Melody Gomez / It Is Possible -- Mary Margaret Navar / El Conquistador -- Angela Valenzuela / The Power Of Difference -- Edith Villalobos Silvas / I Wanted Mexican But I Got H.e.b. Instead -- Mary Sue Galindo / La Elliott (1935-1970) -- Rosie Castro / Brown Mother Full Of Stars -- Mia K. Stageberg / Daughters Of Burning Sun. Iii. Arte Y Semblanza: Tejana Artivists. Norma Elia Cantu / Introduction -- Santa Barraza ; Nora Chapa Mendoza ; Celeste De Luna ; Carmen Lomas Garza ; Veronica Ortegon ' Maria Teresa Garcia Pedroche ; Kathy Vargas ; Terry Ybanez -- Conclusion. Iv. All Our Relations: Our Connections To Land, Family, Friends. Norma Elia Cantu / Introduction -- Sonia Saldivar-hull / (re)forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias -- Olivia Castellano / Tia -- Ire'ne Lara Silva / En Trozos = In Pieces -- Ines Hernandez-avila / Skyway Dreams -- Sylvia Herrera / Abreme La Puerta -- Emmy Perez / We, The Obsessed -- Maria Herrera-sobek / Amorcito Corazon -- Liliana Valenzuela / A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes On The Geography Of Shame -- Aida Hurtado / She/woman/man -- B. J. Manriquez Segura / An Understanding -- Edith Villalobos Silvas / No More Trenzas -- Rosie Castro / Role Model -- Enedina Casarez Vasquez / Bad Hair Day -- Evangelina Vigil / Nocturne: Cuando El Destino -- Dorotea Reyna / Moustache -- Deborah Paredez At The Va Telemetry Ward -- D. Letticia Galindo / Longing For Tejas Blues -- Juanita Luna Lawhn / My Mother's Cuartito -- Celeste Guzman Mendoza / Dinner With Dad -- Aida Hurtado / Mothering I -- Rose Trevino / Suenos Argentinos = Argentine Dreams (author's Translation) -- Tammy Melody Gómez / Woman And Pain -- Maria Eugenia Guerra / The Garden -- Teresa Palomo Acosta / Forgiving Stephen F. Austin And The Old Three Hundred -- Paulita Huerta Garza / Viva La Libertad: Mensaje A Las Mujeres = Long Live Liberty: A Message To Women (translation By Norma E. Cantu) -- Pat Mora / Let Us Hold Hands Norma Elia Cantu / Tierra Incognita -- Rosa-linda Fregoso / Ghosts Of A Mexican Past (excerpt) Alicia Gaspar De Alba / Asking For Pears: A Limpia Not Just A Love Poem V. (auto)compromisos Y Comunidad: Gifts Of Powerful, Conscious Loving. Ines Hernandez-avila / Introduction -- Margo Tamez / La Dormilona Dreamt Of Home From The Shore Of Erie -- Liliana Valenzuela / Hoy Detengo El Curso De Los Rios = Today I Stop The River In Its Tracks (translation By Fred Fornoff) -- Mary Sue Galindo / Ya Lo Veras -- Rosie Castro / Chicanas Never Feared -- Maria Silva / Con Todo Respeto Para La Raza Mas Apreciada, Los Chicanos (and Translation) -- Tammy Melody Gomez / In Finite F Light -- Aida Hurtado / Body I -- D. Letticia Galindo / Tejana Tongues = Lenguas Tejanas -- Norma Elia Cantu / Canto A La Tierra Dorotea Reyna / Reina De Copas -- Mary Sue Galindo / In Memory Of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita Perez Mejia 08/25/03-03/11/93 -- Pat Mora / Ofrenda For Lobo: November 2, 1993 -- Barbara Renaud Gonzalez / Feliz Navidad, Daddy -- Evangelina Vigil / One Dream Of So Many -- Laura Parra Codina / Soplame La Vida Mary Margaret Navar / Plegaria Milenaria = Millennial Prayer (translation) -- Ire'ne Lara Silva / One-sided Conversations With My Mother -- Sylvia Ledesma / Luchando Por Libertad = Struggling For Freedom -- Rosemary Catacalos / Picture Postcard From A Painter -- B. J. Manriquez Segura / An Omen -- Raquel Valle-sentíes / Cuando Tu Me Besas = When You Kiss Me (poet's Translation) -- Susan Guerra = My Woman And Her Bird -- Paulita Huerta Garza / Trozos De Amor A La Vida = Pieces Of Love To Life -- Teresa Palomo Acosta / Because Faith Has Called Me Out -- Evangelina Vigil / El Silencio -- Carmen Tafolla / Healing A Culture, Ad 2000 -- Epilogue: !adelante Y Con Ganas! / By Norma Elia Cantu. Inés Hernández-Ávila And Norma Elia Cantú. Includes Bibliographical References.