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. . . a revealing and beautiful compendium of plays, essays and poems that offers readers an intriguingly fractured reflection on the creative life of a Chicana writer. Grounded in Acosta's personal experience as a child and young woman, and engaging issues of memory, healing, and identity through deeply poetic writing and evocative staging, they represent a vital contribution to Chicana feminist thought and especially to the history of Chicanx/Latinx playwriting. In her essays, Acosta turns our attention to a less proximal--but no less meaningful--history to chart a Tejana intellectual genealogy that has been a source of homegrown inspiration for Chicana writers in Tejas and across the Southwest. Lovely and quiet, Acosta's poems offer paradoxically sensuous reflections on spirituality, time, and mortality. --Maria Eugenia Cotera, author of Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture--Maria Eugenia Cotera Tejanaland is an important work that weaves together riveting poetic aesthetic, profound historical insights, and literary brilliance in centering women as agents in the making of a Tejanx cultural, political, and historical legacy. Teresa Poloma Acosta's compelling storytelling and gripping reflections on gender, race, ethnicity, and spirituality told through remembrances and reflections on love, loss, resilience, and resistance place her alongside her 'literary abuelas' as a seminal Tejana writer and chronicler of the borderlands. --Brenda Sendejo, contributor to Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era--Brenda Sendejo Beautifully sculpted as a testament to women's experiences, Tejanaland is a profound journey through the love, loss and lives of generations of Tejanas. It is a must read. --Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities and History at Texas A&M University-Commerce and Handbook of Texas Women Founding Project Director--Jessica Brannon-Wranosky

""". . . a revealing and beautiful compendium of plays, essays and poems that offers readers an intriguingly fractured reflection on the creative life of a Chicana writer. Grounded in Acosta's personal experience as a child and young woman, and engaging issues of memory, healing, and identity through deeply poetic writing and evocative staging, they represent a vital contribution to Chicana feminist thought and especially to the history of Chicanx/Latinx playwriting. In her essays, Acosta turns our attention to a less proximal--but no less meaningful--history to chart a Tejana intellectual genealogy that has been a source of homegrown inspiration for Chicana writers in Tejas and across the Southwest. Lovely and quiet, Acosta's poems offer paradoxically sensuous reflections on spirituality, time, and mortality.""--María Eugenia Cotera, author of Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture--María Eugenia Cotera ""Tejanaland is an important work that weaves together riveting poetic aesthetic, profound historical insights, and literary brilliance in centering women as agents in the making of a Tejanx cultural, political, and historical legacy. Teresa Poloma Acosta's compelling storytelling and gripping reflections on gender, race, ethnicity, and spirituality told through remembrances and reflections on love, loss, resilience, and resistance place her alongside her 'literary abuelas' as a seminal Tejana writer and chronicler of the borderlands.""--Brenda Sendejo, contributor to Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era--Brenda Sendejo ""Beautifully sculpted as a testament to women's experiences, Tejanaland is a profound journey through the love, loss and lives of generations of Tejanas. It is a must read.""--Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities and History at Texas A&M University-Commerce and Handbook of Texas Women Founding Project Director--Jessica Brannon-Wranosky"

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TERESA PALOMO ACOSTA is cofounder and former vice president of the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Texas Women's History. She is the author of many works of fiction and poetry and is coauthor of Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History. She lives in Austin.

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