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Josefina Niggli's ghost haunts the fields of Mexican American and Chicanalo Studies, which have been uncomfortable with her exclusion but hesitant to embrace her fully. - from the introduction Padilla and Orchard have completed the formidable task of revitalizing the archive of Mexican American author Josefina Niggli, a writer whose production defies easy categorization but whose time has arrived thanks to the vicissitudes of cultural styles and newer rehearsals in Chicano-Latino literary history. - Roberto Tejada, University of California, San Diego.

"Josefina Niggli's ghost haunts the fields of Mexican American and Chicanalo Studies, which have been uncomfortable with her exclusion but hesitant to embrace her fully. - from the introduction """"Padilla and Orchard have completed the formidable task of revitalizing the archive of Mexican American author Josefina Niggli, a writer whose production defies easy categorization but whose time has arrived thanks to the vicissitudes of cultural styles and newer rehearsals in Chicano-Latino literary history."""" - Roberto Tejada, University of California, San Diego."

Josefina Niggli's ghost haunts the fields of Mexican American and Chicanalo Studies, which have been uncomfortable with her exclusion but hesitant to embrace her fully. - from the introduction Padilla and Orchard have completed the formidable task of revitalizing the archive of Mexican American author Josefina Niggli, a writer whose production defies easy categorization but whose time has arrived thanks to the vicissitudes of cultural styles and newer rehearsals in Chicano-Latino literary history. - Roberto Tejada, University of California, San Diego.

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Josefina Niggli was a playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. She was associated with the San Antonio Little Theater, the Carolina Playmakers, and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. As a screenwriter, she worked for Twentieth Century Fox and MGM, where she adapted her novel Mexican Village for the screen. Niggli was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina and at Western Carolina University. William Orchard is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and was a Cesar Chavez Fellow at Dartmouth College. Yolanda Padilla is assistant professor in the Department of English and in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

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