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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer De LeonPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780803245938ISBN 10: 0803245939 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 March 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Souce Acknowledgments Introduction Jennifer De LeonI. World's ApartGoing the Distance Blanca TorresScrambled Channels Yalitza FerrerasWhiteGirlColorlessAfriPana Gail M. DottinNomadic Ingrid Rojas ContrerasLeaving Miami Chantel AcevedoII. Rooms of Our OwnLas Otras Celeste Guzman MendozaPancakes at 2 a.m. Stephanie Elizondo GriestIndependence Iris GomezStories She Told Us Daisy HerándezWho Goes to College? Cecilia Rodriguez MilanésI'm Living in a Foreign Country Toni Margarita PlummerMy Stalker Loraine M. LópezIII. Inside These Academic WallsRapunzel's Ladder Julia AlvarezDerrumbando Muros along an Academic Path Norma Elia CantúOn Becoming Educated Joy CastroLa Silla Ruth BeharIV. In Tribute, In TimeThe Weight of Paper Beatriz TerrazasTo My Younger Self Erika MartínezAfter Yale Li Yun AlvaradoHow to Leave Hialeah Jennine Capó CrucetOnly Daughter Sandra Cisneros ContributorsReviewsAn extraordinary collection of testimonies. There is plenty of honesty and no pretension in the voices included in Wise Latinas . These essays elicit the gamut of emotions from the reader, from chuckles to gasps to tears. An excellent anthology. --Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa --Rigoberto Gonz lez (09/20/2013) The abundance of high-quality material makes the book hard to put down. -Kirkus Kirkus [Wise Latinas] holds relevance for any young person setting out of their homes for the first time. -Ru Freeman, Huffington Post -- Ru Freeman Huffington Post An extraordinary collection of testimonies. There is plenty of honesty and no pretension in the voices included in Wise Latinas. These essays elicit the gamut of emotions from the reader, from chuckles to gasps to tears. An excellent anthology. -Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa -- Rigoberto Gonzalez On the most fundamental level, Wise Latinas aims to provide models for other Latinas... [It was] a joy to read this book, and a reminder of the footsteps that we all trace. -Marta Caminero-Santangelo, author of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity -- Marta Caminero-Santangelo On the most fundamental level, Wise Latinas aims to provide models for other Latinas. . . . [It was] a joy to read this book, and a reminder of the footsteps that we all trace. --Marta Caminero-Santangelo, author of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity --Marta Caminero-Santangelo (09/20/2013) Author InformationJennifer De Leon is a teacher in the Boston Public Schools district and an instructor at the Grub Street Creative Writing Center. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Fourth Genre, Ms. Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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