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World-renowned scholar, writer, and American intellectual Norma Elia Cantú’s autobiographical book Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera has achieved tremendous success. Winner of the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, it is used in high school and college classrooms across the nation, thanks to its depictions of immigration and growing up along the Texas-Mexico border. Cantú reconstructs for her readers an intimate portrait of a young girl’s experience via family photographs and strong narrative writing.Word Images: New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú is a collection of critical essays that for the first time unveil Cantú’s contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantú’s work: Part I comprises essays that individually examine Cantú’s oeuvre through critical analysis. Part II is dedicated to ideas and techniques to improve the use of this literature by teachers and professors, with a particular focus on tools for using Canícula. Cantú herself has prepared the terrain for this collection, thanks to the hundreds of readings she has delivered at universities, community centers, libraries, and schools. The contributors to this collection seek to enable students and instructors alike to embark on life-changing world-vision paradigms that embrace Cantú’s technique of intellectually challenging her audiences while introducing the dissonance that exists between memory, photography, and storytelling. Contributors: Steven W. Bender, Aurora Chang, Michael Cucher, Vanessa Fonseca, Maria Herrera Sobek, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Ellen McCracken, María Esther Quintana Millamoto, Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz Ramírez, Rose Rodríguez-Rabin, Jesús Rosales, Carlos Sibaja-García, María Socorro Tabuenca, Juan Velasco.

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A significant contribution to Chicana and Chicano literature. -Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, co-editor of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives A strong collection that demonstrates the complexity and significance of Cantu's work to the fields of folklore studies, literary criticism, and ethnography. -Cristina Herrera, author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script

A significant contribution to Chicana and Chicano literature. -Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, co-editor of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives A strong collection that demonstrates the complexity and significance of Cantu's work to the fields of folklore studies, literary criticism, and ethnography. -Cristina Herrera, author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script

"“A significant contribution to Chicana and Chicano literature.”—Amelia María de la Luz Montes, co-editor of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives“A strong collection that demonstrates the complexity and significance of Cantú’s work to the fields of folklore studies, literary criticism, and ethnography.”—Cristina Herrera, author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script ""This edited volume dedicated to new perspectives on reading and teaching Canícula, then, is not only incredibly important to many academic fields, but it is also a helpful compendium for any reader of Cantú’s works."" — Bulletin of Spanish Studies"

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Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a professor of modern languages and women and gender studies at Seattle University, where she is also the director for the Center for the Study of Justice in Society. Gutiérrez y Muhs is the author or editor of several books, including Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena María Viramontes Critical Reader and first editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia.

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