Border Women: Writing from La Frontera

By Debra A. Castillo and María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba

The first study to foreground writing by women who live at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

It is a peculiar fact that U.S.-Mexico border theory is dominated by those who write about, not from, the border. By looking at the work of women writers from both sides of the border, Debra A. Castillo and Mar a-Socorro Tabuenca C rdoba open border studies to a truly transnational analysis while bringing questions of gender to the fore.

Border Women rethinks border theory by emphasizing women writers whose work--in Spanish, English, or a mixture of the two languages--calls into question accepted notions of border identities. These writers include those who are already well recognized internationally (Helena Mar a Viramontes, Sheila and Sandra Ortiz Taylor, and Mar a Novaro); those who have become part of the Chicano canon (Norma Cant , Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Demetria Mart nez); along with some of the lesser-known, yet most exciting, women's voices from the Mexican border (Rosario Sanmiguel, Rosina Conde, and Regina Swain).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639582
• ISBN13: 9780816639588
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"