Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and
their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow
Tejanas Ines Hernandez-Avila and Norma Elia Cantu, Entre Guadalupe
y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of
work about the lives and experiences of women who identify as
Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts. The writings of more
than fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists manifest the
nuanced complexity of what it means to be Tejana and how this
identity offers alternative perspectives to contemporary notions of
Chicana identity, community, and culture. Considering Texas-Mexican
women and their identity formations, subjectivities, and location
on the longest border between Mexico and any of the southwestern
states acknowledges the profound influence that land and history
have on a people and a community, and how Tejana creative
traditions have been shaped by historical, geographical, cultural,
linguistic, social, and political forces. This representation of
Tejana arts and letters brings together the work of rising stars
along with well-known figures such as writers Gloria Anzaldua, Emma
Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Carmen Tafolla, and Pat Mora, and
artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Kathy Vargas, Santa Barraza,
and more. The collection attests to the rooted presence of the
original indigenous peoples of the land now known as Tejas, as well
as a strong Chicana/Mexicana feminism that has its precursors in
Tejana history itself.
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