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For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and
inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and
fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her
first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and
political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry
and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of
our world--the environmental crisis, COVID-19, ongoing systemic
racism and violence, children in detention camps, and the Trump
presidency--and emerges stronger from exploring these troubling
affairs of today. Drawings by Castillo created over the past five
years are featured throughout the collection and further showcase
her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. My
Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at
the height of her craft.
Ā«Ana Castillo es un tesoro estadounidense. Temeraria, compasiva y
absolutamente brillante: es la escritora que necesitamos mientras
enfrentamos los retos de nuestro mundo cambianteĀ». --Tayari Jones,
autora de Un matrimonio americano Ā«Ana Castillo es una narradora
de primeraĀ». --Julia Ćlvarez, escritora galardonada La leyenda
literaria Ana Castillo explora los secretos ocultos de los hogares
y las mujeres a quienes mĆ”s impactan en esta colecciĆ³n que
cimienta su lugar como una voz destacada de la ficciĆ³n feminista.
Katia, la primera en su tradicional familia mexicoestadounidense en
terminar la secundaria, entra a la edad adulta en una Ć©poca de
cambios turbulentos. En todo el paĆs, los jĆ³venes luchan por los
derechos civiles y de las mujeres, y protestan contra la Guerra de
Vietnam y las brutales dictaduras de AmƩrica del Sur. Como muchos
de su generaciĆ³n, Katia quiere hacer del mundo un lugar mejor y
estĆ” decidida a seguir su propio camino. Mientras considera
mudarse a California para unirse a La Causa --movimiento del
activista mexicoestadounidense CƩsar ChƔvez para mejorar las
condiciones laborales de los trabajadores rurales migrantes--,
Katia recibe un regalo inesperado de su padre: un boleto de aviĆ³n
a la Ciudad de MƩxico. "TrƔete a tu madre, le dice, sus hijos la
necesitan". AsĆ que, Katia se une a su causa para traer a Tina de
regreso a Chicago. Pero no serƔ fƔcil. Katia debe aprender a
sortear una versiĆ³n liberada de su madre en un nuevo paĆs, donde
supuestamente se dedica a la venta ambulante de productos de
limpieza de alta calidad llamados Donna Crean Well. Desde Chicago a
MƩxico y a Nuevo MƩxico, los relatos de DoƱa Cleanwell deja su
hogar iluminan a un grupo de personas cuyas historias nos dejaran
sin aliento. "Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless,
compassionate, and flat-out brilliant--she is the writer we need as
we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world."--Tayari
Jones, author of An American Marriage "Ana Castillo is de primera
storyteller."--award-winning author Julia Alvarez Literary legend
Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households
and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that
cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction. The first
person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from
high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent
change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and
women's rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal
dictatorships in South America. Like so many of her generation,
Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to
follow her own path. As she considers moving to California to join
La Causa, Mexican American activist Cesar Chavez's movement to
improve the working conditions of migrant farmer workers, Katia
receives an unexpected gift from her father: a plane ticket to
Mexico City. Bring back your mother, he says, tell her, her
children need her. And so Katia joins this cause, to get Tina back
to Chicago. But it won't be easy. Katia must learn to navigate a
liberated version of her mother in a new country where she is now
hawking supposedly superior cleaning products, called Donna Clean
Well. Katia is but one of the voices introduced in this dazzling
collection of short fiction from revered writer Ana Castillo.
Spanning from Chicago to Mexico to New Mexico, the stories in DoƱa
Cleanwell Leaves Home illuminate a chorus of people whose stories
will leave you breathless.
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers
Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to
Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual
censorship of being female and indigenous. Castillo replaced the
term "Chicana feminism" with "Xicanisma" to include mestiza women
on both sides of the border. In history, myth, interviews, and
ethnography Castillo revisits her reflections on Chicana activism,
spiritual practices, sexual attitudes, artistic ideology, labor
struggles, and education-related battles. Her book remains a
compelling document, enhanced here with a new afterword that
reexamines the significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Al Ritmo de Petra (Hardcover)
Ana Castillo MuƱoz; Illustrated by Yamel Figueroa Sotomayor
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Loverboys (Paperback)
Ana Castillo
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From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and
The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience
of love in all its myriad configurations. Infectiously moody and
murderously comic, Castillo chronicles the rapturous beginnings,
melancholy middles, and bittersweet endings of modern romance
between men and women, men and men, and women and women.
Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough,
Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most
powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary
career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My
Father Was a Toltec" "is the sassy and street-wise collection of
poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular
canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of
her early poems.
Ana Castillo's poetry speaks--in English and Spanish--to every
reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the uninterrupted joy of
love, and the deep despair of love lost.
An Anchor Books Original
Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays, the author hailed by Julia Alvarez as ?una storyteller de primera,? and by Barbara Kingsolver in The Los Angeles Times as ?impossible to resist,? returns to her first love?poetry?to reveal an unwavering commitment to social justice, and a fervent embrace of the sensual world.
With the poems in I Ask the Impossible, Castillo celebrates the strength that "is a woman?buried deep in [her] heart." Whether memorializing real-life heroines who have risked their lives for humanity, spinning a lighthearted tale for her young son, or penning odes to mortals, gods, goddesses, Castillo?s poems are eloquent and rich with insight. She shares over twelve years of poetic inspiration, from her days as a writer who ?once wrote poems in a basement with no heat," through the tenderness of motherhood and bitterness of loss, to the strength of love itself, which can ?make the impossible a simple act." Radiant with keen perception, wit, and urgency, sometimes erotic, often funny, this inspiring collection sounds the unmistakable voice of a "woman on fire? / and more worthy than stone."
Loverboys is the award-winning author Ana Castillo's stunning collection of twenty-three stories that depict the wildly varied faces of love, from rapturous beginnings to bittersweet endings. From the regret-tinged soulfulness of the title story in which a woman reminisces about a former lover, to the down-and-dirty settling of scores in "Vatolandia" to the high-spirited comedy of "La Miss Rose," about a West Indian fortuneteller on a mission to help the lovelorn, Ana Castillo bares the secret hearts of women and men. By turns hopeful, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Loverboys is an irresistible pairing of author and subject. In prose that is at once erotic and eloquent, streetwise and surreal-in a voice like no other in recent literary fiction-Ana Castillo covers the waterfront of modern romance and proves why she is, in the words of Julia Alvarez, "a first-rate storyteller."
In Sapogonia, edited and revised for its Anchor publication, Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of mixed heritage through the struggles of Máximo Madrigal, an expatriate of Sapogonia, the metaphorical homeleand of all mestizos. Subtly political, it demonstrates how warring blood within a single body resists any peaceful resolution.
From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a
suspenseful, moving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely
independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher's aide in a
small New Mexican border town, Tia Regina is also raising her
teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country
illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo's father, Rafa,
disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst.
After several days of waiting and with an ominous phone call from a
woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo
resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an
amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel's gregarious
abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo's gangbanger classmates; and a
priest of wayward faith. Though their journey is rife with
challenges and danger, it will serve as a remarkable testament to
family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience
Praise for "The Guardians"
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE"
"An always skilled storyteller, [Castillo] grounds her writing in .
. . humor, love, suspense and heartache-that draw the reader
in."
-"Chicago Sunday Sun-Times"
"A rollicking read, with jokes and suspense and joy rides and
hearts breaking . . . This smart, passionate novel deserves a wide
audience."
"-Los Angeles Times"
"What drives the novel is its chorus of characters, all, in their
own way, witnesses and guardian angels. In the end, Castillo's
unmistakable voice-earthy, impassioned, weaving a 'hybrid
vocabulary for a hybrid people'-is the book's greatest
revelation."
"-Time Out New York"
"A wonderful novel . . . Castillo's most important accomplishment
in "The Guardians" is to give a unique literary voice to questions
about what makes up a 'family.' "
"-El Paso Times"
"A moving book that is both intimate and epic in its narrative."
-Oscar Hijuelos, author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love "
The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging
scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana
and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who
center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional
lens. Contributors provide narratives that make feminized labor
visible and that prioritize collective action and holistic healing
for mother-scholars of color, their children, and their communities
within and outside academia. The volume is organized in four parts:
(1) separation, migration, state violence, and detention; (2)
Chicana/Latina/WOC mother-activists; (3) intergenerational
mothering; and (4) loss, reproductive justice, and holistic
pregnancy. Contributors offer a just framework for Chicana and
Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies to thrive
within and outside of the academy. They describe a new
interpretation of motherwork that addresses the layers of care work
needed for collective resistance to structural oppression and
inequality. This anthology is a call to action for justice.
Contributions are both theoretical and epistemological, and they
offer an understanding of motherwork through Chicana and Women of
Color experiences.
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Growing Up Chicago (Paperback)
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Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that
reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area.
Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers who spent their
formative years in the region to ask: What characterizes a Chicago
author? Is it a certain feel to the writer's language? A narrative
sensibility? The mention of certain neighborhoods or locales? While
the authors represented here write from distinct local experiences,
some universals emerge, including the abiding influence of family
and friends and the self-realizations earned against the background
of a place sparkling with promise and riven by inequality, a place
in constant flux. The stories evoke childhood trips to the Art
Institute of Chicago, nighttime games of ringolevio, and the giant
neon Magikist lips that once perched over the expressway, sharing
perspectives that range from a young man who dreams of becoming an
artist to a single mother revisiting her Mexican roots, from a
woman's experience with sexual assault to a child's foray into
white supremacy. This book memorably explores culture, social
identity, and personal growth through the eyes of Chicagoans,
affirming that we each hold the ability to shape the places in
which we live and write and read as much as those places shape us.
2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for Story Teller of the Year
In this updated edition of Ana Castillo's celebrated novel in
verse, featuring a new introduction by Poet Laureate of Texas
Carmen Tafolla, we revisit the story's spirited heroine, known only
as "Ella" or "She," as she takes us through her own epic journey of
self-actualization as an artist and a woman. With a remarkable
combination of tenderness, lyricism, wicked humor, and biting
satire, Castillo dramatizes Ella's struggle through poverty as a
Chicano single mother at the threshold of the twenty-first century,
fighting for upward mobility while trying to raise her son to be
independent and self-sufficient. Urged on by the gods of the
ancients, Ella's life interweaves with those of others whose
existences are often neglected, even denied, by society's status
quo. Castillo's strong rhythmic voice and exploration of such
issues as love, sexual orientation, and cultural identity will
resonate with readers today as much as they did upon the book's
original publication more than ten years ago. This expanded edition
also includes a short preface by the author, as well as a glossary,
a reader's guide, and a list of additional suggested readings.
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