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Al Ritmo de Petra (Hardcover)
Ana Castillo Muñoz; Illustrated by Yamel Figueroa Sotomayor
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From the American Book Award-winning author of "The Mixquiahuala
Letters" comes the story of a remarkable woman and her four
daughters living in New Mexico--a novel shaped by influences as
diverse as Mexican mythology, Catholicism, and today's headlines.
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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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.
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."
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.
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