Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826319726 ISBN 13: 9780826319722

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2000

Synopsis

Embracing Chicana, Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers and writers descended from a combined U.S. and Latin American heritage, Latina literature is one of the fastest growing and most exciting fields in fiction. This literature is characterized by revisionist views of recent history, a concern with exile and borders, a blending of genres, and a complex understanding of the term feminist.

In these ten interviews, Kevane and Heredia give writers the opportunity to talk about how they began to write, the craft of writing, the conjunction of life, art and politics, literary influences, and their goals as artists. Readers will meet Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Helena María Viramontes. The writers' personal and literary journeys vividly portrayed in these interviews will enrich and enhance the readers' understanding of this exciting field. The volume also includes bibliographies of the writers' work.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Through frank and revealing interviews, takes a historical and literary approach to ten important contemporary Latina writers.

About the Author:

Bridget Kevane teaches literature at Montana State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0826319726
• ISBN 13: 9780826319722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Kevane Bridget, Heredia Juanita