{"id":661,"date":"2018-12-31T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:18:07","slug":"lone-star-book-reviews-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lone Star Book Reviews
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WOMEN\u2019S STUDIES<\/span><\/p>\n

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In\u00e9s Hern\u00e1ndez-\u00c1vila and Norma Elia Cant\u00fa, editors<\/span><\/p>\n

Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

978-1-4773-0796-0, Hardcover, 501 pp., 12 color photos, 38 b&w photos<\/p>\n

University of Texas Press<\/p>\n

February 2016<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Natalia Trevi\u00f1o<\/span><\/p>\n

The cover of Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art<\/span><\/a><\/span> greets us with the human heart almost pierced by bladelike leaves. This image, Barraza\u2019s Codex of Corazon Sagrado,<\/span> features a sensuous maguey plant flanked by roses, kicking up toward an anatomically correct human heart, which floats between winglike clouds above the tapestry that forms the Texas landscape. Like the cover painting, this multi-genre collection of Tejana writers and artists sings of the liminal space that Tejana women inhabit in which the relationship between the land and the heart is both painful and sublime, thriving between two major Mexican feminine icons: Guadalupe, the sacred virgin Maria, and Malinche, traitor to Mexico, Cortez\u2019s famous bride and secular \u201cwhore.\u201d<\/p>\n

This text houses a throng of unapologetic literary and political voices which form a complex and diverse love letter dedicated to author Gloria Evangelina Anzald\u00faa,<\/span> a feminist cross-curricular scholar, artist, and writer who said of women from Tejas in her seminal work, Borderlands\/La Frontera:<\/span> \u201cThis is [their] home\/this thin edge of\/ barbwire\u201d(13).\u00a0 In response, editors Norma Cant\u00fa,<\/span> Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University, and In\u00e9z Hern\u00e1ndez-\u00c1vila,<\/span> professor of Native studies at the University of California, Davis, who acknowledge that they did not include every notable Tejana author, offer not \u201ca thin barbwire,\u201d but a wide plain, a welcome home for the Tejana, where she can dance open-armed, her histories\u2019 full skirts twirling.<\/p>\n

Included are Texas poets laureate Rosemary Catacalos<\/span> and Carmen Tafolla,<\/span> who examine the powerful links between earth and the body. Catacalos meditates on the very dirt of Atascosa County, and Tafolla claims bold spiritual victory over cancer. Acclaimed poet and children\u2019s author Pat Mora<\/span> celebrates how women, like rivers, soften the cragged Texan landscape; American Book Award winner Evangelina Vigil <\/span>and many other rock-star scholars in Chicano\/a literature today relay the loving and sometimes brutalized experience of the Tejana-Mexicana. A wide range of new and well-established poet-activists join them, including Cel\u00e9ste Guzman Mendoza,<\/span> who honors the hard-working and formerly abusive father: \u201cDirt-stained knees and elbows . . . \/ his work not complete till the last nail is pounded in\u201d (80).\u00a0 Poets ire\u2019ne lara silva, Tammy Melody G\u00f3mez, Emmy Per\u00e9z, Anel Flores, Liliana Valenzuela,<\/span> and Deborah Paredez<\/span> take us into the Tejana\u2019s inheritance: her loss of health, language, and land; her life facing homophobia; her love of a difficult father; her consumption by fierce mother-love.<\/p>\n

Poet-activists such as Rosie Castro<\/span> and Enedina C\u00e1sarez V\u00e1squez<\/span> echo harmoniously with Cant\u00fa\u2019s, Hern\u00e1ndez-\u00c1vila\u2019s, Hull\u2019s, and Anzaldua\u2019s illuminating and contextualizing essays. In one of the most fitting poems for this collection, Castro examines what is entre<\/span> the sacred and secular: \u201cIf I am your Brown Mother\/ full of stars \/ shouldn\u2019t I \/ understand darkness?\/ . . . .Or should I have already made \/ my assumption?\u201d (204).<\/p>\n

To boot, the book includes a beautifully curated selection of full-color reproductions of paintings and woodcuts that visually disturb and question the role of Tejana women. These reproductions add great heart to the body of this important, living, and essential text.<\/p>\n

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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com WOMEN\u2019S STUDIES In\u00e9s Hern\u00e1ndez-\u00c1vila and Norma Elia Cant\u00fa, editors Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art 978-1-4773-0796-0, Hardcover, 501 pp., 12 color photos, 38 b&w photos University of Texas Press February 2016 Reviewed by Natalia Trevi\u00f1o The cover of Entre Guadalupe y […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}