
Word Images
New Perspectives on Canicula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantu
Gabriella Gutierrez Y. Muhs(Author)
University of Arizona Press
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8165-3409-8 (ISBN)
Description
World-renowned scholar, writer, and American intellectual Norma Elia Cantu's autobiographical book Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera has achieved tremendous success. Winner of the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize, it is used in high school and college classrooms across the nation, thanks to its depictions of immigration and growing up along the Texas-Mexico border. Cantu reconstructs for her readers an intimate portrait of a young girl's experience via family photographs and strong narrative writing.Word Images: New Perspectives on Canicula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantu is a collection of critical essays that for the first time unveil Cantu's contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantu's work: Part I comprises essays that individually examine Cantu's oeuvre through critical analysis. Part II is dedicated to ideas and techniques to improve the use of this literature by teachers and professors, with a particular focus on tools for using Canicula.
Cantu herself has prepared the terrain for this collection, thanks to the hundreds of readings she has delivered at universities, community centers, libraries, and schools. The contributors to this collection seek to enable students and instructors alike to embark on life-changing world-vision paradigms that embrace Cantu's technique of intellectually challenging her audiences while introducing the dissonance that exists between memory, photography, and storytelling.
Contributors: Steven W. Bender, Aurora Chang, Michael Cucher, Vanessa Fonseca, Maria Herrera Sobek, Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Ellen McCracken, Maria Esther Quintana Millamoto, Aldo Ulisses Resendiz Ramirez, Rose Rodriguez-Rabin, Jesus Rosales, Carlos Sibaja-Garcia, Maria Socorro Tabuenca, Juan Velasco.
Cantu herself has prepared the terrain for this collection, thanks to the hundreds of readings she has delivered at universities, community centers, libraries, and schools. The contributors to this collection seek to enable students and instructors alike to embark on life-changing world-vision paradigms that embrace Cantu's technique of intellectually challenging her audiences while introducing the dissonance that exists between memory, photography, and storytelling.
Contributors: Steven W. Bender, Aurora Chang, Michael Cucher, Vanessa Fonseca, Maria Herrera Sobek, Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Ellen McCracken, Maria Esther Quintana Millamoto, Aldo Ulisses Resendiz Ramirez, Rose Rodriguez-Rabin, Jesus Rosales, Carlos Sibaja-Garcia, Maria Socorro Tabuenca, Juan Velasco.
Reviews / Votes
"A significant contribution to Chicana and Chicano literature."-Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, co-editor of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives"A strong collection that demonstrates the complexity and significance of Cantu's work to the fields of folklore studies, literary criticism, and ethnography."-Cristina Herrera, author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script"This edited volume dedicated to new perspectives on reading and teaching Canicula, then, is not only incredibly important to many academic fields, but it is also a helpful compendium for any reader of Cantu's works." - Bulletin of Spanish Studies
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tucson
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
7 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8165-3409-8 (9780816534098)
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Persons
Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs is a professor of modern languages and women and gender studies at Seattle University, where she is also the director for the Center for the Study of Justice in Society. Gutierrez y Muhs is the author or editor of several books, including Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena Maria Viramontes Critical Reader and first editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia.