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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. There's no story that the Storyteller can't bring you home from. But in the barrio, her hot pink fluorescent Nike Airs are all that she has to barter for your soul. While the Storyteller leaps tall Teflon cactus, stops powerful locomotives with a story thread and burns up the devil incarnate, the people of the barrio stories quietly and courageously triumph over poverty and despair. Kleya Forte-Escamilla gives us worlds of real and magic possibility.InThe Storyteller with Nike Airs and other Barrio Stories, Forte-Escamilla returns to where her strength lies: writing about small towns brimming with realistic depictions of Latinas and Chicanas, abuelitas y tias, hermanitas y tortilleras. She refers to the stories in the acknowledgments as her "memories, the voices I hear in my waking dreams. Voices that are my own voice, but are not my own." From first to last, thirteen echoes of those voices showcase her imaginative versatility, and her remarkable talent for creating indelible word portraits.- Teri de la Pena,Lambda Book ReportThe triumph of spirit over despair is a theme throughout, and in each story Forte-Escamilla has created a wonderful sense of place, whether the setting is desert or city.- The Bay Guardian[Forte-Escamilla's] people.are written with such complexity and fullness of dimension that they become unforgettable.- Tillie Olsen There's no story - no matter how bent - that the Storyteller can't bring you home from. But in the barrio her hot pink fluorescent Nike Airs are all that she has to barter for your soul. While the Storyteller leaps tall teflon cactus, stops powerful locomotives with a story thread and burns up the devil incarnate, the people of the barrio stories quietly - courageously - triumph over poverty and despair. Kleya Forte-Escamilla gives us worlds of real and magic possibility. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This collection showcases three previously unpublished writers of great talent. Rabie Harris writes about an old Jamaican woman, put into a Texas homecare facility by her daughter. The novella keeps astounding pace as the protagonist reports the unfolding drama of her two roommates. Gloria Yamato, in her three stories and long poem, locates those exact moments when African Americans are forced into painful racialized consciousness. DeeAnne Davis uses the streets of Chicago as a setting for four chapters from her forthcoming novel about an unlikely liaison between a young teenage girl and a gay cabbie. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Resisting the onslaught of gringos coming to live in their southwestern border town, Bale and Maggie develop a friendship based on their common struggle. But they differ in their future possibilities: his is closed by poverty and family tragedy; hers is opened by her relationship with her Yaqui Indian grandmother, Adela Sewa. Maggie's grandmother teaches her the ways of the land and her own form of spirituality as tools for survival. Her stories, or cuentos, reach back into the nineteenth century, illuminating a way of life that has disappeared, but which can still provide hope and continuity to a displaced people.Edna Escamill has.wrought a landmark book that will stand beyond its decade. The future gestates in these pages. The present is here in passionate immediacy. It is one of the great books of "place"-poor town, desert, mountain-recreated so vividly, every memory-sense alive. Its people.are written differently with such complexity, fullness of dimension, they become unforgettable.a book absolutely necessary to our growing national vision.- Tillie Olsen Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The end of the Cultural Revolution in China in 1976 marked the beginning of an exciting phase of literary activity as the state loosened its grip on literature and the arts. One of the most significant developments has been the emergence of scores of women writers articulating female experience and re-opening questions of gender in new fiction. Ding Xiaoqi, whose work in English translation is collected here for the first time, ranks as one of the most daring shapers of this new tradition for her treatment of taboo subjects like rape and adultery, and as one of its most sophisticated stylists for her intense renderings of highly subjective states.After nearly four decades of 'revolutionary' literature.the literary scene in the late 1970s and throughout the '80s exploded with new writers taking up new (or long suppressed) themes, experimenting with new forms, and publishing in new magazines. Ding Xiaoqi.ranks as one of the most daring of its shapers for her treatment of taboo subjects.- Cathy Silber, TranslatorTold with remarkable originality from women's perspectives, these stories combine descriptions of the trivialities of daily life with reflections on the ironies and absurdities of contemporary human relationships. Ding Xiaoqi is a most talented and honest writer.- Rey Chow, author ofWoman and Chinese ModernityandWriting DiasporaHer writing opens up the multiple ways in which one may question and challenge how we understand and relate to ourselves in the world of others.I look forward to Ding's forthcoming novel.- Kinesis Review.a highly readable first volume of stories.Chris Berry and Cathy Silber have provided a vibrant translation that makes Ms. Ding's stories all the more enjoyable.- New York Times Book Review Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Singing Softly/Cantando Bajitocenters around the life of Pilar as told by her granddaughter Meli. The young Pilar's liaison with the son of a monied and proud family cuts her off from her own family, leaves her socially adrift, alone, and, finally, affects her relationship with her oldest friend. It is in the act of narration, moving in soft rhythms and slowly revealed stories, that Meli reclaims her relationship withher grandmother and mother. Reaching out with her imagination, she binds together the three generations of women burdened by secrets and frees herself to come back to the Puerto Rico she has fled."This is a novel redolent with the smells of tropical flowers, the taste of mangoes, coconuts and rum, the touch of earth and sea, the sounds of birds, the voices of [Puerto Rican] women.Marta, who gave birth to Pilar, who gave birth to Luisa, who gave birth to Meli, the narrator/listener. Tying the generations together, lifting the narrative to the plane of magic realism, and connecting it for a moment to Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits is Sea Alba.midwife, healer, conscience, guardian and seer-a witch and folk hero.A novel worth reading."-New Directions for Women"A moving and powerful novel that explores how the forces of colonialism, misogyny and racism emerge in the lives of a family affected by this history. The language of the narrative is rich and evocative and the characters are both real and surreal in the intensity of imagination. An important book."-Susan Griffin Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Haggadah means "the telling." The escape from Egypt is the defining legend, the central drama of the Jews. Every nation coalesces around such an epic; its people project themselves into the story, aspire to the virtues of its heroes, and through periodic retelling or dramatization, transmit their values to the next generation. The traditional Haggadah offers a set of instructions for conducting the Passover service, interspersed with readings from the Bible, rabbinical commentaries, legends, prayers, hymns and children's songs. Written by men and addressing men, the traditional text has not historically offered much space for women to see themselves as fully involved in or spoken to by the powerful drama of human freedom articulated by the Haggadah. In Haggadah: A Celebration of Freedom, Martha Shelley brings a new vision to the traditional text. Martha Shelleys feminist Haggadah is a model of clarity infused with poetry and beautiful language. Jewish women who have felt shut out of the traditional ceremony will savor this fresh, exquisitely sensitive interpretation of the Passover seder. Susan Brownmiller A celebration of freedom for all peoples during the season of Passover. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Young Indiana Redpaint, traded by her father for a rodeo entry fee, flees Oklahoma to be raised by her grandparents in North Carolina. A generation later, her daughter Manna, whose life is deeply marked by her mother's losses, runs from her own tragic past and catches up with her destinyguided by a cast of unforgettable characters: Candy, a two-year old baby girl abandoned by her mother Sugar Begay; Silas Pipe, a Vietnam veteran with a glitzy past who has built an oasis in the desert; J.B., his grass-dancing nephew; and Bill Lawton, a widowed carpenter who can chisel life out of wood. Here in Gallup, New Mexico, Manna eventually finds wholeness and healing in unexpected people and places. a sparkling, wildly original and inventive novelHer characters are red, white, black, and brown, but above all they are real. David Citino, author of The Book of Appassionata Pettigrew weaves poetry and prose in an exquisite and powerful story that moves in time and space, bringing past, present, future, and the dream-time together in the best of written Native literary tradition. The Way We Make Sense is a critically important work. Lee Francis, National Director, WordCraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Dawn Karima Pettigrew is a writer undaunted by the big questions that bedevil us. She's the writer you will turn to when, once again, you understand that the heart never fits its wanting. Lee K. Abbott, author of Wet Places At Noon Indian Rodeos, family generations, food stamps, lost loves, and the red earth of Oklahoma are all squares in the quilt sewn by Pettigrew's memorable words. I recommend this book to anyone who has a love for real stories well told. Joseph Bruchac, author of Breaking Silence Fiction. Native American Studies. Rendered in intertwining passages of prose and poetry, this novel begins with the story of Indiana Redpaint, whose father traded her for a rodeo entry fee, and follows the path of her daughter, Manna, whose life has been deeply marked by her mother's losses. Hitch-hiking her way to Gallup, NM, Manna finds wholeness and healing in unexpected people and places. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. My Jewish Face & Other Storieschronicles the coming of age and coming out of a daughter of the Jewish left. Wandering from Brooklyn to Harlem and Berkeley in the sixties, from the intense feminist politics of the seventies to the isolation and regathering of activism in the eighties, Kaye/Kantrowitz's women struggle for lesbian community, for proud Jewish identity and always for justice steeped in compassion. As humanly warm and funny as they are serious, these stories will reach with great hope and energy across generations and across cultures.I like this book a lot. It's full of history, herstories and plain stories-and in beautiful combination and variety-all bringing the truth, the angry adversarial truth, the happy love-finding truth of our women's movement years.-Grace Paley, writer and activistMelanie Kaye/Kantrowitz is a lesbian writer who does not stint in these fictional explorations. Her writing sacrifices neither clarity nor depth. As she recreates the contexts of our lives she gives us back our own voices.-Judith McDaniel, poet, essayist, activistMelanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's stories are urgently, often brutally honest.I came away fromMy Jewish Faceas if from a roomful of vivid and articulate people who have discovered they have nothing left to hide. I value Kaye/Kantrowitz's voice for everything it says that comforts and everything that hurts-this is a sharp, sad, funny document of difficult times and I hope it falls into many, many hungry hands.-Rosellen Brown, novelist and poet Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Feminist movements have made a profound impact on both spiritual and political practices; as a multicultural collection of interviews with women about the complexities of personal and social empowerment, this book connects the two through the voices of activists, healers and artists, poets and politicians. The uniqueness ofVisionary Voiceslies in the diversity of its contributors-including Deena Metzger, Papusa Molina, Fran Peavey, Winona LaDuke and many more-and their collective dismantling of the false dichotomy between spiritual and political growth.I felt inspired hearing women discuss their efforts to create revolution as well as meaningful personal lives.- SojournerAn exceptionally relevant collection, carefully put together and skillfully edited; it belongs in every library collection.- WLW JournalVisionary Voicesis a significant contribution to women's studies and highly recommended for anyone interested in women's spirituality as well.-The Midwest Book ReviewVisionary Voicesis a thought-provoking point-of-view piece.- San Francisco Bay GuardianHow can we not read this insightful contribution to the clearer understanding of our various selves.It makes us richer for the experience.- Gay & Lesbian Times Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Carole Rio, an artist running from her past, is invited to a small Texas border town to paint murals in a church-but the church has burned down in a catastrophic fire. Carole becomes the catalyst for the town's release of its collective guilt, and as the community rebuilds and heals, she faces her own terrifying nightmares and confronts her sexual identity.Send My Roots Rainreveals how memory and land can form potent ties, and how unexpected change has the power to heal and transform lives.An intriguing, compelling story-well told.- Tee CorinneA wonderfully engaging, fast-paced, brilliantly written novel.- Wisconsin BookwatchSend My Roots Rainoffers a promise of ever more creative blooms from this Houston-based writer- Lambda Book Report Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

paperback. Condizione: fine. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 " 221 pages plus author's notes.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In this collection of twelve unforgettable short stories, Lara Stapleton writes from the same precarious emotional plane where her characters live. She writes about people living in a world that forces them to recreate daily their small corner of hope. These are people who don't quite fit; who often seem just a little out of step with their circumstances; who have a past to run from but no clear future to run to; who live in the present with the pure ache of longing. They are complex: defiant and helpless, isolated and exposed, sometimes painfully self-aware, sometimes lagging behind the curve.A gutsy, emotionally astute collection of stories that walks the reader over the hot coals of unnamed desire.- Ginu Kamani, author ofJunglee GirlLara Stapleton takes us to a world in which everyone is intensely human and vulnerable, whether they are roaming the climate-controlled megamalls of Manila or the desolate streets of a Midwest town.With the precision of a microsurgeon, Stapleton dissects the subtle frustrations of the heart, picking out details and tell-tale cracks that make life seem so fragile, and therefore dear. The stories inThe Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothingare an unflinching look into lives of quiet desperation, and an auspicious debut for its young author.-Eric Gamalinda, editor,Flippin': Filipinos on America In the eleven short stories and a novella, Lara Stapleton examines the lives of people struggling to escape defeat - to rise above past humiliations or forestall disasters. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Winner of the Silver Medal in ForeWord Magazine'sAnthology CategoryThis anthology presents the work of over 150 young inner-city poets, reflecting on their experiences with violence and sharing their desires for peace and unity in their families, in their communities and across the globe. Each poet presents a unique perspective and voice; when read together their work becomes a powerful call for peace. Whether in the hands of educators, peace activists, poetry lovers, or other young writers,City of Oneis a compelling portrait of a generation of youth who use their words to re-envision the world.I celebrate this extraordinary book written by young people who believe, as I do, that peace is not only possible, it is unavoidable.- Isabel AllendeIt has been exciting for me to read what these wonderful WritersCorps poets are writing, those who are going to carry poetry into the future.- Tillie OlsenReading the work from WritersCorps renews my conviction in the importance of writing. I am reminded of the value of telling even the simplest stories, describing the simplest things in one's life-the tingle of a favorite food, the familiar panorama of homelife, the chalkboard in the classroom.- Justin ChinBecause these poets are young, because they are newly discovering their own voices, their poems fly up like kites, free of cliches. In a time when human imagination is threatened.to imagine is to work for peace. These brave poems will help us all to find out way to our own imaginings of peace.- Susan MoonCity of One.conveys to the world that peace is the only option to secure our children's future.- U.S. Congresswoman Barbara LeeTo see the future in America-and its promise in all shades and backgrounds and ideologies-readCity of Oneand prepare to be amazed by these truly gifted writers.- ZZ Packer This anthology presents the work of over 150 young inner-city poets, reflecting on their experiences with violence and sharing their desires for peace and unity in their families, in their communities and across the globe. Each poet presents a unique perspective and voice; when read together their work becomes a powerful call for peace. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This collection brings together an unprecedented range of beautifully crafted short stories by women that span a century and a half of African American literary tradition. Editor Asha Kanwar's introduction provides historical background and context for the selection of stories by authors as varied as Alice Dunbar Nelson, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, and Wanda Coleman. The writers included here, both the famous and the less well-known, together represent the remarkable diversity of African American women's writing across class, culture, and time.The Unforgetting Heart: What an appropriate title! What a stunning collection! These unforgettable storiesfrom laundry room to ballroom, from Brooklyn to Barbados, from colored folks to African Americanswill sweep into your life with all the variety, verve, intellect and heart of the women who produced them. Tina McElroy Ansa, author of Baby of the Family and Ugly Ways The Unforgetting Heartwill make you laugh, bring tears to your eyes and touch the very depths of your souls. Most of all, The Unforgetting Heart will capture yours. Johnetta B. Cole, President, Spelman College Often touted as great oral storytellers, African American women have nonetheless been ignored as short story writers. The Unforgetting Heart is a lively historical sampling that will challenge readers, teachers and scholarly views of African American womens contributions to cultural/literary history. Barbara Christian, author of Black Feminist Criticism and Black Women Novelists, Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley This anthology will be a rewarding addition for womens studies collections, as a resource for new discoveries and old favorites. Booklist Asha Kanwar has collected some of the best Black female writers of all time, adding to that voices buried under years of neglect. All of them shimmer with a new radiance, and an immediate intimacya rare jewel. Its time has come indeed. Seattle Gay News Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One hundred years after San Francisco's Great Earthquake of 1906, WritersCorps gathers the powerful voices of San Francisco youth reflecting on solidity, violence, upheaval, and regeneration in their lives and in the world. The poems on these pages are a moving story, eloquent, fragile, courageous, and shattering.Amazing metaphors dance in between the seamless lines and white spaces of these poems, proof once again that young people are natural to poetry, that they are carrying most of the poetry of our time, and that something is amiss when we don't respond poetically as a world, as community, to their dreams, their ideas, their sentiments, and their hopes.Solid Groundis solid work deserving of serious attention.- Luis J. Rodriguez, author ofAlways RunningandMy Nature is HungerThe tectonic upheavals of adolescence, urban living and adult/civic failures have sparked these fierce and tender poems. Each one articulates its own universe; using words as light to help us scramble across the frightful chasms that exist between all of us.- Jewelle Gomez, poetWritersCorps and its bright young poets make San Francisco a city of possibility, where the imagination truly leads us to a more solid future.- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San FranciscoWritersCorps has found some remarkable voices, as pure and beautiful as any you might find in the most acclaimed journals. As we commemorate the centennial of one of the world's great disasters, let us celebrate another phenomenon for which San Francisco is known: it is the birthplace of great writers. As long as marvelous voices like these continue to emerge, there is hope.- James Dalessandro, author of1906andCanary in a Coal Mine Upheaval, violence, chasm and split: Young poets explore the faultlines of contemporary urban life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Untangling knots of personal identity and family history, Nancy Agabian deftly weaves a narrative alternately comical and wrenching. Moving between memories of growing up Armenian and American in Walpole, Massachusetts, and her later experiences at Wellesley College, then Hollywood and, finally, Turkey, Agabian offers an illuminating meditation on the sometimes bizarre entanglement of individual desire (sexual and otherwise) in the web of family life and history. At the heart of this unraveling is a grappling with the history of trauma and upheaval experienced by her paternal grandmother, who survived the Armenian Genocide, and the legacy of that wounding experience for Agabian and her extended family.What's so refreshing about Agabian's prose is her marvelously open, daring, and honest inquiry into the self. Our "enfant terrible"-she has yet again managed to capture us with her quirky, brilliant stories.- Shushan Avagyan, author ofGirk-anvernagir; translator ofI Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik KurghinianMy favorite song from Nancy Agabian's improbably vivid "Guitar Boy" punk rock period a decade ago was the genius anthem "I Don't Want to be a Victim Anymore." Though as she noted at the time, when you're a mousily timid, family-mired, Armenian bisexual artist, not tending toward victimhood isn't all that easy. But you know what? By the end of this splendidly engrossing memory chronicle, she's pulled it off. She's no victim. What she is is funny, smart, generous and wise. And she's my hero.- Lawrence Weschler, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner,Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences Cultural Writing. Biography. Middle Eastern Studies. In this memoir, Nancy Agabian tells stories of growing pains, family tensions, and buried pasts. In a narrative that braids together different times and places and shifts between comic and dramatic registers, Agabian tells us how, as a child, she learns to juggle roles in response to competing pressures to fit in as an American while maintaining her Armenian heritage. At home, she struggles with her grandmother's old ideologies, arguments between her parents, and heated discussions about race and sexuality. In her twenties, Agabian moves to Hollywood and becomes a performance artist and begins to discover herself sexually, dating both men and women. After hiding her autobiographical shows from her relatives, she finally decides to confront her family history and takes a trip to Armenia with her artist aunt, during which she finds she must reckon with painful family histories involving displacement and genocide. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories offlesh to bonetake on the force of myth, old and new, giving voice to those who experience the disruption and violence of the borderlands. In these nine tales, silva metes out a furious justice-a whirling, lyrical energy-that scatters the landscape with bones of transformation, reclamation, and healing.Anoriginal and authentic voice.with a unique vision. A blend of indigenismo and folktales retold in a modern vein.these stories come from the clouds, from spirits of ancient ancestors, from the oblique corners of the human consciousness.A new and engaging duende is born.- AlejandroMurguia, author ofThis War Called LoveIf Chagall hadwritten, he would have painted words in the fierce brushstrokes of ire'ne lara silva's stories. IfRemedios Varohad told stories, she would have wound thetendrils of her magic the way ire'ne lara silva paints her world.- Cecile Pineda, authorDevil's Tango: How I Learned theFukushima Step by Stepire'ne lara silva writes about what's between dark shadow and daylight, when, as on the Day of the Dead, we are so aware of the sacred. Though fiction, ire'ne's prose seems to transform into chanting verse.- Dagoberto Gilb, authorofBefore the End, After the Beginning:StoriesIn her brilliant fiction debut,flesh to bone,ire'ne lara silva uses hauntingly lyrical language to tell stories cast in the Latin American tradition of Juan Rulfo and Maria Luisa Bombal. But, do not mistake this work for magical realism. The fantastical elements, raw voices, and shifting realities inhabit an emotional, psychological, and all-too-physical landscape of loss and violence. Life-affirming and intense, the stories sweep us into another world where we come face to face with the deepest truths. Brava!- Norma Cant, author ofCancula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en laFrontera Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Two vampire stories, two authors, two striking meditations on dependency and desire.For readers of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, and Gwendolyn Christie, comes Caramelle, Jewelle Gomezs latest addition to the universe of The Gilda Stories. This short story offers a supernatural alternate history where vampires seek love, laughter, and blood in 1860s slavery America.Inspired by a glimpse of affection in Joseph Le Fanus 1872 classic vampire novella Carmilla, Caramelle follows two vampires who arrive at a way station on the Underground Railroad not to stalk their prey but to seek sanctuary, intertwining the haunting legacy of American slavery with gothic horror and the resilience of Black women.In Carmilla, included here alongside Caramelle, Le Fanu serves the sensual, sapphic, and spooky packaged into the experience of girlhood in 19th Century Austria. This original vampire story predates Dracula and introduces the genre as reliant on themes of gender, sexuality, and race.Gomezs foreword deftly links the two works by exploring the historical and cultural contexts that surround these two powerful iterations of the vampire genre.'As in the past we still hold our freedom and our pleasure in our own strong hands. Hands made even stronger when holding on to the hands of others.' Jewelle GomezCaramelle & Carmilla is the first book in the new series Aunt Lute Colloquy, a publishing space dedicated to fostering feminist conversations across literary generations. Two vampire stories, two authors, two striking meditations on dependency and desire. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This is a story about Detroit in the late fifties/early sixties and the Black women and men who came North to work the lines of the Ford Motor plant. It's a story about John R. Street, the Harlem of Detroit, where they spent their nights trying to forget their days-at the Frolic and Flame Showbars, playing Mr. Ben's numbers, sitting on stoops reminiscing about the days of their youth in the South. Irreverent and poetic, this daring novel explores relationships among Black women of different generations and places who, above all, teach each other how to survive-not on men or money but on the courage to move a long ways in tight spaces.A skillful creator of scenes and characters, Muhanji explores in richly textured prose the complexities of relationships-particularly the intricacies of black lesbian and gay lives.celebrating both individual identity and community strength.an excellent offering from a strong writer.- BooklistHeris a technically flawless, robust novel written with passion and a keen observation of the human condition by an author of both talent and insight. The characters are as memorable as their stories-and their stories are timeless.- Midwest Book ReviewHeris a novel whose words refuse to be constrained by the boundaries of its pages. Like jazz that reaches out to both heart and gut, it is deep, throaty and rich; its language and characters wail, leap, glide and moan. From a central core of strong women characters, Cherry Muhanji experiments and elaborates, playing variations, solos, and combinations up and down the register. Her creation is both eye-opening and sensual.- Erica Bauermeister, 500 Great Books by Women A community of black women struggles together in 1950s Detroit. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Why would a high school teacher who loves teaching leave school-after half a career in the classroom?Teacher at Point Blankanswers this question at a time when concerns about school performance, safety, and teacher attrition are at an all-time and often anxious high. Meditating on subtle and overt forms of violence in secondary public education from an up-close and "pink collar" point of view, Jo Scott-Coe examines her own workplace as a microcosm of the national compulsory K-12 system, where teachers-now nearly 80% women-find themselves idealized and disparaged, expected to embody the dedication of parents, the coldness of data managers, and the obedience of Stepford spouses. Haunted and compelled forward by memories of a classmate who commits suicide on campus, a former teacher-colleague who dies all alone, Hollywood fantasies of the "ideal teacher," and chronic reports of school violence and increasing gender crime, Scott-Coe reveals how her hopes, past and present, struggle for breath at the point blank of denial, confinement, addiction, isolation, hostility, subliminal eroticism-and, at times, a healthy dose of fear.Jo Scott Coe's very fine memoir of her teaching life is unlike anything I have read before.Her lean prose is unyielding to sentimentality and aspires always toward honesty about our lives as adults and as children.One is, here, in the presence of a writer who convinces us that teaching young lives is a constant and, sometimes, terrible journey of adult self-discovery.-Richard Rodriguez, author ofBrown: The Last Discovery of AmericaThis unique and daring bookliftsthe cheerful, can-do mask thathides the reality of what it means to be a teacher.In luminous prose, Jo Scott-Coedebunks the sentimentalized mystique, exposing the harsh reality of extreme expectations,isolation, andpsychic disconnect that engulfsteachers' lives. Scott-Coe's truth is at once disturbing and emancipating.-Susan Ohanian, author ofWhy Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?Jo Scott-Coe writes with humor, insight, and a deep love for her subject. In many ways, she has become a voice for her generation and for teachers, too. Remarkable.- Chris Abani, author ofGraceLandandThe Virgin of Flames Weaving together lyrical, satiric reportage and experimental narratives, Scott-Coe defies clichs and cultural fantasies about teachers and schools. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In homage to Gloria Anzalda and her iconic workBorderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain-the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands-that Anzalda inhabited, theorized, explored, and invented.Named for the Nahuatl word meaning "their soul,"Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldan Borderlandspresents work that is sparked from the soul: the individual soul, the communal soul. These poets interrogate, complicate, and personalize the borderlands in transgressive and transformative ways, opening new paths and revisioning old ones for the next generation of spiritual, political, and cultural border crossers."Within shifting bordersit is good to enter into these voice worldsto stand, bow & listen in their presence. Peoples, familias, cities, towns, rancheras and the wilderness of all border-crossers & messengers of border spaces open in these pages." From the Introduction by Juan Felipe Herrera, US Poet LaureateContributors include:Juan Felipe Herrera,Rodney Gomez,Daniel E. Sols y Martnez,Carmen Calatayud,ire'ne lara silva,Tara Betts,Jose Antonio Rodrguez,David Hatfield Sparks,Barbara Jane Reyes,Miguel M. Morales,Cecca Austin Ochoa,Cordelia Barrera,Oswaldo Vargas,Emmy Perez,Dan Vera,Michael Wasson,Melanie Mrquez Adams,Tomas Moniz,Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez,D.M. Chvez,Ines Hernndez-Avila,Nidia Melissa Bautista,Nadine Saliba,Monica Palacios,Jennine DOC Wright,Cesar L. De Len,Nia Witherspoon,Joe Jimenez,Roy G. Guzmn,Veronica Sandoval,Juan Morales,Victor Payan,Abigail Carl-Klassen,Sarah A. Chavez,Rachel McKibbens,jo reyes-boitel,Adela Najarro,Elsie Rivas Gmez,Lupe Mendez,T. Sarmina,Shauna Osborn,Marie Varghese,Allen Baros,Alexis Pauline Gumbs,Ysabel Y. Gonzlez,Minal Hajratwala,Karla Cordero,Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo,Pablo Miguel Martnez,Barbara Brinson Curiel,Olga Garca Echeverra,Suzy de Jesus Huerta,David Bowles,John Fry,Kim Shuck Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed soft- cover first edition in author-illustrated photo wraps has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Inscribed legibly on flyleaf, 'Oct 17--2009 To [name]-- with such gratitude for our long-time love & friendship-- Judy'.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. El Mundo Zurdo 6is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzalda, selected from the 2016meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzalda.Contributors include:Anel I. Flores,Alejandra I. Ramrez,Isabel Milln,Jennifer Lozano,Yndalecio Isaac Hinjosa,Candace Zepeda,Norma Alarcn,Marisa Belausteguigoitia,Romana Radlwimmer,Richard Giddens, Jr.,Fabiane Ramos,Veronica Sandoval,Itzel Corona Aguilar, Susana N. Ramrez,Megan Michelle Moran Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This collection of 20 plays creatively explores the HIV/AIDS crisis, especially as women of color in the United States experience it.Positive/Negativelooks at both individual and community issues, ranging from deeply personal reckonings with grief and anger to the broader institutional problems of homophobia, racism, sexism, poverty, and access to health care.Those who are guided to this book will find in it affirmation, provocation, enlightenment, laughter and much love. Embrace its offerings as if your life depended on it, because it does.-Evelyn C. WhiteI thinkPostive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDSwill prove to be one of the most important books of the decade on HIV/AIDS and art. These are the voices we've been waiting for, the side of the story we have not heard. This is political, this is art at its absolute most courageous, this is beyond the cutting edge. This collection takes you to the other side; it tells us what we have been wanting, needing, and afraid to know. Imani Harrington and Chyrell D. Bellamy have put together an amazing and magnificent book. We should applaud their courage.- SapphireThis collection of plays explores the central problems faced by women of color with HIV/AIDS. A wonderful book.original and provocative.- Roya Sakhai, Ph.D. A powerful collection exploring neglected dimensions of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Winner of the Independent Publisher Book "IPPY" Award and an American Book Award!Growing up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the lean child of working-class Chicago transplants, Judy Grahn hungered to connect with the larger world, to create a place for herself beyond the deprivations and repressions of small town, 1950s life. Refusing the imperative to silence that was her inheritance as a woman and as a lesbian, Grahn found her way to poetry, to activism, and to the intoxicating beauty and power of openly loving other women. In the process, she emerged not only as one of the most inspirational and influential figures of the gay women's liberation movement, but as a poet whose vision and craft has helped to give voice to long-unexplored dimensions of women's political and spiritual existence.In telling her life story, Grahn reflects on the profound cultural shifts brought about by the women's and gay rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The "simple" revolution she recounts involved not just the formation of new institutions (the Women's Press Collective, Oakland Feminist Women's Health Center, A Woman's Place Bookstore), but the creation of whole new ways of living, including collective feminist households that cut through the political and social isolation of women.Throughout, Grahn describes her involvement with iconic scenes and figures from the history of these years-the Altamont Music Festival, the Black Panthers, the imprisoned Manson women, the Weather Underground, Inez Garcia-sometimes as witness, sometimes as participant, sometimes as instigator. Looking at these events and people within the context of the women's movement, and through the prism of Judy Grahn's luminous poetic sensibility, we see them anew.InA Simple Revolution, Grahn refuses dramatic, psychological narratives that readers have come to expect in memoirs. What emerges is a new, deeply compelling story, grounded in honesty, humility, and compassion-compassion for herself and for the wonderful, if wounded, people who surround her. striking an artful balance between remembering her past, the past of others, and intervening politically in how we think about history.-Julie Enszer,Lambda Literary Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. El Mundo Zurdo 7is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzalda, selected from the 2018 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzalda.Contributors include:Sonya Alemn, Mariana Alessandri,Ewa Antoszek,Lobat Asadi,Paola Bacchetta,Camille Beck,Cordelia E. Barrera,Catalina Bartlett,Samantha Ceballos,Casie C. Cobos,Amanda E. Cuellar,Qwo-Li Driskill,Ricardo L. Franco,Jess Gonzales,L. Heidenreich,Andres C. Lpez,Rebel Mariposa,Yvonne Montoya,Sandra Pacheco,Eliza Perez,Gabriela Raquel Rios,Liliana Saldaa,Victorria Simpson-Gervin,Mario L. Surez,Fabiola Ochoa Tarralba,Stephanie K. Wheeler,ClaudiaZapata This book is the 7th volume of an informal series of selected essays by scholars and artists presented at the 2018 meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldaua, a (roughly) biannual academic conference on the legacy of Gloria Anzaldaua."-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. El Mundo Zurdo 5is acollection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzalda, selected from the 2015 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzalda.Contributors include:Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Trevor Boffone,Margaret Cant-Snchez,Nicholas Centino,Betsy Dahms,Cristina Garrigs,Sonia Hart Surez,Linda Heidenreich,Estee Hernndez, Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa,Sara Ishii.Elizabeth Blomstedt Keating.AnaLouise Keating,Sylvia Mendoza Avia, Roberto C. Orozco,Domino Rene Perez,Anette Portillo,Michael Reyes Salas,Veronica Sandoval,Vernica Sols,David Hatfield Sparks,Carla Wilson,Kelli Zaytoun,Grayna Zygado Consists of SSGA conference proceedings held May 27-30, 2015, at The University of Texas at Austin. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. El Mundo Zurdo 4 is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzalda, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzalda.Contributors include:Trevor Boffone,Jody A. Briones,Deborah Cole,Rufina Cortez,Cindy Cruz,T. Jackie Cuevas,Natalia Deeb-Sossa,Yvette G. Flores,Magda Garca,Michael Lee Gardin,Ines Hernandez-Avila,Rob Johnson,AnaLouise Keating,Tala Khanmalek,Larissa M. Mercado-Lpez.April Michels, Cynthia Paccacerqua,Anita Tijerina Revilla,Gloria M. Rodriguez,Sonia Saldvar-Hull,Adrianna Michelle Santos,Crystal E. Serrano,Cristina Rose Smith,ire'ne lara silva Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This collection features over 80 essays from two decades of news, analysis, interviews, reviews, and letters from one of the nation's oldest and largest women's newspapers, Sojourner: The Women's Forum. These articles are a microcosm of the lively and committed debates around some of the key issues of second-wave feminism: identity politics, economic injustice, politics of the family, reproductive freedom, women's health, sex and sexuality, violence against women, and building alliances. This anthology is a must for everyone interested in a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary U.S. feminist movement and an in-depth analysis of the issues. For teenagers and twenty-something readers, this book will reveal the last two decades of the womens movement as years full of energy and grit, personal journeys, collective puzzling, and clarifying debate. For the rest of us, it will serve as a lively and engaging reminder of how we got here and why were in this feminist conversation. Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Frontline Feminism strikes a perfect balance between celebration of achievement and critique of failure. Book Watch This anthology is an excellent example of the papers commitment to publishing not only respected voices in the community (Adrienne Rich, Angela Davis, etc.) but also the writing of lesser-known women This book is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the womens movement in the US. The Public Eye Frontline Feminism suggests a vision of a truly inclusive womens movement. Womens Review of Books Two decades of essays on the key issues of feminism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…