Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latin America Otherwise)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822327651 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly For a while in the late 1980s, it seemed as if all of Duke University's English Department had gone public with the complications and heartbreaks of the life of the star academic. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. In Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, the 18 women of the Latina Feminist group, formed in 1993 and including Ruth Behar and Eliana Rivero, discuss immigrant and working class childhoods, developing a love of reading, an avoidance of K-12 teaching in order to partake of the larger promises of the (mostly literature-based) university positions. After Duke's mainly white English Department finished telling their stories, the confessional narratives of academics have had a continued, and much more important, role as a genre where those marginalized by the academy for reasons of race or ethnicity tell about their complicated entry and then incorporation into the university system
J. Aragon said Fabulous Book. Telling to Live fills the void by sharing the "testimonios" of the various Latina feminist writers in the book. The testimonios are poignant and at times hilarious.I used this book in an upper division course and by and large the students liked the book. The Latina/o students were extremely fond of the book and it caused self-reflection on their part.I own the book and have read it twice and know that I will continue to go back for the book for personal and acadmic reasons.. "Buenísimo!" according to Amalia Garcia. Great read for anyone who enjoys learning about real life Latina struggles and accomplishments. For Latinas looking for stories that hit close to home and warm your heart, lo recomiendo cien por ciento.. "Amazing book" according to Amazon Customer. Great read for anyone not just Latina's. We used this book in my class in college and everyone (even the guys) loved the class and the book! Recommend to anyone!
Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or life stories—whether as poets, oral historians, literary scholars, ethnographers, or psychologists. Through coalitional politics, these women have forged feminist political stances about generating knowledge through experience. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, Caridad Souza, Patricia Zavella. These are the stories of women who struggled to reach the echelons of higher education, often against great odds, and constructed relationships of sustenance and creativity along the way. Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage the