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Title: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0-452-27424-9 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This woman is a seer.
Comment: Castillo has obviously tapped into her power for this one. Her fiction is moving, thought-provoking, angering, sometimes even humorous... but this essay collection is even more impressive. I'm sure some will consider her xicanista views extreme, but Castillo calls it as she sees it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Powerful Revision of Amerindian/Xicana Women's History!
Comment: Massacre of the Dreamers is Ana Castillo's transdisciplinary book about the deconstruction of Mexic pallocentric "pyramids," as she herself puts it. By re(w)riting history, Castillo reconfigures the role of the Amerindian/Xicana/Mexican woman, allowing her to draw strength from Mesoamerican female goddesses. In this remarkable text, furthermore, Castillo employs her "own raw materials" (104) as an antidote to male-centered cosmic consciousness that operates in binary frames of dualisms, dichotomies, and schisms. In resurecting her spiritual mother goddesses, Castillo, like Anzaldua and Cisneros, reinserts "the forsaken feminine into our consciousness" (12). By exposing the manner in which the xicana has been "gagged" for hundreds of years, Castillo rejects colonization and mapps a xicana history with a difference that allows the Amerindian woman's various selves to coexist simultaneously, reinforcing her identity
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Title: So Far from God: A Novel by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0452272092 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, Nawal El Saadawi, Sherif Hetata, Nawal Sa'dawi ISBN: 0862321107 Publisher: Zed Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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Title: The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0385420137 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: La frontera / Borderlands by Gloria Anzald¿A, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Sonia Saldivar-Hull ISBN: 1879960567 Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Peel My Love Like an Onion : A Novel by Ana Castillo ISBN: 038549677X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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