Synopses & Reviews
Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchú, Cherríe Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries.
Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice.
This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women’s literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas.
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon’s Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Synopsis
This collection, which features the work of Marjorie Agosin, Julia Alvarez, Gloria Anzaldua, Michelle Cliff, Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat, Coco Fusco, Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchu, Cherrie Moraga, and Margaret Randall, unearths an emerging tradition of Latin American and Caribbean women authors who are passionately committed to chronicling, and fighting, the injustices that pervade their home countries.
Synopsis
Eighteen acclaimed authors from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands reflect on globalization, feminism, and their work as writer-activists.
About the Author
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez received her doctorate in 1994 from the Comparative Literature Department at New York University. Her dissertation, Hybrid Encounters: Postcolonial Autobiographies of the Americas, has been published as a series of articles in various academic journals. Dr. Browdy de Hernandez has taught classes in Latin American and Caribbean women's writing in translation at Simon's Rock College since 1994, and this book grew from he 2001 conference entitled "Women, Writing and Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean"at Simon's Rock.