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Essays<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Sabotaging Patriarchy: La Locura as Feminist Countersociety in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By <\/em><\/strong>Bryan R. Pearce-Gonzales<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bryan R. Pearce-Gonzales<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, where he teaches language, cultural and literary studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. His research interests include gender studies and the various articulations of cultural identity within Chicana\/o literature. His most recent publication is “Chicana\/o Blasphemy: John Phillip Santos as Globalized Chicana\/o Citizen” in the journal Camino Real<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Refiguring La Malinche: Female \u201cBetrayal\u201d as Cultural Negotiation in the Short Stories of Mar\u00eda Cristina Mena<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Andrea Powell Wolfe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrea Powell Wolfe<\/strong> teaches literature and Honors Humanities courses at Ball State University. She specializes in twentieth-century American literature, and her current book project considers the literary positioning of the black mother within the national body politic in narratives of slavery, Reconstruction, and segregation.<\/p>\n

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Snapshots from the Mother Road’: Travel and Motherhood in Lorraine L\u00f3pez\u2019s The Gifted Gabald\u00f3n Sisters<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Cristina Herrera<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cristina Herrera<\/strong> earned her Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University, specializing in contemporary Chicana and Latina literature. She teaches in the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She has published in journals such as Confluencia<\/em>, Women’s Studies<\/em>, Food, Culture & Society<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of Caribbean Literatures,<\/em>\u00a0and Chicana\/Latina Studies<\/em>. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that examines mother-daughter relationships in novels by contemporary Chicana writers.<\/p>\n

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Detenida en la frontera: \u201cLa conciencia de la mestiza\u201d en Detained in the Desert <\/em>de Josefina L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Trevor Boffone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trevor Boffone<\/strong>\u00a0is currently pursuing his doctorate in U.S. Latino Literature and a graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Houston. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Hispanic Studies from Villanova University in Pennsylvania and a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Spanish from Loyola University New Orleans. His research centers on Contemporary Hispanic Theatre, Chicana Feminism, Women and Gender Studies, and US Latino Literature. Other areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first centuries Latin American Literature and post-Franco Spanish culture, film and theatre.<\/p>\n

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Creative Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Playing Mar\u00eda Sabida and Mar\u00eda La Loca: My Personal Creative Non-Fiction Commentary on Judith Ortiz Cofer <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Rafael Ocasio<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rafael Ocasio<\/strong> is a Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College and the author of two books about the Cuban dissident writer Reinaldo Arenas: Reinaldo Arenas: Cuba’s Political and Sexual Outlaw<\/em> (2003) and A Gay Cuban Activist in Exile (<\/em>2007).\u00a0 His most recent book, Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums<\/em> (2012), debunks the conventional motion that nineteenth Cuban Costumbrista literature reveals little about the Afro-Cuban experience.<\/p>\n

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Poetry<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Canvas of Dreams<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Kurma Murrain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kurma Murrain <\/strong>is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and author of the poetry collection Esta Soy<\/em> (1998). Her poetry has appeared in international journals and online magazines such as El Tiempo<\/em>, Que Pasa<\/em>, La Noticia<\/em> and Label Me Latino\/a<\/em>. In addition, she has translated to Spanish Life in the Shadow of the Swastika<\/em> by Frieda Roos-Van Hessen and Honoring God with my Life<\/em> by Miriam Nadler. She is a founding member of Charlotte\u2019s ArteSanos de la Palabra – a group of poets who enrich the cultural and literary scene of the Queen City. She has volunteered with programs like ArtS\u00ed, Gil Project\u2019s Flag of Hope and other arts education initiatives. Kurma currently teaches high school mathematics with Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. In her free time, she teaches zumba and tutors children and adults in Spanish. Her love of writing is best exemplified in her poetry readings that take place around Charlotte.<\/p>\n

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Avalancha<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Mark Smith-Soto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Smith-Soto<\/strong> was born in Washington, DC, and raised in his mother\u2019s country, Costa Rica. He is Professor of Spanish and editor of\u00a0International Poetry Review<\/em>\u00a0at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.\u00a0 He has published three prize-winning chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections to date:\u00a0Our Lives Are Rivers<\/em>\u00a0(University Press of Florida, 2003), and\u00a0Any Second Now<\/em>\u00a0(Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2006).\u00a0His poetry, which has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and won him an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing (2006), has appeared in\u00a0Antioch Review, Kenyon Review,\u00a0Literary Review, Nimrod, The Sun<\/em>\u00a0and many other publications.\u00a0In 2010, Unicorn Press brought out his work of translation\u00a0Fever Season<\/em>, the selected poetry of Costa Rican writer Ana Istar\u00fa. His most recent works are\u00a0Berkeley Prelude: A Lyrical Memoir<\/em>\u00a0(Unicorn Press, 2012) and the chapbook\u00a0Splices,<\/em>\u00a0JUST PUBLISHED (March, 2012) By Finishing Line Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Short Story<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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La herencia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Fabio Chee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Leonardo Fabio L\u00f3pez Madrigal legally became Fabio Chee<\/strong> as a consequence of his mother’s marriages, legal adoptions, and immigration to the United States. The Italian first name is a result of his mother’s past love for a Chilean singer named Leonardo Fabio. The last name is due to his Chinese-Mexican stepfather. He was born in Mexicali, Baja California but he grew up on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border; in the countryside and in the city. He obtained an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. from the University of California. Fabio Chee was the director of the graduate student journals Pterod\u00e1ctilo<\/em> (Austin) and Alud<\/em> (Irvine). His Ph.D. dissertation focuses on problems in Chicana\/o visual and narrative representations of identity. Visit his blog at: http:\/\/www.lineaeneldesierto.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>We, Dancers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Resurrecci\u00f3n Espinosa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Resurreccion Espinosa,<\/strong>Director of Teatro Latino de New London, is a middle school Spanish teacher in New Haven, Connecticut and a Master Teacher Artist in Theater with the Connecticut Office of the Arts. She has a degree from the University of Granada, Spain. Resurreci\u00f3n has published El Gaucho Vegetariano and Other Plays for Students of Spanish<\/em> (University Press of America, 2012), Don Quijote in America,<\/em> Plays in English and Spanish<\/em> (Teacher Ideas Press, 2002), and Waking Dream <\/em>(1998), a collection of poems in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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