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Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. 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. Reclaiming testimonio as a tool for understanding the complexities of Latina identity, they compare how each made the journey to become credentialed creative thinkers and writers. Telling to Live unleashes the clarifying power of sharing these stories.The complex and rich tapestry of narratives that comprises this book introduces us to an intergenerational group of Latina women who negotiate their place in U.S. society at the cusp of the twenty-first century. 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. The stories, poetry, memoirs, and reflections of this diverse group of Puerto Rican, Chicana, Native American, Mexican, Cuban, Dominican, Sephardic, mixed-heritage, and Central American women provide new perspectives on feminist theorizing, perspectives located in the borderlands of Latino cultures.This often heart wrenching, sometimes playful, yet always insightful collection will interest those who wish to understand the challenges U.S. society poses for women of complex cultural heritages who strive to carve out their own spaces in the ivory tower.Contributors. Luz del Alba Acevedo, Norma Alarcon, Celia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, Rina Benmayor, Norma E. Cantu, Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Gloria Holguin Cuadraz, Liza Fiol-Matta, Yvette Flores-Ortiz, Ines Hernandez-Avila, Aurora Levins Morales, Clara Lomas, Iris Ofelia Lopez, Mirtha N. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, Caridad Souza, Patricia Zavella
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18 septembre 2001

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Telling to Live
LatinaFeministTestimonios
A book in the series
Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations
Series editors
Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University
Irene Silverblatt, Duke University
Sonia Saldívar-Hull,
University of California
at Los Angeles
elling to live T Latina FeministTestimonios
The Latina Feminist Group
Luz del Alba AcevedoZNorma Alarcón
Celia AlvarezZRuth BeharZRina Benmayor
Norma E. CantúZDaisy Cocco De Filippis
Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
Liza Fiol-MattaZYvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
Inés Hernández-AvilaZAurora Levins Morales
Clara LomasZIris Ofelia López
Mirtha N. QuintanalesZEliana Rivero
Caridad SouzaZPatricia Zavella
Duke University Press
Durham and London 2001
2001 Duke University Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$
Typeset in Carter and Cone Galliard by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Cover art,Circle of Ancestors,by Amalia Mesa-Bains.
I
Contents
About the Series
Acknowledgments
ix
xi
Introduction:Papelitos Guardados: TheorizingLatinidadesThroughTestimonio
GENEALOGIES OF EMPOWERMENT
1
25
Certified Organic IntellectualZaurora levins morales
My Father’s HandsZyvette gisele flores-ortiz
33
Vignettes of a Working-Class Puerto Rican Girl in Brooklyn, New YorkZcelia alvarez39
SilenceBeginsatHomeZpatricia zavella
43
You Speak Spanish Because You Are Jewish?Zrina benmayor
Getting ThereCuando No Hay CaminoZnorma e. cantú
27
55
60
Reflection and Rebirth: The Evolving Life of a Latina AcademicZ iris ofelia lópez69
Mi Primera Amiguita:CarmelitaZgloria holguín cuádraz
The House That Mamá Biela BuiltZdaisy cocco de filippis
LightningZmirtha n. quintanales
96
My Name Is This StoryZaurora levins morales
100
86
90
WelcometotheIvoryTowerZlatina anónima
156
Between Perfection and InvisibilityZlatina anónima
196
139
132
229
169
TemporaryLatinaZruth behar
231
Lessons Learned from an Assistant ProfessorZ gloria holguín cuádraz227
Don’t You Like Being in the University?Zlatina anónima
The Prize of a New CadillacZyvette gisele flores-ortiz
vi
La Tra(d)iciónZlatina anónima
Daughter of BootstrapZluz del alba acevedo
El BesoZruth behar
Point of DepartureZmirtha n. quintanales
TheChristmasPresentZcaridad souza
Biting ThroughZlatina anónima
201
Diary ofLa Lloronawith a Ph.D.Zgloria holguín cuádraz
245
II
Dispelling theSombras, Grito mi nombre con rayos de luzZ inés hernández avila238
ALCHEMIESOFERASURE
114
Beyond Survival: A Politics/Poetics of Puerto Rican ConsciousnessZliza fiol-matta148
Canto de Mi Madre/Canto de Mi PadreZinés hernández avila
I Still Don’t Know WhyZlatina anónima
Contents
207
224
218
Resisting the Alchemy of Erasure: Journey to Labor IdeasZ clara lomas104
204
Another Way to Grow Up Puerto RicanZliza fiol-matta
I Can Fly: Of Dreams and Other NonfictionsZeliana rivero
167
177
192
Snapshots from My Daze in SchoolZcelia alvarez
A Escondidas: A Chicana Feminist Teacher Who Writes/A Chicana Feminist Writer Who TeachesZnorma e. cantú123
212
Esta Risa No Es de LocaZcaridad souza
185
321
vii
273
275
307
309
AúnZyvette gisele flores-ortiz
269
Speaking Among Friends: Whose Empowerment, Whose Resistance?Zluz del alba acevedo250
247
Sand from Varadero BeachZruth behar
Missing BodyZcaridad souza
Reading the BodyZnorma e. cantú
314
A Working-classBruja’s Fears and DesiresZnorma e. cantú
BolerosZeliana rivero
Why My Ears Aren’t PiercedZruth behar
266
318
IV
Malabareando/JugglingZliza fiol-matta
Migraine/JaquecaZnorma e. cantú
The WartZdaisy cocco de filippis
PASSION, DESIRES, AND CELEBRATIONS
THE BODY RE/MEMBERS
III
La CosaZruth behar
Let Me SleepZlatina anónima
Night TerrorsZlatina anónima
ShamelessDesireZaurora levins morales
Telling To Live:Devoro la Mentira, Resucitando Mi SerZ inés hernández avila298
303
Desde el Diván: Testimoniosfrom the CouchZ yvette gisele flores-ortiz294
La PrincesaZlatina anónima
ForcedbyCircumstanceZnorma alarcón
264
DepressionZmirtha n. quintanales
263
286
289
293
291
277
271
305
Contents
The Names I Used to Call You/The Names I Do Call YouZ eliana rivero319
PlátanossmalPndaZrina benmayor
viii
Three Penny OperaroBniniMhpmyynoveESsorZ daisy cocco de filippis323
Descubrimiento(s)Zcelia alvarez
Entre NosotrasZlatina anónima
Piscoand CranberryZeliana rivero
327
331
334
De lo que es Amor, de lo que es VidaZinés hernández avila
Eating MangoZliza fiol-matta
344
Everyday GraceZmirtha n. quintanales
Tenemos que Seguir LuchandoZpatricia zavella
Contents
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About the Authors
357
373
345
348
336
About the Series
Latin america otherwise:Languages, Empires, Nationsis a critical se-ries. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to define ‘‘Latin America’’ while at the same time exploring the broad interplay of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin America, at the crossroads of competing imperial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geopolitical entity since the nineteenth century. This series provides a starting point to redefine Latin America as a configuration of political, linguistic, cultural, and eco-nomic intersections that demands a continuous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the ongoing process of globalization and the relocation of people and cultures that have characterized Latin America’s expe-rience.Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a forum that confronts established geocultural constructions, that rethinks area studies and disciplinary boundaries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and that, correspondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. Telling to Live is a bold articulation of what Cherríe Moraga has called ‘‘theory in the flesh.’’ This book continues the tradition ofThis Bridge Called My Back, and o√erstestimonios that attest to the urgency with which U.S. women of color struggle for autonomy and survival in their journey through the formidable class system in U.S. institutions. Their stories tell secrets of how a traditional, phallocentric Latino family structure serves as one more wall that these women must scale. At the same time, the stories show how knowledge of and from their everyday lives is the basis for theorizing and constructing an evolving political praxis to address the material conditions in
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