Chicana Ways – Karin Rosa Ikas

Boston: David R. Godine. 1993 Infinite Divisions, ed. Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana Rivero. Tucson: Uni¬ versity of Arizona Press. Vous AvezDit: Chicano. Bordeaux, France: Centre de Recherches sur L’Amerique Anglophonet. 1994 Light from a Nearby Window, ed. J. Acosta. San Francisco: City Fights. Works Published in Journals and Magazines 1977 El Fuego de Aztlan [Berkeley, Calif.] 1/4.

1978 San Jose Studies [San Jose, Calif.] 4/1. 1979 Prisma [Oakland, Calif., Mills College] 1/1. LaPalabra [Tempe, Ariz.] 1/2. 1980 Semana de Bellas Artes [Mexico City, inba] no. 133. 1984 Imagine [Boston] 1/2. 1985 Poetry San Francisco no. 3. 1987 Beatitude34 [San Francisco]. 1988 Poetry Flash [Berkeley, Calif.] no. 191. 1992 The Americas Review [Houston] 20/3-4. Other Publications in Which Works Have Appeared 1977 “De Colores.” La Cosecha [Albuquerque, N.Mex.] 3/3. El Fuego de Aztlan [Berkeley, Calif.] 1/4. 1983 Plural [Mexico City] 13/1, no. 145. 1984 “Fos Cristos del Alma/Martyrs of the Soul.”

Palabra Nueva: Cuentos Chi- canos [University of Texas, El Paso]. 1985 Boston Review 10/2. Revista Literaria:El Tecolote [San Francisco] 6/1. 1987 Banderas. [Elementary reader.] Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1988 Memorias. Third Annual Congress of U.S.-Mexico Writers, Frontera Norte, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez. 1993 Cuento Chicano del SigloXX, ed. Ricardo Aguilar. Mexico City: Difusion Cultural unam. Hispanic Writers of the United States, ed. Nicolas Kanellos. Houston: Arte Publico. 1995 Las Formas de Nuestras Voces: Chicana and Mexicana Writers in Mexico, ed. Claire Joysmith. Mexico City: unam and Third Woman.

Latina: Women’s Voices from the Borderlands, ed. Fillian Castillo-Speed. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1997 The Hispanic Literary Companion, ed. Nicolas Kanellos. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research. Jamie Luj an Cofounder of the Latina Theatre Lab and Actress “Dare to be who you are and celebrate who you are.” OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER l6, 1996 Jamie lujan is a Bay Area actress and the youngest cofounder (.co-madre) of the Latina Theatre Lab.1 (She is also a board member and volunteer coordinator for Brava! For Women in the Arts,2 for which she has also taught beginning acting classes for women of color.

Her students range from up-and-coming profession¬ als to women just exploring new territory. Jamie Lujan was born on July 28, 1966, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Dorothy and James Lujan and grew up in Denver, Colorado. From 1984 to 1988 she attended Emerson College in Boston, where she earned a B.F.A. in acting. In 1988 Lujan moved to San Francisco and participated in the summer training program at the American Conservatory Theatre.

Two years later she was accepted to act’s two-year advanced training program. At act Lujan was seen in the main-stage production of Hamlet (ensemble) and in studio productions of Major Barbara (title role), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), The Philistines (Yuluna), and Hayfever (Jackie). Lujan completed her M.F.A. in acting at act in 1995 with a thesis proj¬ ect on Cherrie Moraga’s play Heroes and Saints.

During the past two decades, literary issues like multi- culturalism, gender, borders and border crossing, and the development of personal, cultural, and alternative identities have become increasingly important. The same years have seen the flourishing of writers from a number of ethnic minorities, including the Mexican- American women who are the subjects of these prob¬ ing and insightful interviews by Karin Rosa Ikas. The interviews, which address such topics as per¬ sonal background, education, sense of ethnic and gender identity, the origins and intention of published works, and general views on writing, culture, and art, reveal a rich multiplicity of Chicana voices and views.

The writers come from Texas, New Mexico, and Cali¬ fornia; their connections to Mexico are as direct as having been born there and as tenuous as having de¬ scended from a family resident in New Mexico for over four centuries. Their backgrounds reflect a wide range of socioeconomic realities, and their views on gender, sexuality, race, and writing are equally di¬ verse. Yet to each of these writers, her identity as a Chicana and as a woman is critically important to her evolution and purpose as a writer.

Mexican-Americans, the fastest growing ethnic mi¬ nority group in the United States, are creating some of the most engaging and provocative literature on the contemporary scene. The ten Chicanas inter¬ viewed here are among the most productive and ex¬ perimental; their work offers novel and admirable ways of addressing issues like ethnicity, racism, ho¬ mophobia, class and generational concerns, as well as matters of literary genre and form.

Chicana Ways will be essential reading for anyone interested in multi¬ cultural and feminist literature and will serve as com¬ pelling documentation of the rich diversity and bril¬ liance of contemporary Mexican-American writing. PS Chicana ways 153 751091000309840 .M4 C455 PS Chicana ways 153 751091000309840 .M4 C455 NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE LIBRARY 1515 Pioneer Drive Harrison, AR 72601 Noifli Artensas college 1515 Pioneer Drive Harrison, AR 72601 North Arkansas College 1515 Pioneer Drive Harrison, AR 72601 Chicana Ways Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers KARIN ROSA I KAS University of Nevada Press Reno

p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-87417-492-9 (alk. paper)—isbn 0-87417-493-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Mexican American authors—Interviews. 2. American literature—Mexican American authors—History and criticism—Theory, etc. 3. American literature—Women authors— History and criticism—Theory, etc. 4. American literature—20th century—History and criticism—Theory, etc. 5.

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