Between the social imposition of childlessness upon lesbians and the cult of maternity enforced against Latinas, Cherríe Moraga asserts that the notions of motherhood and family are not given by...

Este escrito ofrece una lectura de la obra de Cherríe Moraga como motor para desarticular algunos patrones sociales que contribuyen a la jerarquización de los sujetos según su orientación sexual....

In late 1829, Lorenzo de Zavala, an influential Mexican statesman, writer, and editor, fled Mexico and traveled to the United States as a political exile. In 1834 he published Viage a los Estados...

La socarronería y el humor, cargados a veces de ironía en los cuentos de Jorge Kattán Zablah, representan una amena pero nada frívola forma de tratar los problemas humanos y socio-político-...

This essay analyzes how Caramelo, or, puro cuento (2002) by Sandra Cisneros contests official and patriarchal renditions of the past involving Mexico and the U.S. by using narrative sub-...

My analysis focuses on Graciela Limón’s novel The Memories of Ana Calderón to show; first, how the author participates in Ellen McCracken’s idea that Latina narrativists present...