Book: Paperback | 6.06 x 8.97in | 256 pages | ISBN 9780452274242 | 01 Sep 1995 | Plume | 18 - AND UP
In this provocative collection of essays, award-winning poet, novelist, scholar, and
activist/curandera Ana Castillo becomes a voice for Mexic-Amerindian women silenced for
hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and brown-skinned. In it Castillo uses the term
"Xicanisma" to replace "Chicana feminism," including mestiza women on both sides of the border: the
working poor, wives and mothers whose cultural roots have been ignored as completely as have been their
desires, dreams, and struggles to be heard. In her exquisitely written, superbly imagistic prose, she aims to
inform, raise consciousness, and incite Chicanas--and all caring people--to change mainstream society from
one of exclusion to inclusion.
Massacre of the Dreamers - Ana Castillo
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One: A Countryless Woman: The Early Feminista
Two: The 1986 Watsonville Women's Strike: A Case of Mexicana Activism
Three: The Ancient Roots of Machismo
Four: Saintly Mother and Soldier's Whore: The Leftist/Catholic Paradigm
Five: In the Beginning There Was Eva
Six: La Macha: Toward an Erotic Whole Self
Seven: Brujas and Curanderas: A Lived Spirituality
Eight: Un Tapiz: Poetics of Conscientizacion
Nine: Toward the Mother-Bond Principle
Ten: Resurrection of the Dreamers
Notes
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