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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158994603321

Autore

Castillo Ana

Titolo

Black dove : mama, mi'jo, and me / / Ana Castillo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : The Feminist Press at CUNY, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9781558619241

1-55861-924-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 pages)

Classificazione

BIO026000FAM032000FAM034010BIO002000

Disciplina

814/.54

Soggetti

Mexican American women authors - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- My mother's Mexico -- Remembering las cartoneras -- Her last tortillas -- Peel me a girl -- Bowing out -- On mothers, lovers, and other rivals -- When I died in Oaxaca -- Are hunters born or made? -- Swimming with sharks -- What's in a nombre -- Mi'jo's Canon in D Major -- Love, your son, Marcello -- And the woman fled into the desert -- Searching the other side -- Black dove -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

Raised by immigrants and raising a brown son, Ana Castillo finds herself as a writer, feminist, and mother.