LEADER 04807nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910810155903321 005 20240313233422.0 010 $a1-60344-950-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001094272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000892967 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11932441 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000892967 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10905549 035 $a(PQKB)10744381 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1213996 035 $a(OCoLC)848918361 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1213996 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10720754 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL497731 035 $a(OCoLC)852757013 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001094272 100 $a20120803d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTelling border life stories $efour Mexican American women writers /$fDonna M. Kabalen de Bichara 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCollege Station $cTexas A&M University Press$d2013 215 $aviii, 237 p 225 1 $aRio Grande/Rio Bravo: borderlands culture and traditions ;$vno. 18 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-60344-804-7 311 $a1-299-66481-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMemory and historical remembering: the art of autobiography and theoretical perspectives -- Narrative and descriptive discourse: the autobiographical "I" and cultural pre-constructs concerned with space -- Recovering cultural and historical memory: the dynamic quality of semiotic structures -- The female subject and expressions of life experiences: social practice and imaginary formations -- Conclusions. 330 $aVoices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest. Until recently, little attention has been paid to the writing of the women included in this study. As Kabalen de Bichara notes, it is precisely such historical exclusion of texts written by Mexican American women that gives particular significance to the reexamination of the five autobiographical works that provide the focus for this in-depth study. "Early Life and Education" and Dew on the Thorn by Jovita González (1904-83), deal with life experiences in Texas and were likely written between 1926 and the 1940s; both texts were published in 1997. Romance of a Little Village Girl, first published in 1955, focuses on life in New Mexico, and was written by Cleofas Jaramillo (1878-1956) when the author was in her seventies. A Beautiful, Cruel Country, by Eva Antonio Wilbur-Cruce (1904-98), introduces the reader to history and a way of life that developed in the cultural space of Arizona. Created over a ten-year period, this text was published in 1987, just eleven years before the author's death. Hoyt Street, by Mary Helen Ponce (b. 1938), began as a research paper during the period of the autobiographer's undergraduate studies (1974-80), and was published in its present form in 1993. These border autobiographies can be understood as attempts on the part of the Mexican American female autobiographers to put themselves into the text and thus write their experiences into existence. 410 0$aRio Grande/Ri?o Bravo ;$vno. 18. 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBiographical fiction, American$zSouthwest, New$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMexican American women authors$zSouthwest, New$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMexican American women in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBiographical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMexican American women authors$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMexican American women in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 676 $a818/.54030992870896872 700 $aKabalen de Bichara$b Donna M$01609491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810155903321 996 $aTelling border life stories$93936775 997 $aUNINA