Recovering Spain's feminist tradition

Critics and Florencia Pinar / Feminist attitudes and expression in Golden Age Spain / Partial feminism of Ana de San Bartolomé / Juana and her sisters / No doubt it will amaze you / Playing with Saint Isabel / Constructing her own tradition / Becoming angelic / Rosalía de Castro / Concepćion arenal and the nineteenth-century Spanish debates about women's sphere and education / My distinguished friend and colleague Tula / Carmen de Burgos / Tapestry of a feminist life / Margarita Nelken / Feminism and anarchism / Vindicación Feminista and the feminist community in post-france Spain / Montserrat Roig / Maria-Mercè Marçal / Voice, marginality, and seduction in the short fiction of Carme Riera

The scandal of Susan Sontag

Gender and culture

Gender and culture.

Introduction: unextinguished: Susan Sontag's work in progress / Some notes on "Notes on camp" / Absolute seriousness: Susan Sontag in American popular culture / "Not even a New Yorker": Susan Sontag in America / Romances of community in Sontag's later fiction / Sontag, modernity, and cinema: women and an aesthetics of silence, 1960-1980 / Sontag on theater / The "counterculture" in quotation marks: Sontag and Marcuse on the work of revolution / A way of feeling is a way of seeing: Sontag and the visual arts / Metaphors kill: "Against interpretation" and the illness books / The posthumous life of Susan Sontag / In summa: the latter essays: an appreciation / Susan Sontag, cosmophage

Heracles' bow : essays on the rhetoric and poetics of the law

Rhetoric of the human sciences

Rhetoric of the human sciences.

Heracles' bow : persuasion and community in Sophocles' Philoctetes -- Rhetoric and law : the arts of cultural and communal life -- The study of law as an intellectual activity : a talk to entering students -- The invisible discourse of the law : reflections on legal literacy and general education -- Reading law and reading literature : law as language -- The judicial opinion and the poem : ways of reading, ways of life -- Fact, fiction, and value in historical narrative : Gibbon's roads of Rome -- Telling stories in the law and in ordinary life : the Oresteia and "Noon wine" -- Making sense of what we do : the criminal law as a system of meaning -- Plato's Gorgias and the modern lawyer : a dialogue on the ethics of argument -- Afterword: Law as law.

Embracing, evaluating, and examining African American children's and young adult literature

A comparative analysis of The Brownies' book and contemporary African American children's literature written by Patricia C. McKissack / "The random brushing of birds" : representations of African American women in biographies / Following tradition : young adult literature as neo-slave narrative / Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and the roots of African American children's literature / A triumphant mulatto : racial construction in Mildred Taylor's The land / Historical fiction and cultural evocations in a community-based literary club / My boys and my books : engaging African American young men in emancipatory reading / Reader responses to African American children's literature : a sociolinguistic perspective / Reading our richly diverse world : conceptualizing a response development zone / African American children's literature in rural schools / Where life and children's literature meet : African American males in the elementary grades / Fences, physical and proverbial : pre-service teachers' engagement with The other side by Jacqueline Woodson

American Indians and the urban experience

Contemporary Native American communities ;

Foreword / Introduction / The path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles / The urban tradition among Native Americans / Two worlds / Telling the Indian urban : representations in American Indian fiction / Coyote as a simple man / Yaqui cultural and linguistic evolution through a history of urbanization / Is urban a person or a place? : characteristics of urban Indian country / Retribalization in urban Indian communities / And the drumbeat still goes on ... urban Indian institutional survival into the new millennium / Cities / Continuing identity : Laguna Pueblo railroaders in Richmond, California / Feminists or reformers? : American Indian women and community in Phoenix, 1965-1980 / Metropolitan Indian series #1 / The Cid / Derek and Peter discuss the pro's and con's of city life / An urban platform for advocating justice : protecting the Menominee Forest / Ruby roast / Urban (trans)formations : changes in the meaning and use of American Indian identity / Ironworker I / Ironworker II / "This hole in our heart" : the urban-raised generation and the legacy of silence / Living room of an Indian family in the San Francisco Bay Area : mantelpiece / Gift watching T.V. / Quiet desperation / Weaving Andean networks in unstable labor markets / A poem maybe for Tina Deschenie / Kokopeli gigging in the city / Red wit in the city : urban Indian comedy / Indian pride / Healing through grief : urban Indians reimagining culture and community / Red, white & blue / Youngest trapper on 7th Street / My uncle / Downtown Oklahoma City, 1952 / Letter home / Rejection and belonging in addiction and recovery : four urban Indian men in Milwaukee / Excerpt from a work in progress / Mattie goes traveling

Teaching late-twentieth-century Mexicana and Chicana writers

Options for teaching ;

Mexicana Writers and Their Precursors -- Teaching Cartucho and Nellie Campobello's Goal of Restoring Pancho Villa to Mexican History / Sor Juana's Legacy and Rosario Castellanos's Feminist Essays / Testimony and Chronicle in Elena Poniatowska's Las mily una ... La herida de Paulina / Teaching Contemporary Mexico to General Education Students through Elena Poniatowska's Stories / Illness and Disability: From Narrative Prosthesis to Life Experience in Works by Maria Luisa Puga / Small Acts of Resistance: The New Woman Confronts Social Conventions in the Narratives of Silvia Molina / Symbols, Codes, and Points of Focus in Silvia Molina's "Mentira piadosa" / Narrative Spaces, Gender, and Sephardic Identity in Rosa Nissan's Novia que te vea / The Reader and the Text in Carmen Boullosa's Fragmented Narratives / Navigating Unanswerable Questions in Carmen Boullosa's "So Disappear" / Chicana Writers and Their Precursors -- Jovita Gonzalez and "Her People's History": Teaching Borderlands Culture through Close Reading and Archival Practice / Pre-Civil-Rights-Era Chicana Writing and the Impact of the Mexican Revolution: Josefina Niggli's Step Down, Elder Brother / Crossing the (Genre) Border: Sandra Cisneros's Genre Innovation in The House on Mango Street / Navigating Narrative Ambiguity in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters / The Holy and the Ordinary: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language in Denise Chavez's Face of an Angel / Deconstructing Mexican Masculinity in Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante / Norma Elia Cantu's Canicula and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands / La frontera in a Multiethnic Literature Classroom / The Personal and the Historical in Lucha Corpi's Detective Novels / Feminist Consciousness and Community Activism in Novels by Ana Castillo and Demetria Martinez / Domestication and Resistance in the Short Fiction of Alma Luz Villanueva and Helena Maria Viramontes / Lesson Plans for Four Stories in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" and Other Stories / Comparative Notions -- Bridging the Border: Guiding a Comparative Study of Nellie Campobello's Cartucho and Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street / Borderlands, Race, and Gender in Novels by Helena Maria Viramontes and Rosario Castellanos / Brianda Domecq's Novel La Santa de Cabora and a Southwest Chautauqua about the Curandera Teresa Urrea: A Personal Narrative / Weight, Writing, and Privilege: Carmen Boullosa, Elena Poniatowska, and Rosario Castellanos / Visual and Digital Strategies -- Life Writing, Biopics, Gender, and Media: Elena Poniatowska's Tinisima and Leonora / Visual Teaching Strategies and La Malinche as a Cultural Icon / Teaching Queer Chicana Writers through Historical Research, Blogs, and Podcasts / Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness and Digital Literacy through an Active Learning Project / Drama and Performance -- Reading, Witnessing, and Staging Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga's The Panza Monologues / Evolution of a Transnational Imaginary in the Drama of Josefina Niggli, Josefina Lopez, and Yareli Arizmendi / Confronting Gender and Sexual Identity in Cherrie Moraga's Shadow of a Man / Mapping and Performing Indigenous Mexicana Identities: Violeta Luna and the Woman of Maize

All of us

The homing

It takes a village

All the beating hearts

Cold snap

¡Solo ayuda! : cómo construir un mundo mejor

Just help! Spanish