Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Preface by Elizabeth Martinez; Introduction by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez; Part One: Re-Envisioning History; 1 Revision; Aurora Levins Morales; 2 We Are Ugly, But We Are Here; Edwidge Danticat; 3 The Silent Witness; Raquel Partnoy; 4 And What Would It Be Like? Michelle Cliff; 5 Everything I Kept: Reflections of an "Anthropoeta"; Ruth Behar; 6 The Dream of Nunca Mas: Healing the Wounds; Emma Sepulveda; Part Two: The Politics of Language and Identity; 7 Language as an Instrument of Domination; Rosario Castellanos; 8 Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers; Gloria Anzaldua; 9 Las aeious; Ruth Irupe Sanabria; 10 Art in America con Acento; Cherrie Moraga; 11 The Myth of the Latin Woman; Judith Ortiz Cofer; 12 The Quincentenary Conference and the Earth Summit, 1992; Rigoberta Menchu; Part Three: Strategies of Resistance; 13 A Massacre in Mexico; Elena Poniatowska; 14 A Small Place; Jamaica Kincaid; 15 One Precious Moment; Margaret Randall; 16 On Being Shorter: How Our Testimonial Texts Defy the Academy; Alicia Partnoy; 17 Death in the Desert: The Women of Ciudad Juarez; Marjorie Agosin; 18 I Came to Help: Resistance Writ Small; Julia Alvarez; Selected Bibliography; Permissions; About the Editor and Contributors; Index

About the Author

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez has taught classes in Latin American and Caribbean women's writing at Simon's Rock College in Massachusetts for nearly a decade, and was director of the 2000 conference "Women, Writing and Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean," which included presentations by Julia Alvarez, Margaret Randall, Marjorie Agosin, Emma Sepulveda and others.