Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Illustration by Jennifer Whiting
• Latina Lesbian Writers and Performers: An Overview
• Illustration by Jennifer Whiting
• Tortilleras on the Prairie: Latina Lesbians Writing in the Midwest
• The Role of Carmelita Tropicana in the Performance Art of Alina Troyano
• Moving La Frontera Towards a Genuine Radical Democracy in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Work
• Illustration by Jennifer Whiting
• Como Sabes, Depresión
• To Sor Juana
• Illustration by Jennifer Whiting
• Lesbianism and Caricature in Griselda Gambaro’s Lo impenetrable
• Illustration by Jennifer Whiting
• The (In)visible Lesbian: The Contradictory Representations of Female Homoeroticism in Contemporary Spain
• Illustration by Jennifer Whiting
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

María Dolores Costa, PhD, is Professor of Spanish at California State University, Los Angeles, where she mostly teaches heritage learners of Spanish. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her BA and MA from Kent State University. Her area of specialization is nineteenth and twentieth century narrative. She has taught courses on women’s writing, the literature of the Spanish Civil War, nature in Spanish literature, and spirituality in Spanish literature. She has published articles and delivered papers on numerous topics, including feminism and ecofeminism, pedagogy, Chicano and Hispanic films, Spanish gay and lesbian writers, and Spanish authors Federico Garcia Lorca, Rosalía de Castro, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Julio Camba, Arturo Barea, and Benito Pérez-Galdós. She is currently working on a book about Spanish nature writing from Romanticism to the present. She has also published several book reviews, predominantly on lesbian themes. Beyond her academic pursuits, she is involved with the Quaker faith, and has published some pieces in Quaker publications.