Detail from “A Typical Mexican Girl, 2010″ by Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
This issue of Chicana/Latina Studies is grounded by the vital question: What does it mean to unearth voices and how do we do this? Whether we are scholars, administrators, literary or visual artists, working across the genres of critical analysis and creative thought, we both, individually and collectively, grapple with the process of coming into voice and speaking our stories. Artistic self-expression and critical analysis are highly politicized acts for they are constituted within a historical framework where our painting on canvas or with words has been forcibly controlled and denigrated on multiple levels.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
Unearthing and Recovering Memories in a Company Town: Litchfield Park, Arizona
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Tifffany Ana López and Josie Méndez-Negrete
Testimoniando and Unearthing Voices: Chicanas/Latinas Painting and Speaking Our Stories
ESSAYS
Ella Diaz
Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing and Performing Testimonio in Chicana/o and Latina/o Art
Annette Portillo
Writing Photomemories: Crossing Borders, Crossing Genres in Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
Susan C. Méndez
“Like a Dialect Freaked by Thunder:” Spiritual Articulations of Survival and Identity in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban and Monkey Hunting
Marci R. McMahon
Alma López’s California Fashion Slaves: Denaturalizing Domesticity, Labor, and Motherhood
POETRY
Lorna Dee Cervantes
100 Words to Your Secrets
Lorna Dee Cervantes
100 Words on Being Done
Lorna Dee Cervantes
100 Words After the Family of You
Lorna Dee Cervantes
100 Words to a Noisy You
luri Morales Lara
From Noisy Bones
luri Morales Lara
Spiral Notes
luri Morales Lara
Ode to Pulque
luri Morales Lara
La Vieja Luz
IN REVIEW
María Olivia Davalos Stanton
Thresholds of Personal and Communal Violence
Tifffany Ana López
Against Fear and Terror: Una Nueva Conciencia Sin Fronteras
