Detail from “Alleluia, 2012” by Claudia D. Hernández
The writing in this issue of the journal is divided into two parts, combining critical and creative work that does the work of articulating themes familiar to Chicana/Latina Studies: how we articulate our voices and find our homes, the work of memory and history, and the ways in which our lived experiences inform our intellectual, creative, and activist work.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Claudia D. Hernández
A Latina/Chapina Artist Speaks Through Poetry and Photography
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson and Josie Méndez-Negrete
No Straight Lines Here: Cartographies of Home
ESSAYS
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Mapping Spaces, Marking Time: Transnational Subjectivity, Home, and Family in Stories by Manuel Muñoz and Sandra Cisneros
Laurie Ann Guerrero
School Among the Ruins: An Afternoon with Adrienne Rich, Hotel Northampton, 2006
William A. Calvo-Quirós
The Politics of Color (Re)Significations: Chromophobia, Chromo-Eugenics, and the Epistemologies of Taste
Lilliana Patricia Saldaña
Memories of Schooling in the Field: From Barrio Scholarship Girl to Chicana Activist Scholar
POETRY
Deborah Paredez
Faith
Deborah Paredez
Mexican Spitfire, 1940
Deborah Paredez
Lady of the Pavements, 1929
Deborah Paredez
King Kong, 1933
Leticia Hernández-Linares
Abajo del Story
Leticia Hernández-Linares
Holy Mother
Leticia Hernández-Linares
Las Manos de la Peruana
Leticia Hernández-Linares
You Are Here
CREATIVE WRITING
Editor’s Commentary
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
Memory Is in the Heart and SER: L.A. vs. B.A.: An Introduction
Karen Anzoategui
From SER: L.A. vs. B.A.
Monica Palacios
From Memory Is in the Heart
IN REVIEW
Lisa Justine Hernández
How to Get a Girl Pregnant: Once Upon a Time There Was a Chicana Butch Who Could Do Anything
Roberta Hurtado
Gathering Parts: Olga R. Trujillo’s The Sum of My Parts and the Politics of Telling to Heal
Sonia R García
María, Daughter of Immigrants by María Berriozábal
