Aunt Lute

The Judy Grahn Reader

Aunt Lute — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:00:14 +0000

Four decades of groundbreaking poetry, essays, plays, and more from the prolific writer and activist Judy Grahn.

The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two

Aunt Lute — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:00:22 +0000

An extensive collection of women's literature in the 20th century.

Me as her again

Aunt Lute — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:00:25 +0000

True stories of an Armenian-American daughter grappling with personal identity and family history.

Gulf Dreams

Aunt Lute — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:00:56 +0000

First published in 1996, Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a rural Texas town.

Alice Walker Banned

Aunt Lute — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:00:01 +0000

Throughout her distinguished career, Alice Walker's work has been at the center of controversies around language, censorship, truth and art.

The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers Volume One: 17th through 19th Centuries

Aunt Lute — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:00:23 +0000

From criminal confessions to political pamphlets to fiction, plays, poetry, and memoirs, the pages of this anthology are filled with the words of women who embody the complex history of this nation.

The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two

Aunt Lute — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:00:07 +0000

The story of U.S. literature in the twentieth century is in many ways the story of the hard won emergence of women's voices—all kinds of women's voices—into print. The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two is an unprecedented effort to capture, in all its scope and variety, the extraordinary results of that florescence.

Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers

Aunt Lute — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:00:12 +0000

The voices represented in this collection offer a broad and varied perspective on the Filipina writer whose diasporic existence can be traced to a common literary tradition.

Beautiful and Dark

Aunt Lute — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:00:43 +0000

Combining elements of the real and the fantastic, Beautiful and Dark (Bella y oscura) is written from the perspective of an orphaned girl taken to live with relatives in a derelict neighborhood at the edge of a city. Trying to cope with the mystery and violence of the adult world around her, she is drawn to the Lilliputian Airelei, who fascinates her with fantastic tales that mix myth and memory.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (3rd Edition)

Aunt Lute — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:00:01 +0000

Gloria Anzaldúa

Chosen as one of the “Best Books of 1987” by Library Journal

Selected by Utne Reader as part of its “Alternative Canon” in 1998

One of Hungry Mind Review’s “Best 100 Books of the 20th Century”

Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps understandings of what a “border” is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.

New to this edition:

Includes an Introduction by Sonia Saldívar-Hull; an interview with Gloria Anzaldúa; and contributions by Norma Alarcón, Julia Alvarez, Paola Bacchetta, Rusty Barcelo, Norma Elia Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, T. Jackie Cuevas, Claire Joysmith, and AnaLouise Keating.

The emotional and intellectual impact of the book is disorienting and powerful…all languages are spoken, and survival depends on understanding all modes of thought. In the borderlands new creatures come into being. Anzaldúa celebrates this “new mestiza” in bold, experimental writing.

—The Village Voice

Anzaldúa’s pulsating weaving of innovative poetry with sparse informative prose brings us deep into the insider/outsider consciousness of the borderlands; that ancient and contemporary, crashing and blending world that divides and unites America.

—Women’s Review of Books