This Wednesday, we are back to a conversation with a writer from the United States. Hablemos Escritoras proudly presents Estella Gonzalez with Isabel Ibañez. Este miércoles regresamos a las escritoras escribiendo desde Estados Unidos con una entrevista por Isabel Ibañez y el gusto de tener a Estella González. La conversación es en inglés and you will love it. Estella González is the author of the award-winning short story collection, Chola Salvation (Arte Público Press, 2021), Kweli Journal, Huizache, Asteri(x) Journal, and other literary journals have also published her work. Would you think on Frida Kahlo and Virgen de Guadalupe as "cholas"? Listen to this conversation and you will see how this book pays tribute to these female figures.
Estella González es chicana de primera generación nacida y criada en el este de Los Ángeles. Cuenta con un B.A. en inglés de la Universidad Northwestern y su MFA en ficción de la Universidad de Cornell. Su trabajo ha sido publicado por Kweli Journal, Huizache, Asteri(x) Journal y otras revistas literarias. Su poesía ha sido incluida en antologías como What They Leave Behind: A Latinx Anthology (Bowker, 2021) y Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017). Sus historias han obtenido numerosas ...
Sandra Cisneros es una de las grandes voces de la literatura mexicana-americana en los Estados Unidos. Poeta, cuentista, novelista, ensayista, performer y artista cuya obra explora la vida de varias generaciones de migrantes de raíces mexicanas y latinoamericanos en su vida cotidiana. Nacida en Chicago, Illinois, de padre mexicano, y madre mexicana-americana, Cisneros se define como una ciudadana estadounidense con raíces mexicanas. Desde pequeña comenzó con su pasión por la lectura, en 1976, recibió su bachillerato (BA) en escritura del idioma ...
What They Leave Behind is a collection of over 50 Latinx poets whose work bridges past and present to embody a new reality that celebrates the diaspora and all its complexities. Whether it’s through reclaiming language and learning to roll the r’s in our words, or by tracing the lineage from mother to daughter through bowls of masa and dirt, these poems serve the strongest cup of café con leche and demand we see ourselves as proud remnants of strawberry pickers, lotería players, hood healers, barrio prophets, and dreamers. They are the voices of a people ...
In the title story of this collection, Isabela is minding her family’s restaurant, drinking her dad’s beer, when Frida Kahlo and the Virgen de Guadalupe walk in. Even though they’re dressed like cholas, the girl immediately recognizes Frida’s uni-brow and La Virgen’s crown. They want to give her advice about the quinceañera her parents are forcing on her. In fact, their lecture (don’t get pregnant, go to school, be proud of your indigenous roots) helps Isabela to escape her parents’ physical and sexual abuse. But can she really run away from ...