Publisher's Synopsis
Whether forced into the Latinx-Caribbean diaspora by global forces, or as a consequence of resisting authoritarian governments "at home," the sixteen acclaimed writer-activists in Women Writing Resistance: Essays from Latin America and the Caribbean are connected by their struggles against injustice. Originally published by South End Press in 2003, Women Writing Resistance gathers voices from various regions, such as writers from the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean; Chicanas negotiating the US-Mexico border; Puertorrique?as grappling with their hybrid American political identities; and Indigenous women fighting for sovereignty and cultural rights. Through poetry and essay, these contributors - including Gloria Anzald?a, the mother of Chicana queer theory; Rigoberta Mench?, the first Indigenous person to win a Nobel Peace Prize for social justice work; and Michelle Cliff, a searing and powerful chronicler of colonialism and racism - enact resistance to neoliberalism, state terrorism, and white supremacy.
