{"product_id":"telling-border-life-stories-donna-m-kabalen-de-bichara-9781603448048","title":"Telling Border Life Stories: Four Mexican American Women Writers Volume 18","description":"Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest.Until recently, little attention has been paid to the writing of the women included in this study. As Kabalen de Bichara notes, it is precisely such historical exclusion of texts written by Mexican American women that gives particular significance to the reexamination of the five autobiographical works that provide the focus for this in-depth study.\"Early Life and Education\" and \u003ci\u003eDew on the Thorn\u003c\/i\u003e by Jovita González (1904-83), deal with life experiences in Texas and were likely written between 1926 and the 1940s; both texts were published in 1997. \u003ci\u003eRomance of a Little Village Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1955, focuses on life in New Mexico, and was written by Cleofas Jaramillo (1878-1956) when the author was in her seventies. \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful, Cruel Country\u003c\/i\u003e, by Eva Antonio Wilbur-Cruce (1904-98), introduces the reader to history and a way of life that developed in the cultural space of Arizona. Created over a ten-year period, this text was published in 1987, just eleven years before the author's death. \u003ci\u003eHoyt Street\u003c\/i\u003e, by Mary Helen Ponce (b. 1938), began as a research paper during the period of the autobiographer's undergraduate studies (1974-80), and was published in its present form in 1993.These border autobiographies can be understood as attempts on the part of the Mexican American female autobiographers to put themselves into the text and thus write their experiences into existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1603448047\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603448048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2014","brand":"Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453809733887,"sku":"9781603448048","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e59f687c-d111-48bd-9849-09d7245ba1f1.jpg?v=1777302436","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/telling-border-life-stories-donna-m-kabalen-de-bichara-9781603448048","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}