Voces sin fronteras / Voices without Frontiers: Antologia Vintage Espanol de literatura mexicana y chicana contemporánea

by Cristina García

A medida que los descendientes de inmigrantes mexicanos se han ido estableciendo por todo Estados Unidos, ha surgido una gran literatura, pero sus similaridades con la literatura de México han pasado inadvertidas. En Voces sin fronteras , la primera antología que combina la literatura de ambos lados de la frontera méxico-americana, Cristina García nos presenta un diálogo intercultural de una rica diversidad.

Voces históricas de maestros mexicanos como Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska y Juan Rulfo se entrelazan contínuamente con voces magistrales de chicanos como Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya y Gloria Anzaldœa para formar una vibrante tela bilingüe y bicultural. El resultado es esta memorable colección de obras de ficción, ensayos y poesía que brinda una perspectiva emocionantemente nueva de nuestro continente —y de la mejor literatura contemporánea.

Genres: Anthologies, Short Stories, Spanish Literature, Feminism, Poetry, Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

After working for Time Magazine as a researcher, reporter, and Miami bureau chief, García turned to writing fiction. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban (1992), received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. Her fourth novel, A Handbook to Luck, was released in hardcover in 2007 and came out in paperback in April 2008.

Reviews

[Allison Wonderland · Rating 3 out of 5]

The chapter "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua was fascinating. It indirectly explained why in the movie Napoleon Dynamite the Mexican guy who drove Napoleon to the dance says "Simon" when asked if he's "Pedro's cousin with all the sweet hook-ups." Originally, it seemed like an odd response, but now I know that simon means yes in the Pachuco dialect of Chicano Spanish. It's probably nothing you'd ever learn taking high school or college Spanish, because it is slang, but that's why I really liked this chapter.

(I have more to write about this book, but I don't have time right now. More later.)

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I knew going into it that it only contained samples of writing... But I was left wanting more! So my reading list grows ;)

[Mills College Library]

860.80972 B728 2006

[Morbid Swither · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best anthology. Containing some exceptional and awesome entries for sure! I’m displeased by the number of instances long fictional prose works are excerpted. I also wished for this to shed more light into the obscure and onto the untranslated, but found it to be just a tad essentialist and remediate, with major poets really underrepresented, furthermore the poets who did find their way into this Reader got way too few pages commuted to them. What made this worth a read were the short stories, namely: “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldúa and “Hagiography of the Apostate” by Ignacio Padilla.

[Imelda · Rating 4 out of 5]

La única razón por la que le di cuatro estrellas es porque incluyeron un ensayo del insufrible acomplejado de Richard Rodríguez. No leí su ensayo. Me niego rotundamente a desperdiciar ni un segundo de mi vida leyendo las tonterías que escribe Rodríguez. De ahí en fuera todo muy bien, todos los otros autores son tremendamente buenos.

[Bethtub · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a mix of absolutely fantastic pieces and some bland trudging ones. The strong pieces are so great it's worth the few misses inside. Beautifully lingual (about language) through beautiful language and imagery.

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a comprehensive collection of perspectives.

[Rafael]

Outstanding chapters:
Major Aranda's Hand
The Use of Thought
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Maria de Covina
Hagiography of the Apostate

[Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Las antologIas son buenas guias a conocer nuevos libros, y después de ésta quiero leer ¨Hunger of Memory¨ de Richard Rodriguez.