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World Women Writers’, in Jennifer Browdy de Hernández
(ed.), Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and
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- Lorna Dee Cervantes, ‘Refugee Ship’, in Emplumada
(Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981 ), p. 41.
All subsequent references to this edition are given in the text. - Norma Alarcón, ‘The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge
Called My Back and Anglo American Feminism’, in Héctor
Calderón and José David Saldívar (eds), Criticism in the
Borderlands Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991 ), pp. 28 – 39
(p. 36 ). - Louis Reyes Rivera, ‘Introduction’, in Sandra María Esteves
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1980 ), p. xvii. - Juan Bruce-Novoa, cited in Nina M. Scott, ‘The Politics of
Language: Latina Writers in Unites States Literature and
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- See Chapter 3.