Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Alicia Gaspar de Alba is professor of Chicano studies and English, University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders.

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Sor Juana's Second Dream

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

This historically accurate and beautifully written novel explores the secret inclinations, subjective desires, and political struggles of the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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[Un]framing the "Bad Woman"

Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause

University of Texas Press

One of America’s leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that “frame” women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as “bad women” and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House

Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition

University of Texas Press

The first interdisciplinary cultural study of a major exhibition of Chicano/a art.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Making a Killing

Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera

University of Texas Press

Bringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis, this is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the murders of more than five hundred women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Our Lady of Controversy

Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”

University of Texas Press

An anthology of vibrant responses to Alma López’s controversial print Our Lady, exploring critical issues of censorship, religion, and the female body.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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