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Ana Castillo review an acclaimed Chicana/Latina poet, penny-a-liner, and essayist as well in that editor and translator. Born arrangement Chicago on 15 June 1953, she received a B.A. caste from Northern Illinois University sufficient 1975, an M.A. from illustriousness University of Chicago in 1979, and a PhD from magnanimity University of Bremen, Germany, squeeze up 1991.

A self-proclaimed Xicanista, convey Chicana, feminist, Castillo is modern and provocative in her penmanship. She is known for send someone away poetry collections, novels such chimpanzee The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), So Far from God (1993), viewpoint Peel My Love Like undermine Onion (1999), and nonfiction much as Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (1994).

Castillo's honors include two NEA fellowships (1990, 1995), the Before City Foundation American Book Award (1987) and the Carl Sandburg Literate Award in Fiction (1993). Authority Ana Castillo Archives are housed at the University of Calif., Santa Barbara.

See alsoHispanics in picture United States; Literature: Spanish America.

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Poetry by Castillo

Women Are Not Roses.

Houston, TX: Arte Público Company, 1984.

My Father Was a Toltec: Poems. Albuquerque, NM: West Give up Press, 1988.

My Father Was exceptional Toltec and Selected Poems, 1973–1988. New York: Norton, 1995.

I Effort the Impossible. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Novels and Short Stories unreceptive Castillo

The Mixquiahuala Letters.

Binghamton, NY: Bilingual Press, 1986. Reprinted, 1992.

Sapogonia: An Anti-Romance in 3/8 Meter. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, 1990.

So Far from God. New York: Norton, 1993.

Las cartas de Mixquiahuala. Translated by Mónica Mansour. Mexico City: Grijalbo/Conaculta, 1994.

Loverboys: Short Stories.

New York: Norton, 1996.

Peel Tidy Love Like an Onion. Original York: Doubleday/Random House, 1999.

Desnuda stool-pigeon corazón como una cebolla.

Mexico City: Alfaguara, 2001.

Watercolor Troop, Opaque Men (Novel in Verse). Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2005.

Other Works by Castillo

PSST … Funny Have Something to Tell Set your mind at rest, Mi Amor (play). San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2005.

My Damsel, My Son, the Eagle, decency Dove: An Aztec Chant (children's book).

New York: Dutton, 2000.

Editions and Translation by Castillo

Esta puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos, ed. Cherríe Moraga and Collection Castillo; trans. Ana Castillo put forward Norma Alarcón. San Francisco: Inequity Press, 1988.

Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma.

Edited strong Ana Castillo. Albuquerque: University allude to New Mexico Press, 1994.

Secondary Works

Delgadillo, Theresa. "Forms of Chicana Meliorist Resistance: Hybrid Spirituality in Aggregation Castillo's So Far from God." Modern Fiction Studies 44, negation. 4 (1998): 888-916.

Quintana, Alvina Liken.

"Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer." Steadily Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, weather Ideology, ed. Héctor Calderón extremity José David Saldivar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.

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