Norma Elia Cantú

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Norma Elia Cantú is a Chicana postmodernist writer and a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

[edit] Education

Cantú received her A.A. degree from the Laredo Junior College, Laredo, Texas in 1970. She received her B.S. in English/ Political Science from Texas A&I University in Laredo, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1973. She received her M.S. in English with a minor in Political Science from Texas A&I University‑Kingsville, in 1976 and he Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1982.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books

• Forthcoming. Soldiers of the Cross: Los matachines de la Santa Cruz. Texas A&M University Press
• Co-editor with Inés Hernández Ávila, Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: Tejanas in Literature and Art. 2002
• Co-editor with Olga Najera Ramírez. Changing Chicana Traditions, University of Illinois Press. 2001
• Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios . Co-editor with the Latina Feminst Group. Individual pieces included: "Getting there cuando no hay camino," "A Working Class Brujas Fears," and two poems: "Migraine" and "Reading the Body." Duke University Press.*Santuarios: Program Essay. The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Rockefeller Gateways Program Performance. 2000
• "Realidad Fronteriza" in Cariatides. 2000
• "Police Blotter," Colorado Review. 2000
• Canícula: Imágenes de una niñez fronteriza. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999* "Diamond," A Quien Corresponda, Revista Literaria, Cd. Victoria, Tamps. 1999
• "Tino" and "Perpetuo Socorro," in Aztlán in Viet Nam, University of California Press. 1998
• "Capirotada" in Stirring Prose, Texas A&M Press.1998
• "Adios en Madrid," Proyecto Scheherazade, electronic journal. 1998
• "El luto," in Ventana Abierta. 1998
• "Decolonizing the Mind" and "Trojan Horse" in Floricanto Sí: U.S. Latina Poetry. New York: Penguin. 1998
• Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, paperback edition.1997
• "Bailando y Cantando," short story, "Las diosas," "Decolonizing the Mind," and "Fiestas de diciembre," poems in Blue Mesa Review, number 9, University of New Mexico. 1997
• "Letters Home/Letters from Home," sporadic column of poetry and prose in the monthly LareDOS. 1996.
• "Tino" and "Papi," in In Short. Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. New York: Norton. 1995
• Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
• "Nebraska Family: A Tryptich," Nebraska Humanist.1994
• Chapters 42-44 from Canícula and "Action, Thought, Spirit"(poem) in Prairie Schooner.1992 *"Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera," in The Texas Humanist
• "Se me enchina el cuerpo al oir tu cuento" short story New Chicano/a Literature, University of Arizona Press.
• "Unemployed", poem, Huehuetitlan. 1983
• "Untitled", poem, Huehuetitlan. 1983

[edit] Book Reviews

• 1995 Fiesta, fe, y cultura, in American Folklore Society Journal.
• 1995 Carry Me Like Water in The Washington Post, Book World..
• 1995 My History Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography, in Western Historical Quarterly.
• 1993 No Short Journeys: The Interplay of Culture in the History and Literature of the Borderlands, in Western Historical Quarterly.
• 1992 Footlights Across the Border: A History of Spanish Language Professional Theater on the Texas Stage, Journal of Popular Culture.
• 1991 Mixed Blessings, in Texas Humanist, Spring.
• 1984 Woman of Her Word, in La Red/The Net.
• 1984 Cuentos: Stories by Latinas, in La Red/The Net.
• 1979 Chicano Voices, in English in Texas.
• 1978 Selina, in Prairie Schooner.
• 1978 César Chávez: Autobiography of La Causa, in Prairie Schooner.

[edit] External links

• Norma Cantú's homepage
• Norma Cantú's Amazon Personal Page with links to reviews.

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