Description: This innovative collection details critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Portraits of the authors are each examined by a noted scholar, who delves deep into the authors' lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. What results is a brilliant intersection of visual and literary arts that explores themes of sexism and misogyny, the fragility of life, Chicana agency, and more.
Review Quotes: "Chicana Portraits beautifully links Raquel Valle-Sentíes's portraits of twelve amazing Chicana writers with their critical biographies, focusing on their growth as artists, writers, activists, feminists, social justice warriors. This collection demonstrates the power of the written word and visual culture as Chicana feminist praxis."--C. Alejandra Elenes, author of Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy
"This collection gives an excellent overview of writers who have been highly instrumental in putting Chicana letters on the larger U.S. literary map."--T. Jackie Cuevas, author of Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique "Chicana Portraits is a powerful examination of the impetus and pilots behind the phenomenon of Chicana literature."--World Literature Today