Contents
A Few Words of Thanks
Introduction: The Use of the Word
1. Wanted, Dead (to the World): Autobiographical Narratives by Colonial Nun Authors Geronima Nava y Saavedra and Ursula Suarez
2. Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases against the Ilusas Teresa de Jesus and Barbara de Echegaray
3. En/gender/ing the Racialized Other, Re/Writing Indigenist Narrative: Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido and Gomez de Avellaneda's Guatimozin and "El cacique de Turmeqe?'
4. In Search of a Foremother: Silvina Bullrich and Magda Portal on Flora Tristan
5. Mothers in the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions: Nellie Campobello, Magdalena Mondragon, and Dora Alonso
6. "Quiero aportar un granito de arena": Collaborative Political Text Making by Dominga de la Cruz and Domitila Barrios Chungara
7. Making Historia (HistorylHer Story): Elvira Orphee's No Women's Zone and Marta Traba's Women's Zone
A Final Note
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index