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Writing in netantla: a celebrated Chicana author goes to the border.

Publication: Colorlines Magazine
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Writing in netantla: a celebrated Chicana author goes to the border.(TRANSFORMATIONS)(Ana Castillo)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
YET ANOTHER VOICE is weighing in on the fate of la frontera these days--but it's a poet, not a pundit. In her latest novel, The Guardians, the multi-genre writer Ana Castillo takes a look at life on the U.S.-Mexico border with sensitivity and imagination--qualities often sorely lacking in the immigration debate today. Told through the eyes of several characters, The Guardians explores the politics of the border with irony, lyricism and desert-spare clarity.

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Dubbed "the most daring and experimental of Latino novelists," Castillo also coined the term Xicanisma, or Chicana feminism, in her Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on...

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