| Las Madrinas: Life Among My Mothers Contributor(s): Matiella, Ana Consuelo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1893003191 ISBN-13: 9781893003194 Publisher: Tres Chicas Books OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 116 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Ana Consuelo Matiella uses a unique brand of storytelling to reflect on her life and the lives of the women who influenced her. Each chapter deftly explores both personal experience and examination of primal archetypes in Hispanic femininity. Nevertheless, all women will recognize the kind of unavoidable female power she presents that interacts with both psyche and soul. Matiella's deft wit illuminates their force, significance, as well as inspiration. I have named these personal memories, LIFE AMONG MY MOTHERS, in honor and in gratitude for all my mothers, las madrinas who shaped me and showed me the different ways one can be a woman. Some of these memories are imprinted firmly and some of them elude me, but like my mother, I am a cuentera and whatever I didn't know, I made up. --Ana Consuelo Matiella |
Contributor Bio(s): Matiella, Ana Consuelo: - Ana Consuelo Matiella was born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and raised in Ambos Nogales by a clan of Spaniards and Mexicans. Her fondest memories are of spending late Sonoran afternoons with her mothers, tias and madrinas, drinking cafe con leche, listening to their stories and trying to make sense of the world. Ana Consuelo is a fotonovela producer and health communications consultant. Her first book was The Truth About Alicia and Other Stories, a Camino del Sol book published by the University of Arizona Press. She divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Portland, Oregon. |