| The Mixquiahuala Letters Contributor(s): Castillo, Ana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385420137 ISBN-13: 9780385420136 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1992 Annotation: Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. Ana Castillo's groundbreaking first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Epistolary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91039230 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.35 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A wonderful, wonderful book. --Maxine Hong Kingston Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cort zar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. This groundbreaking debut novel received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict. |