Hispanic, Female and Young

An Anthology

Author: Phyllis Tashlik
ISBN: 9781558850804

To be young, female and Latino in the kaleidoscopic world of New York City is the reality Phyllis Tashlik captured in this multifaceted volume. The voices that speak through its pages are Las Mujeres Hispanas, a group of Latina teenagers at Manhattan East, a public alternative school in New York City's El Barrio. They met throughout the course of a year to read and discuss their reactions to the works of renowned female Hispanic authors as well as the concerns born from their own identities. Individually and as a collectivity they went on to write poems, stories, essays and interviews with prominent Latinas. Hispanic, Female and Young: An Anthology, the result of these endeavors, is an anthology of both Las Mujeres creative efforts and the literature that inspired them. It combines the fresh perspectives of the younger women with those of such seasoned, prize-winning, authors as Loma Dee Cervantes, Judith Ortiz Coler, Roberta Fernandez, Nicholasa Mohr, Pat Mora and many more. The resul

Publisher: Pinãta Books
Publish Date: 1994-01-01

Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino, Juvenile Nonfiction / Girls & Women, Juvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & Collections, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Latinx/Chicanx)