Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers

Artist Raquel Valle-Sent獯s's portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors' lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. The collection brilliantly intersects artistic visual and literary cultural productions, allowing complex themes to emerge, such as the fragility of life, sexism and misogyny, Chicana agency and forging one's own path, the struggles of becoming a writer and battling self-doubt, economic instability, and political engagement and activism.

Arranged chronologically by birth order of the authors, the book can be read cover to cover for a genealogical overview, or scholars and general readers can easily jump in at any point and read about an individual author, regardless of the chronology.

Biographies included in this work include Raquel Valle-Sent獯s, Angela de Hoyos, Montserrat Fontes, Gloria E. Anzald, Norma E. Cant? Denise Elia Ch嫛ez, Carmen Tafolla, Cherr獯 Moraga, Ana Castillo, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sandra Cisneros, and Demetria Mart璯ez.

Contributors
Cordelia E. Barrera
Mary Pat Brady
Norma E. Cant?
Mar燰 Jesus Castro Dopacio
Carlos Nicol嫳 Flores
Myrriah G鏔ez
Maria Magdalena Guerra de Charur
Gabriella Guti廨rez y Muhs
Georgina Guzm嫕
Cristina Herrera
Mar燰 Esther Quintana
Eliza Rodr璲uez y Gibson
Meagan Solomon
Lourdes Torres
Raquel Valle-Sent獯s
Jen Y摙ez-Alaniz