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Xicana Resources
by Lorna Dee Cervantes (2011)
“Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.” -- Publisher
Emplumada
by Sonia Sotomayor (2016)
"The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and initmacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself."-- Dust jacket.
My Beloved World
by Michele Serros (1998)
“From the white boy who transforms himself into a full-fledged Chicano, to the self-assured woman who effortlessly terrorizes her Anglo boss, to the junior-high friend who berated her "sloppy Spanish" and accused her of being a "Chicana Falsa," the people and places that Michele Serros brings to vivid life in this collection of poems and stories introduce a unique new viewpoint to the American literary landscape. Witty, tender, irreverent, and emotionally honest, her words speak to the painful and hilarious identity crises particular to the coming of age of an adolescent caught between two cultures.” -- Google Books
Chicana Falsa : And Other Stories of Death, Identity, & Oxnard
MEMOIRS
by Alma Luz Villanueva (1993)
“Alma Luz Villanueva is the quintessential feminist poet, continuously dedicated to her search for a universal female community. This celebration of all things feminine is an integral part of Planet, her newest collection of poems. It has been coupled with her previously published and critically acclaimed Mother, May I?, the groundbreaking autobiographical poem that recounts one woman's life of cyclic change and emergence to wholeness and hope as she redefines love and life and reexamines what it means to be female and male, juxtaposing ancient myths and the modern world.” -- Google Books
Planet with Mother, May I?
poetry
by Erika L. Sánchez (2017)
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American home.“ -- Google Books
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
novels
by Gabby Rivera (2016)
“Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that's going to help her figure out this whole "Puerto Rican lesbian" thing. She's interning with the author of her favorite book: Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate authority on feminism, women's bodies, and other gay-sounding stuff. Will Juliet be able to figure out her life over the course of one magical summer? Is that even possible? Or is she running away from all the problems that seem too big to handle? With more questions than answers, Juliet takes on Portland, Harlowe, and most importantly, herself.” -- WorldCat
Juliet Takes a Breath
by Sandra Cisneros (2013)
“Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life.” -- WorldCat
Caramelo, or Puro Cuento
by Isabel Quintero (2014)
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American home.“ -- Google Books
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
Eulogy for a Brown Angel
by Lucha Corpi (2002)
“Corpi brings a Chicana feminist perspective to the mystery genre and does so with enough originality to overcome some stilted and murky writing. The story begins when civil-rights activist Gloria Damasco discovers the body of a murdered child on an L.A. street during a Chicano demonstration in 1970. Damasco has a "dark gift," an uncontrollable extrasensory awareness that's stirred by this discovery and that will bring her back to investigate it time and again until the truth is finally revealed in 1988.” -- Kirkus Review
¡Caramba!: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card
by Nina Marie Martínez (2005)
“Natalie and Consuelo are like-minded individuals who live in Lava Landing, CA. When they aren’t working at The Big Cheese Plant, they get all dolled up for the racetrack, or go for at a tequila float at The Big Five Four. They urgently need to get Consuelo’s father out of Purgatory: he won’t stop turning up in women’s dreams until they do. But that means a trip to Mexico, and Consuelo still hasn’t gotten over her fear of long car rides. Inspired by La Loter’a, a Mexican game of chance not unlike bingo, the novel is a joyous story of mamacitas and mariachis, fiestas and tupperware parties, rodeos and Miss Magma beauty contests. In ¡Caramba! the American experience emerges in a brilliant new language and landscape, both touching and dazzlingly fresh.” -- Publisher
Gulf Dreams
by Emma Pérez (2009)
“[T]he story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood.” -- WorldCat
Under the Feet of Jesus
by Helena María Viramontes (2014)
“[P]resents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. This first novel tells the story a young girl, Estrella, and her Latino family as they struggle with arduous farm labor during the summer months, and still manage to latch onto the hope of a liberating future.” -- WorldCat
by Carla Trujillo (1994)
“Chicana Lesbians is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto—this book is yet another reason to believe—to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries, manifestoes, reasons to believe."— Dorothy Allison
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us
by Sandra Cisneros (1991)
“A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.” -- Google Books
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
short stories
by Nina Marie Martínez (2005)
“Natalie and Consuelo are like-minded individuals who live in Lava Landing, CA. When they aren’t working at The Big Cheese Plant, they get all dolled up for the racetrack, or go for at a tequila float at The Big Five Four. They urgently need to get Consuelo’s father out of Purgatory: he won’t stop turning up in women’s dreams until they do. But that means a trip to Mexico, and Consuelo still hasn’t gotten over her fear of long car rides. Inspired by La Loter’a, a Mexican game of chance not unlike bingo, the novel is a joyous story of mamacitas and mariachis, fiestas and tupperware parties, rodeos and Miss Magma beauty contests. In ¡Caramba! the American experience emerges in a brilliant new language and landscape, both touching and dazzlingly fresh.” -- Publisher
¡Caramba!: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card
MEMOIRS
POETRY
NOVELS
SHORT STORIES
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