PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
- An Ongoing Project
©
Paul
P. Reuben
(To send an
email, please click on my name above.)
Chapter 10: Late
Twentieth Century - Lorna Dee Cervantes (1954 - )
Outside Links: |
Heath
Anthology Introduction: LDC |
Voices
from the Gaps: LDC |
Page Links: | Primary
Works | Selected
Bibliography |
MLA Style Citation
of this Web Page |
Site Links: | Chap.
10: Index | Alphabetical
List | Table
Of Contents | Home
Page | June 10, 2009 |
Source: U
of Colorado Faculty Page: LDC
The information below is contributed
by
Patricia
Bostian
Central Piedmont Community College
Born in California, Lorna Dee
Cervantes is a Chicana poet with Indian ancestry. In her poetry
Cervantes attempts to bridge the gap between her Mexican heritage and
the Anglo world in which she lives.
| Top
| Primary Works
Emplumada (poems),
University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1981. PS3553.E79
E47
From
the Cables of Genocide: Poems of Love and Hunger,
Arte Publico Press (Houston, TX), 1991. PS3553 .E79 F7
| Top
| Selected Bibliography
Fernández,
Roberta. Dictionary of
Literary Biography, Volume 82: Chicano Writers, First Series. Detroit:
The Gale Group, 1989. 74-78.
Harris-Fonseca,
Amanda N. "Lorna Dee Cervantes (1954-)." in West-Durán, Alan
and others. eds. Latino and Latina Writers, I: Introductory
Essays, Chicano and Chicana Authors; II: Cuban and Cuban American
Authors, Dominican and Other Authors, Puerto Rican Authors. NY:
Scribner's, 2004.
Ikas,
Karin Rosa. Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana
Writers. Reno, NV: U of Nevada P,
2002.
McKenna,
Teresa. "'An Utterance More Pure Than Word': Gender and the Corrido
Tradition in Two Contemporary Chicano Poems." Feminist Measures:
Soundings in Poetry and Theory.
Eds. Lynn Keller and Cristianne Miller. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan
P, 1994 184-207.
Savin,
Ava. "Bilingualism and Dialogism: Another Reading of Lorna Dee
Cervantes's Poetry." An Other Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in the
Linguistic Borderlands. Ed.
Alfred Arteaga Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994. 215-23.
Vásquez,
Edith M. "The Body as Parchment in the Poetry of Lorna Dee
Cervantes." in Scott, Renée and Chiclana y González,
Arleen. eds. Unveiling the Body in Hispanic Women's Literature:
From Nineteenth-Century Spain to Twenty-First-Century United
States. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2006.
Yarbro-Bejarano,
Yvonne. "Chicana Literature from a Chicana Feminist Perspective."
Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in
American Literature. Eds. Maria
Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes. Houston: Arte Publico,
1988. 139-145.
MLA Style Citation
of this Web Page
Reuben, Paul P. "Lorna Dee
Cervantes." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A
Research and Reference Guide.
URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/cervantes.html
(provide page date or date of your login).
| Top
|