The Cha Cha Files:: A Chapina Poética
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0988967383 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco, CA, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA, and is a VONA Voices and Dos Brujas workshop alum. Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz, Sinister Wisdom, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies, Cipactli Journal, and The Lunada Literary Anthology, and is quoted (and misquoted) in essays,
Beautifully written, passionate, funny and thought-provoking The work of Maya Chinichilla in The Cha Cha Files proved to be incredibly thought-provoking, passionate, and entertaining. Her identity as a Central American of Guatemalan and Mayan decent growing up in America, allows her, “to make up what it means to be Guatemalan-hyphen-American&rd. For anyone interested in Latinidad, Women's Issues, Central Americanism, Feminism, and Poetry Gavi I was assigned to write a synopsis on a book that covers a wide range of topics for my Women's Studies/Latina Issues course. Most students chose novels, but as a daughter of a Chicano father, and Salvadoran mother, I wanted to choose something that not only spoke to my generation, but also
These poems, stories, and snapshots traverse California coastlines and southern borderlines, cut across tense multi-culti high-school hallways, sing Solidarity Movement songs, mosh through tribal slam pits, and find home in the vibrant Bay Area where radical activists and lovers alike come of age. The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética by Maya Chinchilla is a timely debut that makes visible the Central American-Guatemalan diaspora and disentangles the myths from the mayhem of civil wars, urban wars, and the wars ra
She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. She writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory, heartbreak, tenderness, sexuality, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy, witty, performative, and self-aware— draws on a tradition o