{"product_id":"9780896087088","title":"Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchú, Cherríe Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Writing Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that \u003ci\u003eWomen Writing Resistance \u003c\/i\u003ehighlights, presenting \"conversations\" on the potential of writing to confront injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women’s literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Browdy de Hernandez\u003c\/b\u003e earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon’s Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"South End Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018533322992,"sku":"9780896087088","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780896087088_p0.jpg?v=1763858959","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780896087088","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}