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Norma E. Cantú, Ph.D.
Professor/ Ph.D. Graduate Advisor of Record
Publications
Books, Novels, Poetry, Short Fiction, Personal Essay
Single author:
Papeles de mujer (novel)
Champú: or Hair Matters (novel)
Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Life, Love and Work (poetry)
Co-editor:
La Pluma Pintada: Critical and Creative work on the Life of José Antonio Burciaga. Co-edited with Gabriella Guiterrez y Muhs at Seattle University
Sylviana Wood and her Plays. Co-edited with Rita Urquijo Ruiz
Flor y ciencia: Chicanas in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Editor. The Adelante Project, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Adelante Project, 2006.
“Adios in Madrid,” short story in Paralelo Sur Revista de Arte y Literatura, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
“Whose Story Is It Anyway? Autobiography on the Border” in Beginning a New Millennium of Chicana and Chicano Scholarship: Selected Proceedings of the 2001 NACCS Conference. Jamie H. García, ed. San Jose, CA: National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2006.
Oboler, Suzanne and Deena González, eds. Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino and Latina Studies. Boston: Oxford University Press. Editor and author: “Santa Fe Style,” “Paper Arts,” “Parades and Processions,” and other entries. 2005.
“Muy Macho! The Construction of Chicano Masculinity” in Manly Traditions: The folk roots of American masculinities, ed. Simon Bronner (2005)
Forthcoming:
Soldiers of the Cross: Los matachines de la Santa Cruz. Texas A&M University Press (forthcoming)
Locke, Liz and Theresa A. Vaughan, eds. forthcoming. Women's Folklore and Folklife: An Encylopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Associate Editor and author of entries. (forthcoming)
Dancing Across Borders. (anthology of essays, co-edited with Olga Nájera-Ramírez and Brenda Romero) in press, University of Illinois Press (forthcoming)
Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: Tejanas in Literature and Art. Co-edited with Inés Hernández Ávila at UC Davis, University of Texas Press (forthcoming)
Meditación
Fronteriza: Poems of Life, Love and Work, in progress.
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, co-edited with Olga Nájera Ramírez.
University of
Illinois Press, 2002.
“Dreaming of
Hummingbirds and Rattlesnakes: Impressions of a Tejana in Idaho,” in
Latinos in
Idaho
Humanities Council, 2002.
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. Co-editor with the Latina Feminist Group. Individual
pieces include: “Getting there cuando no hay camino,” “A Working
Class Bruja’s Fears,” and two poems: “Migraine” and “Reading
the Body.” Duke University Press, 2001.
Santuarios: Program Essay.
The
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Rockefeller Gateways Program,
Performance, 2001.
“Realidad Fronteriza” short essay in Cariátides, 2000.
“Police Blotter,” short stories in Colorado Review, 2000.
Canícula: Imágenes de una niñez fronteriza.
Trans.,
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2000.
“Diamond,” A Quien Corresponda, Revista Literaria, Cd.
Victoria, Tamps,
1999.
“Tino” and
“Perpetuo Socorro,” in
Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War,
University of California Press, 1999.
“Capirotada” in
Stirring Prose,
Texas
A&M
University
Press, 1998.
“Adios en Madrid,” Proyecto Scheherazade, electronic journal, 1998.
“El
luto,” in Ventana Abierta, 1998.
“Decolonizing the
Mind” and “Trojan Horse” in
Floricanto Sí: U.S. Latina Poetry. New York: Penguin,
1998.
Canícula:Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera. Albuquerque:
University of New
Mexico Press, paperback edition, 1997.
“Bailando y
Cantando,” short story, “Las diosas,” “Decolonizing the Mind,” and
“Fiestas de diciembre,” poems in
Blue Mesa Review, number 9, University of New Mexico,
1997.
“Letters
Home/Letters from Home,” sporadic column of poetry and prose in the
monthly LareDOS.
“Tino” and “Papi,”
in
In Short. Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. New
York: Norton, 1996.
Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera.
Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Excerpts from
Canícula and “Action, Thought, Spirit”(poem) in Prairie
Schooner, 1994.
“Snapshots of a
Girlhood en la frontera,” in The Texas Humanist, 1992.
“Se me enchina el
cuerpo al oir tu cuento” short story New Chicano/a Literature,
University of
Arizona Press,
1992.
“Unemployed”
poem, Huehuetitlan, 1984.
“Untitled” poem,
Huehuetitlan, 1983.
Journal
Articles/Chapters in Books
"Adios en Madrid" in Antología del Cuento Chicano, Gran Vía Edizioni, Milan, Italy
“Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life” in Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape and Academic Identity. eds. Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman. Utah State University, 2007.
Flor y ciencia: Chicanas in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Editor. The Adelante Project, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006.
“Adios in Madrid,” short story in Paralelo Sur, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
“Muy Macho! The Construction of Latino Masculinity” in Manly Traditions, ed. Simon Bronner. 2006.
“Whose Story Is It Anyway? Autobiography on the Border” in Beginning a New Millennium of Chicana and Chicano Scholarship: Selected Proceedings of the 2001 NACCS Conference. Jamie H. García, ed. San Jose, CA: National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. 2004.
“Montserrat
Fontes,” in Reading Latina Writers: a Remapping of American
Literature,
Temple
Univ.
Press
“Pastoras and
Malinches: Women in Traditional Folk Drama.” Vol. 5 of the
Recovering the U.S. Literary Heritage Project, University of
Houston, Arte Público Press
“Breaking
Boundaries, Finding Forms: Writing Canícula,” in
Chicana
Feminisms: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2003.
“Quinceañera” in
Punto de Vista, a column on a Latino arts and culture
website, 2003.
“Centering the
Margins: A Chicana in the English Classroom.” In
Race in the Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics. Eds. Bonnie
TuSmith and Maureen T. Reddy. Rutgers University Press, 2002.
“Western
Autobiography and Memoir: A Panel of Writers” In Western American
Literature Special Issue: Western Autobiography and Memoir.
Summer. Pp. 150-169, 2002.
“Power of Words,”
Sombrilla Essay (Winter), 2000.
“La Quinceañera:
towards an ethnographic analysis of a life-cycle ritual.”
Southern Folklore: 56. 1, 1999.
“La Virgen de
Guadalupe: Symbol of Faith and Devotion,” Familia, Fé y
Fiestas/Family, Faith and Fiestas: Mexican American Celebrations of
the
Holiday Season,
ArteAmericas and Fresno Arts Council, 1996.
“Desde el otro lado: Margarita Canseco del Valle, escritora
fronteriza,” in
Las Formas de Nuestras Voces: Chicana and Mexicana Writers in
Mexico, Claire Joysmith, ed. México, D.F.: Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, 1995.
“Los Matachines
de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera: Notes Toward a Socio Literary
Analysis,” in Feasts and Celebrations in U.S. Ethnic Communities.
Ramón Gutierrez, ed.
Albuquerque, NM:
University of New Mexico Press,1995.
“The wound that will not heal,” Program Book for the Festival of American Folklife. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1993
“Los
Matachines de la Santa Cruz: un acto de resistencia cultural,”
Mito y Leyenda Tijuana, BC: Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 1992.
“Costume as Cultural Resistance and Affirmation: The Case of a South Texas Community,” Texas Folklore Society, Hecho en Texas. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992.
“Mexican American
Quilting Traditions in Laredo, San Ygnacio and Zapata,” co-authored
with Ofelia Zapata, Hecho en
Texas.
Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992.
“The
Barrios of Laredo,” and “Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz,” Sí
Laredo, Laredo, TX, 1989.
“La
Pastorela,” Sí Laredo, Laredo, TX, Fall/Winter 1989.
Chicana Voices: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender,
on Editorial Board, introduction to literature section and plenary
paper, 1985.
“Tejanos Along
the Border,” The
Texas Humanist,
1983.
Translation of
two poems by Alfonsina Storni: “Eye" and “Fisherman,” Prairie
Schooner, 1979.
“My ‘Excuse‑me’ Tongue,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, in ERIC, 1979
Para
Niños From Two Cultures,
Texas A&I University at Laredo, 1973.
Reports
Latinos/as in the
South,
Southern Arts Federation, 2003.
Latino Folklife in Idaho—2000-01: A Survey of Idaho Latino
Traditonal Arts.
Idaho Comisión on the Arts (commissioned in 2000-01 but published
in 2003)
Book Reviews
Homegirls in the Public Sphere in National Women’s Studies Journal, 2005.
Fiesta, fé, y
cultura,
in American Folklore Society Journal, 1995.
Carry Me Like
Water
in The
Washington
Post,
Book World, 1995.
My History Not
Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography,
in Western Historical Quarterly, 1995.
No Short
Journeys: The Interplay of Culture in the History and Literature of
the Borderlands,
in Western Historical Quarterly, 1993.
Footlights Across
the Border: A History of Spanish Language Professional Theater on
the Texas
Stage,
in Journal of Popular Culture, 1992.
Mixed Blessings,
in
Texas
Humanist,
Spring 1991.
Woman of
Her Word,
in La Red/The Net, 1984.
Cuentos: Stories
by Latinas,
in La Red/The Net, 1984.
Chicano Voices,
English in
Texas,
1979.
Selena,
in Prairie Schooner, 1978.
César Chávez: Autobiography of La Causa, in Prairie, 1978.