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Book Description:

Should a work of literature provide a mirror for marginalized identity? Should it celebrate and preserve threatened culture? Should it be politically progressive? Should the writer aim for art, social improvement, or simple entertainment? Castillo tries to do it all--and for the most part succeeds. Storytelling skills and humor allow Castillo to integrate essay-like folklore sections (herbal curing, saint carving, cooking)--while political material (community organizing, toxic chemicals, feminism, the Gulf War) is delivered with unabashed directness and usually disarming charm. More... (© Kirkus Associates)

• Chicana/o Fiction from Resi stance to Contestation: The Role of Creation in Ana Castillo's So Far From God by Ralph E. Rodriguez
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• Rebellion and Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and Sylvia Lopez-Medina's Cantora by Silvio Sirias
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• Gritos desde la Frontera: Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Postmodernism by Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak
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• Hearing the Voices: Women and Home and Ana Castillo's "So Far From God" by Carmela Delia Lanza
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• The Cultural Politics of Dislocation and Relocation in the Novels of Ana Castillo by Roland Walter
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