Chicana (W)Rites: On Word and Film (Series in Chicana/Latina Studies)

Fiction. Since 1982 Maria Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes have been instrumental in bringing together the most salient artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, as well as literary and film critics in the field of Chicana Studies at the University of California at Irvine. The present volume weaves together, through original work and critique, the cultural production of some of the most important Chicana writers and filmmakers of our time.