Description
Printed material relating to the Mujeres
Activas en Letras Y Cambio Social' Summer Institute and
Conference
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errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research
center at www.chicano.ucla.edu
Background
Norma E. Cantú currently serves as Professor of English at the
University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. from the
University of Nebraska,Lincoln. She is the editor of a book series, Rio
Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition, at Texas A&M
University Press and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Author of the
award-winning Canícula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera,
and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, she has just
finished a novel, Cabañuelas. She is currently working on another
novel tentatively titled Champú, or Hair Matters. She is also
working on an ethnography, forthcoming from the Texas A&M University
Press, a study of the Matachines de la Santa Cruz, a religious dance
tradition in Laredo. Her areas of Specialization are Literary Criticism,
Folklore, Women's Studies, Border Studies, Chicano Literature, 20th
Century American Literature.
Restrictions
For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by
permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies
Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the
Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research
Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained.
Availability
Access is available by appointment for UCLA student and faculty
researchers as well as independent researchers. To view the collection
or any part of it, please contact the archivist at
archivist@chicano.ucla.edu or the librarian at yretter@chicano.ucla.edu