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With this new Latino literary collection, Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-five engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write offers readers a wide array of works on a range of topics, including love and family, identity and belonging, immigration and the meaning of home.

With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-five engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write offers readers a wide array of works on a range of topics, including love and family, identity and belonging, immigration and the meaning of home. The resonant voices in this compilation reveal experiences that have been largely invisible until now.

The volume opens with a foreword by Julia Alvarez and includes short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, and personal essays and features work by established writers such as Angie Cruz and Nelly Rosario, alongside works by emerging writers. Narratives originally written in Spanish appear in English for the first time, translated by Achy Obejas. An important contribution to Latino/a studies, these writings will introduce readers to a new collection of rich literature.

Reviews

Daring to Write gathers in one volume and for the first time Dominican women writing across genres and against gender norms and borders of all kinds. The result is a moving and imaginative critique of how gender, race, and class intersect in the daily lives of women in the Dominican Republic and in the diaspora. This book is an important contribution to women's studies and Latino/a studies."" - Daisy Hernandez, coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism; ""Be prepared for a feast, and then, as with all such blessings of plenty, share it: tell others about this book, put it on your syllabi, on the shelves of your bookstores and libraries. Nourish yourself and others with the rich and savory ""sancocho"" of the work collected here. As we Dominicans say when a visitor arrives at mealtime, "" A buen tiempo!"" Readers, you have indeed come at a good time."" - Julia Alvarez, foreword; ""For teachers, this collection complicates and expands our understanding, and gives us insight into the lives and stories of Dominican women, including the ones in our classrooms, as well as those of their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and sisters. The book also makes new writers available to teachers, many of whom are published here for the first time in English. . . . The stories and narratives also provide wonderful models for young writers to begin telling the stories of their own lives. The book would be a great addition to any classroom library, as the real value of this collection will be realized when we make it available to our students. Erika Martinez created this book for the young woman she was, and for other young women like her, so that they could see themselves reflected in literature, partly so they could know they were not alone, but more importantly because she hoped to encourage them to speak in their own voices, to be inspired to also dare to write."" - Meg Petersen, National Writing Project; ""The anthology serves up more than a brief taste. It s a necessary and fully satisfying sampling of Dominican women's voices."" -Donna Miscolta, Seattle Review of Books

About the Author

Erika M. Martinez works with the National Writing Project in New Hampshire and is a staff member of their Invitational Summer Writing Institute. She has contributed to various anthologies, including Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Homelands: Women's Journeys across Race, Place, and Time. She lives in Oakland, California, USA.

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
Foreword   Julia Alvarez	p. xi
Introduction   Erika M. Martínez	p. 1
1	The people Who Love Me	
    Writing toward Forgiveness   Angie Cruz	p. 9
    Maribel and El Viejo   Jina Ortiz	p. 16
    The Big News   Delta Eusebio and Achy Obejas	p. 23
    The Day I Lost Melissa   Erika M. Martínez	p. 29
    The Immaculate Finger   Farah Hallal and Achy Obejas	p. 37
    Halfie   Ana-Maurine Lara	p. 44
    The Game of Exhaustion   Sheilly Núñez and Achy Obejas	p. 52
2	I'M Not From Here and I'M Not From There	
    Identidades/Identities   Rhina P. Espaillat	p. 61
    In Chinatown   Noeis Eusebio-Pol and Achy Obejas	p. 65
    The Yielding Paths   Ángela Hernández and Achy Obejas	p. 75
    Excerpt from Feasting on Sancocho before Night Falls, a Meditation   Nelly Rosario	p. 85
    An Heiress from Arroyo Hondo   Lissette Rojas and Achy Obejas	p. 93
    On Being a (Latina) Journalist   Juleyka Lantigua-Williams	p. 100
3	That's Not Me Anymore	
    The Intervention   Sofia Quintero	p. 107
    The Queen of Chá   Marivell Contreras and Achy Obejas	p. 118
    The Slandered   Jeannette miller and Achy Obejas	p. 124
    Papi   Leonor Suarez	p. 129
    Greñas   Kersy Corporan	p. 143
    Pero, M'ija, Where Did You Get That From?   Dulce María Reyes Bonilla	p. 147
4	The Countries Beyond	
    The Caribbean, or the Feminine Face of Multiculturalism   Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso	p. 159
    Saint Martha's Daughter in Madrid   Riamny Méndez and Achy Obejas	p. 164
    The Route   Ludin Santana and Achy Obejas	p. 173
    For a Mango   Miriam Mejía and Achy Obejas	p. 183
    Tía Milena/Milena Tía   Carolina González	
    The Day's List   Yalitza Ferreras	p. 195
Contributors	p. 207
Permissions	p. 213
Acknowledgments	p. 215