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Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena Maria Viramontes Critical Reader

Helena MarAa Viramontes is a professor, scholar-activist, and renowned author of works of fiction and nonfiction. Get Rebozos de Palabras literature books for free.
Her work has been anthologized and is read widely in the United States and abroad. For many of her readings and speaking engagements she arrives wearing a rebozo, a shawl worn by Mexican and Chicana women living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Once, when asked about her rebozo, Viramontes explained that the pre-Columbian icon is her "security blanket," which she embraces in order to find comfort. For her readers, her writing functions like a "rebozo de palabras," a shawl woven with words that nurture.

As Gabriella GutiArrez y Muhs points out in her insightful introduction, not only has Viramontes's work Check Rebozos de Palabras our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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Her work has been anthologized and is read widely in the United States and abroad. For many of her readings and speaking engagements she arrives wearing a rebozo, a shawl worn by Mexican and Chicana women living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Once, when asked about her rebozo, Viramontes explained that the pre-Columbian icon is her "security blanket," which she embraces in order to find comfort. For her readers, her writing functions like a "rebozo de palabras," a shawl woven with words that nurture er work has been anthologized and is read widely in the United States and abroad. For many of her readings and speaking engagements she arrives wearing a rebozo, a shawl worn by Mexican and Chicana women living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Once, when asked about her rebozo, Viramontes explained that the pre-Columbian icon is her "security blanket," which she embraces in order to find comfort. For her readers, her writing functions like a "rebozo de palabras," a shawl woven with words that nurture.

As Gabriella GutiArrez y Muhs points out in her insightful introduction, not only has Viramontes's work

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