How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Julia Alvarez

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Abalos, David. La Comunidad Latina in the United States: Personal and Political Strategies for Transforming Culture. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.

Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare: Essays. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.

Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic, eds. The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Fusco, Coco. English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas. New York City: New Press, 1995.

Kafka, Phillipa. "Saddling La Gringa": Gatekeeping in Literature by Contemporary Latina Writers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Kevane, Bridget, and Juanita Heredia. Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

McCracken, Ellen. New Latina Narrative. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Romero, Mary, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Vilma Ortiz, eds. Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. New York: Routledge, 1997.

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