Memoir / Latin America

 

Killer Crónicas
Bilingual Memories
Susana Chávez-Silverman
Foreword by Paul Allatson

Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as
Susana Chávez-Silverman, Paul Allatson, Silvia D. Spitta, Rafael Campo, Series Editors

An inventive, powerful, and funny memoir written in Spanglish

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in a humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible way in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author's inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chávez-Silverman.

Killer Crónicas includes a chapter that was awarded the el Andar Prize for Literary Excellence in the category of personal memoir.

Susana Chávez-Silverman is professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College in California. She is coeditor of Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad and Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture.

For more information contact Chris Caldwell, our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

For more information about Susana Chávez-Silverman and a press kit about this book, see Chávez-Silverman press kit.

the cover of Susana's book is illustrated by a photo collage of a hanging lamp, and some Spanish ironwork. Colors are orange, rust and light green.

October 2004
LC: 2004007801E
174 pp.  6 x 9
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-20220-0
Cloth $21.95 t


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