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Ancestors: In Praise of the Imperishable |
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Suicid/ing (ed) Indian Women |
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42 | (1) |
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For Mama (and her mamas, too) |
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To Grandmother's House We Go |
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51 | (1) |
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Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent Well-Read Person, Could Believe In The War Between Races |
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africans sleeping in the park at night |
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We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra |
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55 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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What the Gypsy Said to Her Children |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (2) |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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In Her Solitude: The Inca Divining Spider (And) |
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I Done Got So Thirsty That My Mouth Waters at the Thought of Rain |
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82 | (3) |
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85 | (7) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (2) |
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On Writing Asian-American Poetry |
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95 | (3) |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (4) |
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Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe |
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109 | (4) |
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113 | (1) |
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My Father and the Figtree |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (4) |
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First Stop/City of Senses |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (3) |
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124 | (1) |
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Poem for Some Black Women |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (6) |
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130 | (5) |
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Defining the Grateful Gesture |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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In the Summer after ``Issue Year'' Winter (1873) |
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145 | (2) |
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147 | (1) |
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from ``The Iconography of Childhood'' |
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148 | (3) |
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151 | (2) |
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For an Asian Woman Who Says My Poetry Gives Her a Stomachache |
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153 | (1) |
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The Handbook of Sex of the Plain Girl |
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154 | (3) |
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| Short Stories |
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157 | (136) |
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159 | (10) |
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169 | (8) |
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177 | (10) |
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187 | (9) |
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196 | (4) |
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200 | (6) |
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from Black Is a Woman's Color |
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206 | (7) |
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At the Bottom of the River |
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213 | (8) |
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221 | (8) |
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229 | (7) |
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236 | (10) |
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246 | (10) |
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256 | (7) |
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Georgiana Valoyce Sanchez |
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263 | (13) |
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276 | (8) |
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284 | (4) |
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288 | (5) |
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| Drama |
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293 | (138) |
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295 | (15) |
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Hospice: A Play in One Act |
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310 | (21) |
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Shango Diaspora: An African-American Myth of Womanhood and Love |
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331 | (27) |
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The Day of the Swallows: A Drama in Three Acts |
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358 | (33) |
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391 | (40) |
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| Cultural Narratives |
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Cultural Narratives and Critical Perspective |
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433 | (1) |
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434 | (6) |
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``You May Consider Speaking about Your Art'' |
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440 | (5) |
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Some Lines for a Younger Brother |
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445 | (3) |
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Homeplace (a site of resistance) |
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448 | (6) |
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454 | (8) |
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462 | (23) |
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485 | (7) |
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Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation |
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492 | (6) |
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Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination |
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498 | (13) |
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An Oral History (Testimonio) |
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511 | (5) |
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Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso |
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
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516 | (7) |
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Fire and Ice (Some Thoughts on Property, Appearance, and the Language of Lawmakers) |
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523 | (8) |
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531 | (7) |
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Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman |
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538 | (9) |
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| Critical Perspectives |
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Something Sacred Going On out There: Myth and Vision in American Indian Literature |
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547 | (13) |
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La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness |
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560 | (13) |
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The Highs and the Lows of Black Feminist Criticism |
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573 | (5) |
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Defining Black Feminist Thought |
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578 | (22) |
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Defining Asian American Realities through Literature |
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600 | (19) |
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The Dilemma of the Modern Chicana Artist and Critic |
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Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo |
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Playfulness, ``World''-Travelling, and Loving Perception |
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626 | (12) |
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The Politics of Poetics: Or, What Am I, a Critic, Doing in This Text Anyhow? |
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638 | (8) |
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The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s |
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646 | (25) |
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Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the ``Other'' |
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671 | (17) |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (121) |
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from Black Is a Woman's Color |
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206 | (242) |
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42 | (135) |
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73 | (7) |
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80 | (29) |
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109 | (249) |
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121 | (4) |
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93 | (2) |
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An Oral History (Testimonio) |
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I done Got So Thirsty That My Mouth Waters at the Thought of Rain |
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82 | (10) |
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92 | (121) |
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At the Bottom of the River |
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98 | (4) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (523) |
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Playfulness, ``World''-Travelling, and Loving Perception |
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Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation |
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236 | (10) |
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My Father and the Figtree |
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114 | (5) |
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First Stop/City of Senses |
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119 | (16) |
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130 | (5) |
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Defining the Grateful Gesture |
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135 | (511) |
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The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s |
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646 | (25) |
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Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the ``Other'' |
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140 | (4) |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (140) |
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284 | (232) |
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
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