SAH Commons | Yolanda Padilla | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/yolanda/activity/ Activity feed for Yolanda Padilla. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e08afa13d15f1dda2a771d19b4a0a60c Yolanda Padilla deposited Latinx Culture and the Essay in the group US Latinx Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901368/ Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:00:07 -0400 Latinx authors have used the essay form for everything from personal recollection and spiritual reflection to cultural affirmation and aesthetic evaluation. However, given that Latinx communities find themselves in a perpetual state of crisis, whether because of immigration policies, racial conflicts, or other structural inequities, Latinx writers…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce816db51880bff49945da219080bcf2 Yolanda Padilla deposited Latinx Culture and the Essay https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901283/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:33:33 -0400 Latinx authors have used the essay form for everything from personal recollection and spiritual reflection to cultural affirmation and aesthetic evaluation. However, given that Latinx communities find themselves in a perpetual state of crisis, whether because of immigration policies, racial conflicts, or other structural inequities, Latinx writers…[Read more]

]]> 0 e938584b435d3af6d09100a374b68c65 Yolanda Padilla deposited "Introduction: The Practice of Latina Feminist Recovery" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893014/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:58:22 -0400 This collection of academic essays introduces new research on Latina histories and cultures from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980. Examining a wide range of source materials, including personal and institutional archives, literature and oral history, the authors of the fifteen articles use transnational approaches and Latina feminist theory to…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8f5a1e98507823f6ff2ebd8450937f6 Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1893012/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:41:50 -0400 0 fb7b9005aeb2db611ec782e1eb2f3ab3 Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677440/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:07:33 -0500 0 de67ad6590c6cb433b4cf1e7a83ead2b Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658193/ Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:48:20 -0400 0 282b9ac5ee4a8c88e477f66758a072b2 Yolanda Padilla deposited “Borderlands Letrados: La Crónica, the Mexican Revolution, and Transnational Critique on the US-Mexico Border” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657239/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:49:46 -0400 Angel Rama’s concept of the letrado refers to Latin American lettered individuals
who used writing to consolidate the nation. But what might it have meant to be a
letrado in the geopolitical context of the US-Mexico border in the early twentieth century,
one that combined territorial dispossession,migration, and revolution? This essay e…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca8525a22a607e3cd18a00934a1093ba Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657231/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:30:55 -0400 0 c2ae013947795ad59585af62f10254c7 Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624743/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:20:09 -0500 0 a32989e1cf82acd1e7a4e089c1c837dd Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623010/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:12:31 -0500 0 659d911f52423e46d47b74c8c343d74a Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622822/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:33:46 -0400 0 e68038535e26579da552c2d8c13b6f78 Yolanda Padilla deposited Mexican Americans and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622632/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 04:59:14 -0400 I examine how early twentieth-century Mexican American writers responded to the Mexican Revolution, arguing that they grappled with the war’s meanings and consequences in ways that were shaped by their positions as border subjects marginalized by and alienated from the national cultures of both Mexico and the United States. I read these Mexican A…[Read more]

]]> 0 53ab807de24f5fd741d0026d829478a4 Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas's The Rain God in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565191/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:14:07 -0400 This essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 786a9bba7ea3acbb299ab5365552bd1b Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas's The Rain God in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565190/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:13:38 -0400 This essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d51d9397138e77085fd650b7b2c8480 Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas's The Rain God in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565189/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:09:25 -0400 This essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 5be862fe76ee1c93f6525bcebd4e4661 Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas's The Rain God in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565188/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:00:02 -0400 This essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 40f30f24701c59dab248a3fc0e336668 Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas's The Rain God https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565111/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:04:43 -0400 This essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f946fed5efc038501afc51105c6a0dc Yolanda Padilla changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565073/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:26:20 -0400 0 61c8250390b5d10af37da643db365a2a Yolanda Padilla changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565072/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:23:37 -0400 0 d3ab9a94d9c3980261c9b05b7bdb04b6 Yolanda Padilla's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1564995/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:01:54 -0400 0 7b6a76c68262bf43755e9a24bd15d068 Yolanda Padilla deposited "Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now" in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564762/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 01:09:40 -0400 Introduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.

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]]> 0 47271171e360376449d6221edfaa7981 Yolanda Padilla deposited "Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1564692/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:02:00 -0400 Introduction to the edited volume “Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.”

]]> 0 776477c5a0fdd0b0fe06156fd46a82b8 Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Chicana/o Lit Forum in the discussion Twentieth-Century American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfps-mla-2017-chicanao-lit-forum/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:15:14 -0500 “Liberty Crack’d”

What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).

2. “La Raza y Gaza”

Papers engaging the political resonances of Palesti…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f696ab120ee1d14c3fbf1403156479f Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFP (MLA 2017): “25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-25-years-of-recovering-the-us-hispanic-literary-heritage/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:07:03 -0500 “25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage”

Special session proposed by the 19thc American LLC and the Chicana and Chicano LLC

Papers considering past contributions, archival silences, and future prospects of the Hispanic Recovery Project with interest on dissensus or dialogue with other currents in the long American 19th c…[Read more]

]]> 0 80175e69a91d1e91e730167033b5f1a4 Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): "Teaching Borderlands at 30" in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/chicanao-literature-division-cfp-mla-2017-teaching-borderlands-at-30/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:52:43 -0500 “Teaching Borderlands at 30”

As we commemorate the thirty-year anniversary of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands we invite papers that address how we teach this genre-blurring text. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu)

]]> 0 5cd7e38c18901547e0f49364b2adb68e Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “La Raza y Gaza” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/chicanao-literature-division-cfp-mla-2017-la-raza-y-gaza/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:50:43 -0500 “La Raza y Gaza”

Papers engaging the political resonances of Palestine for Chican@s. Intersections in various texts, teaching, or other topics. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu)

]]> 0 387cd6fb16b9ab8fb9398afe5a30cecc Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “Liberty Crack'd” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/chicanao-literature-division-cfp-mla-2017-liberty-crackd/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:48:03 -0500 “Liberty Crack’d”

What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).

]]> 0 3c5e6183ba7b685944be1ef36662d2cc Yolanda Padilla replied to the topic CFP responses in the forum Chicana/o Lit Division Executive Committee http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicanao-lit-division-executive-committee/forum/topic/cfp-responses/#post-1382 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:45:34 -0500 We got 5 submissions for the Cisneros panel, and three people asked me if they could have extensions until Monday. So hopefully we’ll have 8 in total.

For the anthologizing panel, how about Gabriela Ventura? […]

]]> 0 1d72d2c91041d2e2c86145f3c841abc3 Yolanda Padilla replied to the topic Blog? in the forum Chicana/o Lit Division Executive Committee http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicanao-lit-division-executive-committee/forum/topic/blog/#post-1186 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:10:44 -0500 Hi Everyone,

I’m in favor of allowing non-members to join the group.

Am happy to have la bloga posts connected to our page.

I’m interested in a blog, but am also concerned about the time constraints that […]

]]> 0 18bf2b545a5c29c36ca2cb61e97cfb46 Yolanda Padilla replied to the topic Announcement? in the forum Chicana/o Lit Division Executive Committee http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicanao-lit-division-executive-committee/forum/topic/announcement/#post-1155 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:28:07 -0500 PS Marissa, did you do the avatar for our group? I like it!

]]> 0 79d6d573c233da04b991e98aace6dd3b Yolanda Padilla replied to the topic Announcement? in the forum Chicana/o Lit Division Executive Committee http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicanao-lit-division-executive-committee/forum/topic/announcement/#post-1154 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:17:43 -0500 Hi Marissa,

I just posted a description and cfp. I invite everyone to join in on editing it.

I received the same digest that Sandy received.

Yolanda

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