‘‘The War Cut Out My Tongue’’:
Domestic Violence, Foreign Wars, and
Translation in Demetria Martínez
by Laura Lomas
We always had a hard time getting the Atlacatl soldiers to
take prisoners instead of ears.—Visiting professor at the
School of the Americas, Newsweek, 26 January 1990
I refused to believe that what I was seeing was a pattern
of scars, the legend to the map of his life—1982, someone
had branded those numbers into his back.—Demetria
Martínez, Mother Tongue (1994)
This empire fears translation.—Amy Kaplan, presidential
address to the American Studies Association, 17 October 1983....
American Literature, Volume 78, Number 2, June 2006
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-006 © 2006 by Duke University Press
Following is a partial listing of critical articles in various
publications, including books, about Demetria's work. Contact her if you are
interested in posting something you have written.
ARTICLES:
2006 Poblete, Juan. "Traducción,
interculturalidad y formaciones lectoras: el caso de Mother
Tongue y la literatura latina en los Estados Unidos." (Interculturality
and Reading Formations: The Case of Mother Tongue and Latino
Literature in the USA), in Estudios (Venezuela) Click here to download
PDF
2003 Bruce, Dick, "Demetria
Martinez" A
Poet's Truth: Conversations with Latino/ Latina Poets. (Tucson:
U. of Az. Press)
2002 Conrad Martinez, Elizabeth. "Nuevas
voces salvadorenas: Sandra Benitez y Demetria Martinez." Reflexiones
ensayos sobre escrituras hispano americanas contemporaneas. Priscilla
Gac-Artigas, ed. (Fair Haven: Nuevo Espacio)
2002 Castillo, Debra and Socorro Tabuenca. "Solidarity:
Demetria Martinez" Border Women: Writing from la Frontera. (Minneapolis,
University of Minn. Press)
2002 Ikas, Karin Rosa. "Demetria
Martinez." Chicana
Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers. (Reno: U. of Nevada
Press)
2001 Argueta, Manlio "Lengua
e identidad en la novela Lengua madre, de Demetria Martinez." Istmo:
revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales Centroamericanos 2 (julio-deciembre)
2001 Gutierrez, Muhs, Gabriella Favela."Subjectifying
Entities/Emerging Subjectivities in Chicana Literature through the Literary
Production of Demetria Martinez and Norma Elia Cantu: Madres, comadres,
madrinas, ninas, madres, tias, abuelas y solteronas." Dissertation,
Stanford University.
1999 Manolis, Argie J. "The Witer
as Witness: An Interview with Demetria Martinez." Hayden's Ferry Review 24 (Spring/summer,
Arizona State University, Tempe)
1999 Aguinaco, Carmen. "Creative
Tension: How Latina Writers Make Sense of Two Worlds." U.S. Catholic 64:11
(Nov:34-35).
1998 Iversen, Kristen. "Poetry,
Politics and the Drama of the Unseen: An Interview with Demetria Martinez." Bloomsbury
Review 18.2 (Mar-Apr, 11-12)
Castillo, Debra A. "Barbed
Wire Words: Demetria Martinez's Mother Tongue." Intertexts 1.1 (Spring:8-24.)
1995 Martinez, Elizabeth. "In the Time of
the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez and Mother Tongue by
Demetria Martinez." The Progressive 59.7 (July:39)
1993 Perez, Daniel G. "La
internalizacion de la voz narrativa chicana en el trabajo de Demetria Martinez." Escruitura:
Revista de Teoria y Critica Literaria 18.35-36 (Jan-Dec, 133-140)
BOOKS:
2008 Gutierrez y Muhs, Gabriella. Communal
Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile. (Lexington Press)
1995 McCracken, Ellen. New Latina Narrative:
The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity. University of Arizona
Press, Tucson.
1995 Herrera-Sobek, Maria and Viramontes, Maria Elena
editors. Chicana (W)rites on Word and Film. Third Woman Press,
Berkeley
1995 Rebolledo, Tey Diana. Women Singing
in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature. University
of Arizona Press, Tucson.