The Moths and Other Stories

by Helena María Viramontes

Overview

The Moths and Other Stories contains nine timeless masterpieces that explore the social, economic, and cultural impositions that shape women’s lives. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their central, unifying theme deals with the social and cultural values which shape women’s lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success. The subject of a growing body of critical work, every year new readers have been introduced to the power of Viramontes’ words.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611925968
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	03/31/1995
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	836,799
File size:	131 KB

About the Author

HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES is the acclaimed author of a short story collection, The Moths and Other Stories (Arte Público Press, 1995), and two novels, Under the Feet of Jesus (Dutton, 1995) and Their Dogs Came with Them (Washington Square Press, 2008). She is the coeditor, with María Herrera-Sobek, of two collections: Chicana Creativity and Criticism (University of New Mexico, 1987) and Chicana Rites: On Word and Film (1994). She is the recipient of the 2006 Luis Leal Award and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, and her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and adopted for classroom use and university study. Viramontes lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a professor in the Department of English at Cornell University.