Remembering Frida

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2013

Pages: 208

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New Chicano/a Studies Publication Now Available!

In the Chicana coming of age, Frida Kahlo embodied the whole notion of culture for Chicana women. She represented all that we valued: courage, activism , personal strength, familia, beauty and artistic creativity. Individually and collectively she became an imagined ancestor we not only wanted, but needed. Her iconic image, her paintings and her struggle as a woman inspired us and moved us forward in our own movimiento.

—Amalia Mesa Bains

Roberta Orona-Cordova’s Remembering Frida chronicles the life of Frida Kahlo and the impact she’s made to Chicana women.  The publication includes twelve original essays from a diverse group of authors along with questions for consideration and response to expand learning opportunities and to reinforce comprehension of the material presented.


Essay One: “Frida Kahlo: Revolutionary Woman, Artist and Teacher” by Amalia Mesa-Bains

Essay Two: “A Chicana Aesthetic: Imagining Self and Frida” by Lara Medina

Essay Three: FK Nopal en La Frente” by Maria Elena Fernandez

Essay Four:  “What is Familiar: Accidentes y Cirujía” by Greta Pullen
Essay Five: “Why I Paint Frida” by Emilia Garcia
Essay Six: “Y Unos Cuantos Piquetitos” by Antonia Garcia-Orozco
Essay Seven: The (Re)Framing of Frida: Buying into Kahlo’s Bisexuality" by Maricela DeMirjyn
Essay
Eight: “The Chicana as Tehuana: Rosa Covarrubias and the making of Frida Kahlo” by Sybil Venegas
Essay Nine: “Frida Kahlo’s Transcultural and Transnational Transcendence into the Chicana Experience” by Guillerma Gina Nunez
Essay Ten: “Frida: Mexico’s New Woman” by Charles Ramirez Berg
Essay Eleven: “Shattered Images: Taymor’s Frida and Artistic Mythos” by Marisa C. Garcia Rodriguez
Essay Twelve: “Frida” by Lavela


Roberta Orona-Cordova
Roberta Orona-Cordova is a professor in Chicano/a Studies at California State, University, Northridge. She earned her B.A. in Rhetoric and Literature from U.C., Berkeley; an M.A. from San Francisco State University; and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her teaching areas are creative writing, freshman composition, Mexican-American literature, and film history. The genesis of this anthology began in her summer writing workshop at the Le Rito Public Library in New Mexico—“Let’s Tell Stories.” Her four passions are reaching, writing, dancing, and spending time with her granddaughter.

New Chicano/a Studies Publication Now Available!

In the Chicana coming of age, Frida Kahlo embodied the whole notion of culture for Chicana women. She represented all that we valued: courage, activism , personal strength, familia, beauty and artistic creativity. Individually and collectively she became an imagined ancestor we not only wanted, but needed. Her iconic image, her paintings and her struggle as a woman inspired us and moved us forward in our own movimiento.

—Amalia Mesa Bains

Roberta Orona-Cordova’s Remembering Frida chronicles the life of Frida Kahlo and the impact she’s made to Chicana women.  The publication includes twelve original essays from a diverse group of authors along with questions for consideration and response to expand learning opportunities and to reinforce comprehension of the material presented.


Essay One: “Frida Kahlo: Revolutionary Woman, Artist and Teacher” by Amalia Mesa-Bains

Essay Two: “A Chicana Aesthetic: Imagining Self and Frida” by Lara Medina

Essay Three: FK Nopal en La Frente” by Maria Elena Fernandez

Essay Four:  “What is Familiar: Accidentes y Cirujía” by Greta Pullen
Essay Five: “Why I Paint Frida” by Emilia Garcia
Essay Six: “Y Unos Cuantos Piquetitos” by Antonia Garcia-Orozco
Essay Seven: The (Re)Framing of Frida: Buying into Kahlo’s Bisexuality" by Maricela DeMirjyn
Essay
Eight: “The Chicana as Tehuana: Rosa Covarrubias and the making of Frida Kahlo” by Sybil Venegas
Essay Nine: “Frida Kahlo’s Transcultural and Transnational Transcendence into the Chicana Experience” by Guillerma Gina Nunez
Essay Ten: “Frida: Mexico’s New Woman” by Charles Ramirez Berg
Essay Eleven: “Shattered Images: Taymor’s Frida and Artistic Mythos” by Marisa C. Garcia Rodriguez
Essay Twelve: “Frida” by Lavela


Roberta Orona-Cordova
Roberta Orona-Cordova is a professor in Chicano/a Studies at California State, University, Northridge. She earned her B.A. in Rhetoric and Literature from U.C., Berkeley; an M.A. from San Francisco State University; and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her teaching areas are creative writing, freshman composition, Mexican-American literature, and film history. The genesis of this anthology began in her summer writing workshop at the Le Rito Public Library in New Mexico—“Let’s Tell Stories.” Her four passions are reaching, writing, dancing, and spending time with her granddaughter.