Friday March 26, 2010; Reading: 6:30 pm to 7:15 pm. Signing/Reception: 7:15 pm to 8:00 pm., Resistencia Books, 1801-A South First St.

Red Salmon Arts presents Blood Memory: a book reading and signing with Chicana feminists María Eugenia Cotera, author of Native Speakers Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, & the Poetics of Culture, and Emma Pérez, author of Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel

In her latest book, María Cotera offers an intellectual history situated in the “borderlands” between conventional accounts of anthropology, women’s history, and African American, Mexican American and Native American intellectual genealogies. At its core is also a meditation on what it means to draw three women–from disparate though nevertheless interconnected histories of marginalization–into conversation with one another. María Eugenia Cotera is Assistant Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is the author of People of the Border: The Thesis of Jovita González, and coeditor of Caballero, a novel by Jovita González.

The literary adventure by Emma Pérez takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. This novel is an intervention in queer history and fiction with its love story between two women of color in mid-nineteenth-century Texas. Pérez also shows how a colonial past still haunts our nation’s imagination. Emma Pérez is a Chicana historian, feminist theorist and creative writer. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is also the author of The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History and the novel Gulf Dreams.

Co-sponsored by The Center for Mexican American Studies (UT Austin) and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UT Austin).