Calacalandia

A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience

Edited by 

Louis G. Mendoza

&

Toni Nelson Herrera

Cover art by Nuvia Crisol Guerra.

ISBN 0-9717035-8-2 / 2007

Perfectbound / 224 pages / $15

“[I]f you really want to hurt me, talk bad about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity—I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself.”

– Gloria Anzaldúa

With the cyclical waves of anti-immigrant bashing, Latin@s are regularly targeted and labeled as outsiders. The writers in Telling Tongues speak against the simplistic notions upon which these public debates rely, and demonstrate the complexities of life as manifested in language usage by Latin@s.