Additional Resources for So Far from God by Ana Castillo

Ferriss, Susan, Ricardo Sandoval, and Diana Hembree, editors, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement, Harcourt Brace, 1997, p. 288.

A recent biography of Chavez and the Farmworkers'
Union. Discusses his role in starting the Chicano/a
Movement.

Gonzalez, Maria, "Love and Conflict: Mexican American Women Writers as Daughters," in Women of Color: Mother- Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature, edited by Brown, Guillory, and Elizabeth, University of Texas Press, 1996, pp. 153-71.

Compares the work of Sandra Cisneros, Denise Chavez,
and Ana Castillo in terms of family, language, and
female identity.

Jones Hampton, Janet, "Ana Castillo: Painter of Palabras," in Americas, Vol. 52, No. 1, January/February, 2000, pp. 48-53.

The article casts Castillo as a verbal and visual artist
dealing with her ideas of turning forty.

McCracken, Ellen, "Rupture, Occlusion and Repression: The Political Unconscious in the New Latina Narrative of Julia Alvarez and Ana Castillo," in...