SOURCE: “No Country to Call Home: A Study of Castillo's Mixquiahuala Letters,” in Style, Vol. 30, No. 3, Fall, 1996, pp. 462–78.

In the following essay, Bennett provides an in-depth study of the dynamics of the relationship between Teresa and Alicia in The Mixquiahuala Letters.

I cannot say I am a citizen of the world as Virginia Woolf, speaking as an Anglo woman born to economic means, declared herself; nor can I make the same claim to U.S. citizenship as Adrienne Rich does despite her universal feeling for humanity. As a mestiza born to the lower strata, I am treated at best, as a second class citizen, at worst, as a non-entity. I am commonly perceived as a foreigner everywhere I go, including in the United States and in Mexico.

Ana Castillo, Massacre of the Dreamers

In Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters, the narrator struggles with the problem that Castillo describes...