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In Far from My Mother's Home Bárbara Mujica examines
the realities of highly mobile societies in which individuals or even entire
populations move from one locale to another either to escape danger or to seek
solutions to problems. Successful Hispanic/Latino professionals often find
themselves abandoning their roots for only decades later to comeback and
appreciate the past that was left at the threshold of their outward journey.
Nearly all of her characters are in one way or another torn from their familiar
surroundings—their “mothers' homes.” Some, such as Doña
Francisca (“Francisca's Friends”), are strangers in their own
lands, isolated by circumstances. The exploration of the different ways in
which these characters relate to each other and to the demands of their
environment provides a unifying thread.
Bárbara Mujica is fascinated by the interplay of cultures in the Americas,
and believes this theme to be a constant in nearly all her writings:
“Perhaps, because I myself am a member of a multiethnic family, I am intensely
aware of how people of different cultures interrelate and how cultural biases
prevent us from understanding one another…”
Mario
Bencastro
Bárbara Mujica is author or co-author of more than fifty books on Hispanic culture, literature and language, among them Texto y vida: Introducción a la literatura española (1990), Texto y vida: Introducción a Ia literatura latinoamericana (1992), Antología de la literatura española, Vols. I and II (1991), the first two of a four-volume critical anthology, and Premio Nóbel (forthcoming), a critical anthology of Hispanic Nobel Prize winners. She has lectured widely in the United States and Canada and has given fiction readings in the Washington area.
Originally from Los Angeles, Bárbara Mujica did her undergraduate work at U.C.L.A. and the Universidad Autónoma de México. She has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America. She received her M.A. in French through the Middlebury program at the University of Paris and her Ph.D. in Spanish from New York University.
Bárbara Mujica, the author of the novel, The Deaths of Don Bernardo has written the
an acclaimed collection of short stories, Far
from My Mother's Home. Her fiction has appeared in several
anthologies, including Where Angels Glide at
Dawn: New Stories from Latin America, eds. Lori M. Carlson and
Cynthia Ventura,
intro. Isabel Allende (1990, paperback 1993), Two Worlds Walking, eds. C. W.
Truesdale and Diane Glancy (1994), and The
Secret: Stories by Chilean Women, ed. Marjorie Agosín (1 994), as
well as in magazines such as The Literary Review, The Antietam Review, Women: A
Journal of Liberation, Término,
The New Southern Literary Messenger, Plaza (Harvard University), Letras femeninas, and Nuestro.
In 1984 she
received a fiction reading grant through Poets and Writers of New York and The
Antietam Review. Two years later her story “Women” was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize. In 1990 her essay on bilingualism was named one of the 50
best op-ed pieces of the decade by The New York Times. In 1992 she won the E.
L. Doctorow International Fiction Competition for her story Xelipe. She has
been interviewed on numerous television and radio talk shows. She is a Full
Professor of Spanish at Georgetown
University,
where she teaches Spanish literature and directs El Retablo, a Spanish-language
theater group.
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