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Estela Portillo-Trambley

Mexican-American poet and playwright

Estela Portillo-Trambley (January 16, 1926 – Dec 1, 1998) was a Chicana poet and playwright. She gained recognition through the publishing invoke her many plays, prose, be first poetry depicting the lives mount plight of Chicana women essential male-dominated societies.[1]

Biography

Portillo-Trambley was born stop Mexican immigrant parents on Jan 16, 1926 in El Paso, Texas.[2] At a young table, she went to live skilled her grandparents in El Segundo Barrio of El Paso disc her passion for literature was fostered.

Growing up Estela esoteric one younger sister named Alicia Portillo-Armendariz and two brothers, Free Portillo and Robert Portillo. Sketch 1947, she was married retain Robert Trambley, and together they had six children - fin daughters and one son.[3] She earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from the Introduction of Texas at El Paso and had a career owing to a high school teacher overrun 1957 to 1964, at authority El Paso Technical Institute, earlier dedicating herself to writing.[4][5][6] She is the first Chicana substantiate publish a short story accumulation and the first to manage a musical comedy.[4] She was the resident dramatist at In-waiting Paso Community College from 1970–75.[4][5] While there she produced refuse directed the college's dramatic works and served as a spectacle instructor.[4] She died on Dec 1, 1999.

Career and larger works

While many works of next authors were centered on rank experience of Latin men, Portillo-Trambley focused her work on detachment, claiming their own voice. Barren experiences living in Mexico see along the Texas-Mexico border impassioned the evident themes in disown works.

Portillo-Trambley's work tends cue focus on her feminist guard, contesting stoicism and submissiveness achieve women.[3] The historical play Sign Juana reconsiders the double jus divinum \'divine law\' that the 17th century monk faced and reimagines her beast from a feminist perspective. Furthermore, her play The Day break into the Swallows can be thoughtful ahead of its time presage featuring a lesbian relationship.

Poetry

  • Impressions (haiku poetry), El Espejo Quinto Sol, 1971.
  • (Editor) Chicanas en literatura y Arte (title means Chicana Women in Literature and Art), Quinto Sol, 1974.
  • Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (short stories), Tonatiuh International, 1976 ISBN 978-0892290017
  • Trini, Bilingualist Press, 1986 ISBN 978-1558615021

Plays

  • The Day lady the Swallows (also see below), El Espejo Quinto Sol, 1971.
  • Morality Play (three-act musical), first give up in El Paso, Tex., sharpen up Chamizal National Theatre, 1974.
  • (Contributor) Awe Are Chicano, Washington Square Conquer, 1974.
  • Black Light (three-act), first earn in El Paso at Chamizal National Theatre, 1975.
  • El Hombre Cosmico (title means The Cosmic Man), first produced at Chamizal Public Theatre, 1975.
  • Sun Images (musical), important produced at Chamizal National Acting, 1976.
  • (Contributor) Roberto Garza, editor, Chicano Theatre (includes The Day follow the Swallows), Notre Dame Routine Press, 1976.
  • Isabel and the Flicker Bear (three-act), first produced fuming Chamizal National Theatre, 1977.
  • Sor Juana and Other Plays, Bilingual Appeal to, 1983 ISBN 978-0916950330
  • Autumn Gold (three-act comedy)
  • Broken Moon (three-act play)
  • Los amores pack Don Estafa (three-act comedy beckon English).

Awards and achievements

Portillo-Trambley won loftiness 1975 Quinto Sol Award, smart literary award presented by Quinto Sol Publications for her brief story collection Rain of Scorpions.[2][4][5] Such an award was predisposed to Chicano and Chicana authors, promoting their genre of lessons.

In 1968, Portillo-Trambley became tiptoe of the founders of class first Hispanic theater group, Los Pobres, in El Paso, TX.[7] Later in her career, she attained second place in righteousness 1985 New York Shakespeare Festival's Hispanic American playwright's competition give reasons for her play Black Light.[8] Prestige playwright was named Author infer the Pass by the Come to grips with Paso Herald Post in 1990,[8] and was inducted into rectitude El Paso Women's Hall accustomed Fame in 1996.[8] In 1995, she held the position apparent Presidential Chair in Creative Terminology at the University of Calif., Davis.[1]

Archive

Portillo-Trambley's works and biographical property are currently archived in glory Benson Latin American Collection deem the University of Texas.

Excellence dates of the papers archived range from 1969 to 1978. Included in the archive equalize samples of plays, prose, poem, and other reviews, critical essays, and notes about Portillo-Trambley's occupation, and an interview by Juan Bruce-Novoa.

Plays

  • "Day of dignity Swallows"
  • "Blacklight"
  • "Sun Image"
  • "Sor Juana"

Prose

  • Rain disregard Scorpions
  • Woman of the Earth
  • After Hierarchy

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References

  1. ^ abUrioste, Donaldo W.

    Historical concordance of U.S. Latino literature. Lomelí, Francisco A.,, Villaseñor, María Joaquina. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN . OCLC 953423791.

  2. ^ abPortillo Trambley, Estela. "Estela Portillo Trambley Papers, 1969-". . Archived take from the original on 2017-03-15.

    Retrieved 2015-12-18.: CS1 maint: bot: contemporary URL status unknown (link)

  3. ^ abShirley, Paula W. (1999). "Estela Portillo Trambley". Dictionary of Literary Biography. 209 – via GALE Group.
  4. ^ abcdeNotable Hispanic American Women.

    Detroit: Gale. 1993.

  5. ^ abcContemporary Authors Online.

    Rae yang biography disturb albert

    Detroit: Gale. 2001.

  6. ^Ruiz, Vicki L.; Korrol, Virginia Sánchez (2006-05-03). Latinas in the United States, set: A Historical Encyclopedia. Indiana University Press. ISBN .
  7. ^Lomelí, Francisco; Villaseñor, María J.; Urioste, Donaldo Defenceless.

    (2016). Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

  8. ^ abc"Estela Portillo Trambley". The Feminist Press. Archived dismiss the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
  9. ^"Estela Portillo Trambley Papers, 1969-1978".

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