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Article: Ana Castillo. Psst ... I Have Something To Tell You, Mi Amor.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
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- July 1, 2006
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Ana Castillo. Psst ... I Have Something To Tell You, Mi Amor. San Antonio, Texas. Wings. 2005. $16. xvii + 72 pages. ISBN 0-916727-20-3
AN AUTHOR of rare talent and restless spirit, Ana Castillo rises once again to the occasion with the writing of two one-act plays published under the title Psst ... I Have Something To Tell You, Mi Amor. In this collection, Castillo taps plentiful artistic and activist wells to give aesthetic and visceral dimension to the real psychic and bodily violence endured by New Mexico-born and -raised Sister Dianna Ortiz while living and teaching in Guatemala in the late 1980s. Abducted, tortured, and raped by Guatemalan soldiers and ...