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Article: Voices of the City // Ana Castillo
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 24, 1996
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When, as a young Mexican-American, woman and poet, Ana Castillo
"looked for literature that spoke to me," she came up empty. "I
didn't find myself anywhere in print," said the Near West Side
native, whose search for identity and encouragement took her on a
geographic as well as stylistic odyssey.
Turning to Latin-American fiction for inspiration, she found a
wellspring of visionary storytellers to draw from. Moving to San
Francisco in 1985, she found a stronger support system than existed
back home. In idyllic New Mexico, where she moved in 1990, she wrote
her acclaimed novel So Far From God.
Finally, feeling "isolated and displaced," she moved back to
Chicago last year. Not that she ...