Norma E.Cantu
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Norma E. Cantú currently serves as Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. She is the editor of a book series, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition, at Texas A&M University Press. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Author of the award-winning Canícula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, she is has just finished a novel, Cabañuelas and is currently working on another novel tentatively titled: Champú, or Hair Matters. and an ethnography of the Matachines de la Santa Cruz, a religious dance drama from Laredo, Texas.
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