Loida maritza perez biography of mahatma gandhi

Gandhi's commitment to political freedom turned him into a defender of rights, and yet he refused to base the peace and security of collective life on rights..

Loida Maritza Pérez, Danzy Senna, Dorothy West, and Chitra.

Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ana Castillo, Cristina García, and Julia Alvarez, she argues that the individual.

Gandhi's commitment to political freedom turned him into a defender of rights, and yet he refused to base the peace and security of collective life on rights.

3 The subtitle is borrowed from Loida Maritza Pérez's novel Geographies of Home ().

Through Rabindranath Tagore's writings on China, Mahatma Gandhi's history Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza Pérez.

Pérez, Loida Maritza 1963-

PERSONAL: Born 1963, in Dominican Republic; immigrated to United States. Education:Cornell University, graduated 1987.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Viking, 375 Hudson, St., New York, NY 10014.

CAREER: Writer and educator.

AWARDS, HONORS:New York Foundation for the Arts grant, 1991; Ragdale Foundation grant, 1994; Pauline and Henry Louis Gates fellowship, 1996; Recognized by El Diario as one of the fifty outstanding Latinas in the United States, 1999; residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Cottages at Hedgebrook, Villa Montalvo, and the Millay Arts Colony.

WRITINGS:

Geographies of Home (novel), Viking (New York,

NY), 1999.

Contributor to periodicals, including Bomb, Latina, and Callaloo.

SIDELIGHTS: Loida Maritza Pérez is a Dominican writer who came to the United States at a young age and who has lived in New York City and, more recently, in New Mexico.

She contributed to a number of periodical