Josefina Niggli
Novelist, Author
1910 – 1983
Who was Josefina Niggli?
Josefina Niggli was a Mexican-born Anglo-American playwright and novelist. Writing about Mexican-American issues in the middle years of the century, before the rise of the Chicano movement, she was the first and, for a time, the only Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes; her egalitarian views of gender, race and ethnicity were progressive for their time and helped lay the groundwork for such later Chicana feminists as Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros. Niggli is now recognized as "a literary voice from the middle ground between Mexican and Anglo heritage." Critic Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez has written that Niggli should be considered on a par such widely praised Spanish-language contemporaries as Mariano Azuela, Martín Luis Guzmán and Nellie Campobello. She is thought to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her.
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- Born
- Jul 13, 1910
Monterrey - Also known as
- Josephina Niggli
- Josephine Niggli
- Josefina Maria Niggli
- Josephine
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Profession
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of the Incarnate Word
- Died
- Dec 17, 1983
Cullowhee
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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