Title	Maritza Stanchich reads fiction and poetry (1995)
Watch Video	http://streaming.miami.edu:8080/ramgen/artscience/cariblitstudies/1995/1995_P13_04_stanchich.rm
Speaker	Stanchich, Maritza Giovanna
Host	Solomon, Mervyn
Summary	Mervyn Solomon introduces Maritza Stanchich, who spent two years in Puerto Rico. She reads a short story excerpt from "Problem Teenager" about a lower-middle-class 18-year-old woman in a dysfunctional home and with an abusive mother, who punishes her for staying out late with a man; then an excerpt from a short story in progress called "Letters" in which an uncle takes it upon himself to teach his 8-year-old nephew how to read. She reads her poems "Ma, I Fell in Love With a Puerto Rican Stand-Up Comic" "Okie Flowers" and "The Pleasure Pain Principle."
Subjects	Stanchich, Maritza Giovanna Caribbean literature Literature video Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Teenage girls -- Fiction Uncles -- Fiction Illiterate persons -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Poetry
Publisher	University of Miami English Department
Date	1995
Physical Description	13 min 26 sec, sound, color
Language	English
Web Site	http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalInitiatives/cwsi/
Collection Title	Caribbean Writers Summer Institute Archival Video Collection
Collection No.	1
Program	Program 13. Fiction and poetry readings, 1995
Copyright	http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/copyright.html
Digital ID	1995_P13_04_stanchich.rm
Format	application/vnd-rn-realmedia
Type	MovingImage
Source	VHS