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Chicana Creativity and Criticism: New Frontiers in American Literature » Read Now
by Maria Herrera-Sobek, Helena Maria Viramontes. 290 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...decade. It is our position that Chicana writers continue to offer some of the...equally exciting period for Chicana writers. A new publishing era was...
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(Out)Classed Women: Contemporary Chicana Writers on Inequitable Gendered Power Relations » Read Now
by Phillipa Kafka. 147 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Critical discussions of the works of Chicana authors are invariably grounded in issues of power and politics. This book examines how contemporary Chicana writers have explored the subjugation of Chicanas. While Chicanos and Chicanas often suffer from the oppression of European Americans, Chicanas...
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Critical discussions of the works of Chicana authors are invariably grounded in issues of power and politics. This book examines how contemporary Chicana writers have explored the subjugation of Chicanas. While Chicanos and Chicanas often suffer from the oppression of European Americans, Chicanas are additionally oppressed by a cultural system that subordinates them even further because of their gender. The first part of the volume discusses the major concerns and themes of Chicana writers in terms of the problems caused by inequitable gendered power relations. In the second, the proposed solutions of Chicana writers are presented. The final portion of the volume explores the relationship between Chicanas and other women writers and critics of color, Jewish feminists, and the mainstream feminist movement.
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Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology » Read Now
by Hector Calderon, Jose David Saldivar. 294 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings (Part I "Chicanas") » Read Now
by Asuncion Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, Nancy Saporta Sternbach. 288 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Daughters of Self-Creation: The Contemporary Chicana Novel » Read Now
by Annie O. Eysturoy. 172 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...distinctive perspectives that Chicana writers bring to literature, perspectives...this study, which examines how Chicana writers expand traditional literary...identity per...
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Show and Tell: Identity as Performance in U.S. Latina/o Fiction (Chap. Two "Invisible Chicanos: Gay and Lesbian Identities in the Fiction of Sheila Ortiz Taylor and John Rechy") » Read Now
by Karen Christian. 189 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

What makes John Rechy a Chicano writer? To be Latino, must writing have a touch of 'magical realism'? Can one talk of US Latina/o identity, considering the diversity of the Latina/o experience? Through the analysis of nine recent Latino/a novels, Karen Christian answers these and other questions...
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What makes John Rechy a Chicano writer? To be Latino, must writing have a touch of 'magical realism'? Can one talk of US Latina/o identity, considering the diversity of the Latina/o experience? Through the analysis of nine recent Latino/a novels, Karen Christian answers these and other questions, thereby adding a fresh, bold voice to the anti-essentialist debate surrounding ethnic and gender identity. Christian melds the theory of 'performativity' with the latest scholarship on ethnicity and ethnic literature to create a framework for viewing identity as a continuous process that cannot be reduced to static categories. Through their narrative 'performances', US Latina/o writers and their characters move among communities and identities in an ongoing challenge to the notion of Latina/o essence. This study is also among the first to examine trends across the spectrum of cultures represented in US Latina/o literature -- from Chicano to Cuban to Puerto Rican to Dominican. This book is essential for any serious student of Latina/o literature and identity.
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage ("Textual and Land Reclamations: The Critical Reception of Early Chicana/o Literature" begins on p. 40) » Read Now
by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Chuck Tatum. 297 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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European Perspectives on Hispanic Literature of the United States ("The Chicana: A Marginal Woman" begins on p. 130) » Read Now
by Genvieve Fabre. 160 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...World. Present day writers are very conscious...examining early Chicana writing Mena...Trevino* on the Chicana writers , on the definite...Modern Chicano Writers: A...
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Texas Women Writers: A Tradition of Their Own (Discussion of Chicana writers begins on p. 211) » Read Now
by Sylvia Ann Grider, Lou Halsell Rodenberger. 461 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender ("Women, Then and Now: An Analysis of the Adelita Image versus the Chicana as Political Writer and Philosopher" begins on p. 8) » Read Now
by Teresa Cordova, Norma Cantu, Gilberto Cardenas, Juan Garcia, Christine M. Sierra. 224 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Emerging from "Chicana Voices is a multifaceted picture of Chicanas--the impact they have had on U.S. history, culture, higher education, and their own communities.