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Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature: Chicana Matters

Autor Anna Marie Sandoval
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2009
Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across a diverse range of Latina authors. Within this range, calls for a coalition are clear, but questions surrounding the process of these revolutionary dialogues provide important lines of inquiry. Examining the works of authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Carmen Boullosa, and Helena María Viramontes, Anna Sandoval considers resistance to traditional cultural symbols and contemporary efforts to counteract negative representations of womanhood in literature and society.
Offering a new perspective on the oppositional nature of Latina writers, Sandoval emphasizes the ways in which national literatures have privileged male authors, whose viewpoint is generally distinct from that of women—a point of departure rarely acknowledged in postcolonial theory. Applying her observations to the disciplinary, historical, and spatial facets of literary production, Sandoval interrogates the boundaries of the Latina experience. Building on the dialogues begun with such works as Sonia Saldivar-Hull's Feminism on the Border and Ellen McCracken's New Latina Narrative, this is a concise yet ambitious comparative approach to the historical and cultural connections (as well as disparities) found in Chicana and Mexicana literature.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292721661
ISBN-10: 0292721668
Pagini: 149
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Chicana Matters

Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Anna Marie Sandoval is Associate Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

Cuprins

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. "Unir los Lazos": Braiding Chicana and Mexicana Subjectivities
  • 2. Crossing Borders and Blurring Boundaries: Sandra Cisneros Re-visions the Wailing Woman
  • 3. "No Dejen Que Se Escapen": Carmen Boullosa and Laura Esquivel
  • 4. Acts of Daily Resistance in Urban and Rural Settings: The Fiction of Helena María Viramontes
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

A comparative reading of literature by Mexicanas and Chicanas, including Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Carmen Boullosa, and Helena María Viramontes, that raises compelling questions about the very nature of cultural constructs in literature.