Home Girls: Chicana Literary VoicesTemple University Press, 30 มิ.ย. 2010 - 176 หน้า "Home Girls makes an original, bold, and significant contribution to feminist studies, Chicana/o studies, and literature. Quintana accomplishes what few critics in Chicana/o studies have done: she applies different interpretive paradigms to her reading of Chicana texts, blending ethnography with literary criticism, ideological analysis with semiotics. Her reading of literary texts is rich in texture and detail." --Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture Chicana writers in the United States write to inspire social change, to challenge a patriarchal and homophobic culture, to redefine traditional gender roles, to influence the future. Alvina E. Quintana examines how Chicana writers engage literary convention through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography as a means of addressing these motives. Her analysis of the writings of Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, and Cherrie Moraga addresses a multitude of issues: the social and political forces that influenced the Chicana aesthetic; Chicana efforts to open a dialogue about the limitation of both Anglo-American feminism and Chicano nationalism; experimentations with content and form; the relationship between imaginative writing and self-reflexive ethnography; and performance, domesticity, and sexuality. Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, Quintana explores the continuity found among Chicanas writing across varied genres--a drive to write themselves into being. |
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The Fugue and Chicana Poetics | 30 |
An Appropriation of Word Space and Sign | 54 |
Ana Castillos Mixquiahuala Letters | 75 |
Denise Chavezs Novena Narrativas and The Last of the Menu Girls | 93 |
Culture Sexuality and Autobiography | 112 |
Notes | 143 |
Index | 161 |
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aesthetic alienation Ana Castillo analysis Anglo American awareness Borderlands Bridge Candelaria Castillo's challenge chapter Chavez Cherrie Moraga Chicana feminist Chicana literary Chicana literature Chicana poetry Chicana writers Cisneros Cisneros's Coatlicue concerns consciousness creative critics critique Denise Chavez difference discourse discussion dominant Esperanza essay ethnic ethnographic experience feel female Feminism feminist aesthetics Fredric Jameson Frontera Geertz's gender Gloria Anzaldúa House on Mango identity ideology indigenous interpretation language limitations live Lorna Dee Cervantes mainstream Mango Street Marta Sánchez Menu Girls mestiza Mexico Mi Reflejo Mixquiahuala Letters modes mother narrative Nisa Norma Alarcón Novena Narrativas oppression oral patriarchal perspectives poem poet poetic political position production readers reflects relationship represents role Saldívar Sánchez Sandra Cisneros self-fashioning sexual Shostak's social Spanish speak story struggle subordinate symbolic tensions Teresa Teresa de Lauretis Terry Eagleton textual tion tradition understand University Press Vendidas voices woman women of color writing