UID:
edocfu_9959712587702883
Format:
1 online resource (406 p.) :
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16 illus.
ISBN:
9780822384359
Series Statement:
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Content:
Chicana Feminisms presents new essays on Chicana feminist thought by scholars, creative writers, and artists. This volume moves the field of Chicana feminist theory forward by examining feminist creative expression, the politics of representation, and the realities of Chicana life. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, history, literature, and psychology, the distinguished contributors combine scholarly analysis, personal observations, interviews, letters, visual art, and poetry. The collection is structured as a series of dynamic dialogues: each of the main pieces is followed by an essay responding to or elaborating on its claims. The broad range of perspectives included here highlights the diversity of Chicana experience, particularly the ways it is made more complex by differences in class, age, sexual orientation, language, and region. Together the essayists enact the contentious, passionate conversations that define Chicana feminisms.The contributors contemplate a number of facets of Chicana experience: life on the Mexico-U.S. border, bilingualism, the problems posed by a culture of repressive sexuality, the ranchera song, and domesticana artistic production. They also look at Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the history of Chicanas in the larger Chicano movement, autobiographical writing, and the interplay between gender and ethnicity in the movie Lone Star. Some of the essays are expansive; others—such as Norma Cantú’s discussion of the writing of her fictionalized memoir Canícula—are intimate. All are committed to the transformative powers of critical inquiry and feminist theory.Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Gabriela F. Arredondo, Ruth Behar, Maylei Blackwell, Norma E. Cantú, Sergio de la Mora, Ann duCille, Michelle Fine, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Rebecca M. Gámez, Jennifer González, Ellie Hernández, Aída Hurtado, Claire Joysmith, Norma Klahn, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Anna Nieto Gomez, Renato Rosaldo, Elba Rosario Sánchez, Marcia Stephenson, Jose Manuel Valenzuela, Patricia Zavella
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Chicana Feminisms at the Crossroads: Disruptions in Dialogue --
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CHAPTER ONE --
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Cartohistografía: Continente de una voz / Cartohistography: One Voice’s Continent --
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Response: Translating Herstory: A Reading of and Responses to Elba Rosario Sánchez --
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CHAPTER TWO --
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Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973 --
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Response: Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture --
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CHAPTER THREE --
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The Writing of Canícula: Breaking Boundaries, Forms --
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Response: Sad Movies Make Me Cry --
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CHAPTER FOUR --
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Literary (Re)Mappings: Autobiographical (Dis)Placements by Chicana Writers --
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Response: (Re)Mapping mexicanidades: (Re)Locating Chicana Writings and Translation Politics --
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CHAPTER FIVE --
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Chronotope of Desire: Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams --
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Response: The Lessons of Chicana Lesbian Fictions and Theories --
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CHAPTER SIX --
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Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song --
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Response: . . . Y volver a sufrir: Nuevos acercamientos al melodrama --
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Translation of Response: . . . And to Suffer Again: New Approaches to Melodrama --
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CHAPTER SEVEN --
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Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures --
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Response: Questions of Pleasure --
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CHAPTER EIGHT --
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Underground Feminisms: Inocencia’s Story --
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Response: Grounding Feminisms through La Vida de Inocencia --
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CHAPTER NINE --
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Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquachismo --
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Response: Invention as Critique: Neologisms in Chicana Art Theory --
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CHAPTER TEN --
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Reproduction and Miscegenation on the Borderlands: Mapping the Maternal Body of Tejanas --
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Response: The Sterile Cuckoo Racha: Debugging Lone Star --
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CHAPTER ELEVEN --
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Anzaldúa’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics --
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Response: Inscribing Gynetics in the Bolivian Andes --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822384359
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384359
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384359
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