Radical Chicana Poetics [electronic resource] /
Pérez, Ricardo F. Vivancos.author.
Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Epigraph; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Disclaimer, Captatio Malevolentiae, or Are Nos/otros Ready to Move On?; A Note about Language, Terminology, and Structure; Introduction Fearing the "Dangerous Beasts": Radical Chicana Poetics; Part I Dangerous Bodies/Texts; Juncture ? Polycentricity; Chapter 1 Gloria Anzald ú a's Poetics: The Process of Writing Borderlands/La Frontera; Chapter 2 Cherr í e Moraga's "Theory-in-the-Flesh" and the Chicana Subject; Juncture ?? Collective Creativity; Part II (Re)Positionings
Juncture ??? NepantlismChapter 3 The Nomadic Chicana Writer in Ana Castillo and EmmaPérez; Juncture ???? Antiacademicism; Chapter 4 Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Sor Juana as Symbolic Foremother; Part III Global Interventions; Juncture ????? "Compostura"; Chapter 5 Weaving Texts and Selves in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo; Juncture ?????? Transdisciplinarity; Chapter 6 The Ju á rez Murders, Chicana Poetics, and Human Rights Discourse; Epilogue The Coyolxauhqui Imperative and the Critic; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.
Ethnology-Latin America.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature.
Sociology.
Poetry.
Latin American Culture.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literature, general.
Gender Studies.
Poetry and Poetics.