Home girls
Subtitle: Chicana literary voices
By: Alvina E. Quintana.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781439903636
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Mexican American women -- Intellectual life.; Mexican American women in literature.; Mexican Americans in literature.
Description: Chicana writers in the United States write to inspire social change, to challenge 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 limitations of both Anglo-American feminism and Chicano nationalism; experimentations with content and form; the relationship between imaginary 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 discourse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-159) and index.