Postmodern vernaculars
Subtitle: Chicana literature and postmodern rhetoric
By: Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.; Mexican American women -- Intellectual life.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Mexican American women in literature.
Description: "Postmodern Vernaculars examines the work of Chicana authors such as Gaspar de Alba, Anzaldua, Cantu, Castillo, Cisneros, Mora, Perez, and Viramontes in relation to theories of postmodernism. Working with a fluid concept of postmodernism, one that traces the term's evolution from the 1960s to the present, this book argues that Chicana literature is one vernacular, a regional variation of postmodernism. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarship that postmodernism itself has enabled - specifically recent developments in the fields of geography, ethnography, photography, history, and linguistics - Postmodern Vernaculars shows that Chicana literature participates in the ongoing reconstruction of postmodernism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-141) and index.