Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists
Subtitle: Toward a Feminist Identity (Wor(L)Ds of Change, Vol 3)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780820424156
Subjects: Anthologies (multiple authors); Feminist fiction; Intellectual life; Mexican American women; Mexican American women in literature; Mexican Americans in literature; Hispanic American Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (American Literature); Fiction - General; 20th century; American fiction; Feminism and literature; History; History and criticism; Mexican American authors; United States; Women and literature; Sociology
Description: Contemporary Mexican-American women novelists - some of whom are moving toward a Chicana feminist construct - have produced very exciting work. Using the works of both Gloria Anzaldua and Elaine Showalter as theoretical frameworks, this study argues for a specific Chicana feminism whose roots are both in and outside the Mexican-American culture.

The authors included in Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists are Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Lucha Corpi, Margarita Cota-Cardenas, Roberta Fernandez, Laura del Fuego, Irene Beltran Hernandez, Mary Helen Ponce, and Estela Portillo Trambley.