Title: Postmodern vernaculars
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.
Subjects: American literature, English language, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Mexican American authors, Mexican American women, Mexican American women in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), Rhetoric, American literature, history and criticism, English language, united states
Places: United States