Title: Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists
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.
Subjects: American fiction, women authors, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Feminism and literature, Women and literature, Mexican american women, United states, intellectual life, Mexican American authors, Intellectual life, Mexican Americans in literature, History and criticism, Women authors, Feminist fiction, Mexican American women in literature, American fiction, History