Chicana Sexuality and Gender - Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

Informationen zum Autor Debra J. Blake is a lecturer in the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Klappentext A study of working class and elite intellectual Mexican and Mexican American women that focuses on their sexuality and identity, particularly their identification with four primary Mexican female cultural symbols: La Malinche, Aztec goddesses, the Virgin Zusammenfassung Compares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the fictional and artistic representations of academic-affiliated! professional intellectual Chicana writers. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial! and sexual identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Power of Representation: History, Memory, and the Cultural Refiguring of La Malinche's Lineage 13 2. Chicana Feminism: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Mexica Goddesses Re-membered 70 3. Las Historias: Sexuality, Gender Roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe Reconsidered 102 4. Cultural Anxieties and Truths: Gender, Nationalism, and La Llorona Retellings 144 5. Reading Dynamics of Power: Oral Histories, Feminist Research, and the Politics of Location 185 Conclusion 215 Notes 223 References 253 Index 273

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Debra J Blake, Debra J. Blake
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2008
• EAN: 9780822342946
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4294-6
• Seiten: 296
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Volkskunde