[Un]framing the 'Bad Woman' - Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels With a Cause

Klappentext One of Americäs leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that ¿frame¿ women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as ¿bad women¿ and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth. Zusammenfassung One of America’s leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that “frame” women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as “bad women” and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa, in Gratitude for Your Tongues of FireAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Activist Scholarship and the Historical Vortex of the “Bad Woman”1. The Politics of Location of La Décima Musa: Prelude to an InterviewInterview with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz2. Malinche’s Revenge3. There’s No Place Like Aztlán: Homeland Myths and Embodied Aesthetics4. Coyolxauhqui and Las "Maqui-Locas”: Re-Membering the Sacrificed Daughters of Ciudad Juárez5. Mapping the Labyrinth: The Anti–Detective Novel and the Mysterious Missing Brother6. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Inquisition Continues7. The Sor Juana ChroniclesEpilogue: To Your Shadow-Beast: In MemoriamNotesBibliographyReprint PermissionsIndex

Product details

• Authors: Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Alicia Gaspar De Alba
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2014
• EAN: 9780292758506
• ISBN: 978-0-292-75850-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories