With Her Machete in Her Hand - Reading Chicana Lesbians

Klappentext The first history of Chicana lesbian writing from the 1970s until today. Zusammenfassung The first history of Chicana lesbian writing from the 1970s until today. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPrologue: A Chicana Lesbian Scholar's TaleIntroduction: History1. Chicana Lesbian Fictions2. The Mystery of the Weeping Woman3. Black Velvet Fantasies: "The" Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination4. Sor Juana and the Search for (Queer) Cultural Heroes5. Memories of Girlhood: Chicana Lesbian Fictions6. Shameless Histories: Talking Race/Talking Sex7. Queer for the Revolution: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation8. Conclusion: With Her Machete in Her HandAppendix: Toward a Chronological Bibliography of Chicana Lesbian Fictions! 1971-2002NotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Catriona Rueda Esquibel
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780292712751
• ISBN: 978-0-292-71275-1
• No. of pages: 263
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Chicana Matters; Chicana Matters
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies