Feminism on the Border - Chicana Gender Politics and Literature

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List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I
Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana

2
Chicana Feminisms: From Ethnic Identity to
Global Solidarity

3
Mestiza Consciousness and Politics: Gloria Anzaldua's
Borderlands I La Frontera

4
Mujeres en Lucha I Mujeres de Fuerza: Women in
Struggle I Women of Strength in Sandra Cisneros's
Border Narratives

5
"I Hear the Women's Wails and I Know Them to
Be My Own": From Mujer to Collective Identities
in Helena Maria Viramontes's U.S. Third World

Epilogue: "Refugees of a World on Fire":
Geopolitical Feminisms
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

About the author

Sonia Saldívar-Hull is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

Featuring contemporary feminist theory, this book argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. It analysis the novels and short stories of three Chicana writers - Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, and Helena Maria Viramontes and a range of Chicana feminist writing from several disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Sonia Sald?var-Hull, Sonia Saldavar-Hull, Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Saldivar-Hull Sonia
• Assisted by: Sonia Saldívar-Hull (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2000
• EAN: 9780520207332
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20733-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Ethnic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Literary theory, Latin-American Spanish, Feminism and feminist theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General