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Informationen zum Autor Gabriela F. Arredondo, Aida Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, and Patricia Zavella, eds. Klappentext ""Chicana Feminisms" comes alive with theoretical and emotional responses from some of the most exciting thinkers in Chicana feminist social thought. This book is a truly momentous achievement. It will stand the test of time." --Laura I. Rendon, author of "Educating a New Majority: Transforming America's Educational System for Diversity" Zusammenfassung Presents various essays on Chicana feminist thought by scholars! creative writers! and artists. This title moves the field of Chicana feminist theory forward by examining feminist creative expression! the politics of representation! and the realities of Chicana life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Chicana Feminisms at the Crossroads: Disruptions in Dialogue 1 1. Cartohistografia: Continente de una voz / Cartohistography: One Voice’s Continent / Elba Rosario Sanchez 19 Response: Translating Herstory: A Reading of and Responses to Elba Rosario Sanchez / Renato Rosaldo 52 2. Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtemoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973 / Maylei Blackwell 59 Response: Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture /Anna NietoGomez 90 3. The Writing of Canicula: Breaking Boundaries, Finding Forms, Norma E. Cantu 97 Response: Sad Moview Make Me Cry / Ruth Behar 109 4. Literary (Re)Mappings: Autobiographical (Dis)Placements by Chicana Writers / Norma Klahn 114 Response: (Re)Mapping mexicanidades: (Re)Locating Chicana Writings and Translation Politics / Claire Joysmith 146 5. Chronotope of Desire: Emma Perez’s Gulf Dreams / Ellie Hernandez 155 Response: The Lessons of Chicana Lesbian Fictions and Theories / Sergio de la Mora 178 6. Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song / Olga Najera-Ramirez 184 Response: . . . Y volver a sufrir: Nuevos acercamientos al melodrama / Jose Manuel Valenzuela Arce 211 Translation of Response: . . . And to Suffer Again: New Approaches to Melodrama / Rebecca M. Gamez 220 7. Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures / Patricia Zavella 228 Response: Questions of Pleasure / Michelle Fine 254 8. Underground Feminisms: Inocencia’s Story / Aida Hurtado 260 Response: Grounding Feminisms through La Vida de Inocencia / Gabriela F. Arredondo 291 9. Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquachismo / Amalia Mesa-Bains 298 Response: Invention as Critique: Neologisms in Chicana Art Theory / Jennifer Gonzalez 316 10. Reproduction and Miscegenation on the Borderlands: Mapping the Maternal Body of Tejanas / Rosa Linda Fregoso 324 Response: The Sterile Cuckoo Racha: Debugging Lone Star / Ann duCille 349 11. Anzaldua’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics / Norma Alarcon 354 Response: Inscribing Gynetics in the Bolivian Andes / Marcia Stephenson 370 Contributors 377 Index 383...
