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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Chicana literature"”.
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
… and cultural archetypes (Gonzalez 111-273). Chicanas, having a history of revolutionary action, recognized the contradictions of a movement that was fighting for civil rights and true justice, yet subordinated women. The representations of women in Chicana literature in the decades following …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… retextualizations of the Malinche figure in Chicana literature from 1973-1991. As Chicana feminists began to challenge their traditional, culturally sanctioned gender roles and to increase their political participation in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 70s, they faced gender oppression …
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Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature
… and presence in Chicanx and Native American literature and cultural production.
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… la Raza de Bronce the Bronze race) in their art, literature, and political discourse, Chicano activists and intellectuals distinguished themselves racially from white America and worked toward reunifying an indigenous culture that had been fragmented by colonization and diaspora. This discursive …
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Illustrations of Nepantleras: Bridge Making Potential in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and The Guardians
Chicana literature to date has extensively illustrated the process of identity construction—the development of mestiza consciousness—as the means through which Mexican American females may thwart the agents of oppressive patriarchal authority in their lives. While this highly theoretical and …
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Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer Chican@ Identity Struggles in the Chican@ Novel and in America
While efforts have been made to include Chican@ literature into the North American canon, works by Chicanas and queer Chican@s remain underrepresented. Meanwhile, Chicanas and queer Chican@s themselves still face racial, gender-based, and sexual oppression from dominant, hegemonic American social …