Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvii, 145 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Using narrative descriptions of the author's own lived experience of her ethnic heritage, this book offers a systematic interrogation of the social and cultural norms by which certain aspects of her Mexican-American cultural heritage are both retained and lost over generations of assimilation.

Series statement

1. New critical theory

Uniform title

1. New critical theory

Subject

1. American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
2. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
3. Mexican American women > Intellectual life
4. Feminism and literature > United States
5. Women and literature > United States
6. Mexican Americans > Communication
7. Mexican Americans in literature
8. Feminist theory
9. Feminism and literature
10. Women and literature
11. Identität
12. Feminismus
13. Literatur
14. Erfahrung
15. Chicana
16. United States

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. The Generative Nexus: A Chicana Feminist Crossing -- Speaking as a Chicana: Tracing Cultural Heritage through Silence and Betrayal -- Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands -- La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Intra- and Intersubjective Transformations of Racist and Homophobic Culture -- Chicana Feminism and Struggle in the Flesh: Racist Assimilation and Cultural Recovery -- Chicana y Chicana: A Dialogue on Race, Class, and Chicana Identity.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-141) and index.