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Author: Catrióna Rueda Esquibel Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292782105 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 263
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With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole community—lesbian and straight, male as well as female—who write about the Chicana lesbian experience. To create a first full map of that community, this book explores a wide range of plays, novels, and short stories by Chicana/o authors that depict lesbian characters or lesbian desire. Catrióna Rueda Esquibel starts from the premise that Chicana/o communities, theories, and feminisms cannot be fully understood without taking account of the perspectives and experiences of Chicana lesbians. To open up these perspectives, she engages in close readings of works centered around the following themes: La Llorona, the Aztec Princess, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, girlhood friendships, rural communities and history, and Chicana activism. Her investigation broadens the community of Chicana lesbian writers well beyond Moraga and Anzaldúa, while it also demonstrates that the histories of Chicana lesbians have had to be written in works of fiction because these women have been marginalized and excluded in canonical writings on Chicano life and experience.
Author: Catrióna Rueda Esquibel Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292782105 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 263
Book Description
With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole community—lesbian and straight, male as well as female—who write about the Chicana lesbian experience. To create a first full map of that community, this book explores a wide range of plays, novels, and short stories by Chicana/o authors that depict lesbian characters or lesbian desire. Catrióna Rueda Esquibel starts from the premise that Chicana/o communities, theories, and feminisms cannot be fully understood without taking account of the perspectives and experiences of Chicana lesbians. To open up these perspectives, she engages in close readings of works centered around the following themes: La Llorona, the Aztec Princess, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, girlhood friendships, rural communities and history, and Chicana activism. Her investigation broadens the community of Chicana lesbian writers well beyond Moraga and Anzaldúa, while it also demonstrates that the histories of Chicana lesbians have had to be written in works of fiction because these women have been marginalized and excluded in canonical writings on Chicano life and experience.
Author: Carla Trujillo Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 228
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Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries, manifestoes, reasons to believe."--Dorothy Allison "When I was selling books at a Chicana conference, I noticed book buyers were literally afraid to touch this anthology. I say now what I said then, 'Don't be scared. Sexuality is not contagious, but ignorance is.' If you've ever been curious, been there, been voyeur, been tourist, or just plain under-informed, misinformed, or unaffirmed, here is a book to listen to and learn from".--Sandra Cisneros
Author: Cynthia Azucena Quintero Publisher: ISBN: 9781124665559 Category : Languages : en Pages : 218
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This dissertation focuses on the coming-out process of Chicana lesbians as they are portrayed in novels written by Chicanas. Since the coming-out process distills issues of identity, a better understanding of Chicana lesbian identities will be gleaned. My research focuses on how the Chicana lesbian is marked as `Other" and how Chicanismo has muted her voice and marginalized her. It is the goal of this dissertation to voice the silences enacted on this segment of the population. Chapter One focuses on a genealogy of Chicana writing and examines how the Chicana has been traditionally portrayed in Chicano literature. Chapter Two introduces the theoretical frameworks--Judith Butler's theory of performance and Paula M.L. Moya's post positivist realist theory--which will be utilized to examine questions of identity. Chapter Three focuses on Sheila Ortiz Taylor's Faultline (1982) as an example of a coming-out novel that deploys Butler's theory of performance while trying to erase the gender binary. Chapter Four analyzes Terri de la Peña's Margins (1992) focusing on the heterogeneity of the Chicana lesbian experience and demonstrates that the coming-out process is also a heterogenous process that is never fully complete. This chapter deploys Moya's postpositivist realist theory of identity, showing that the socio-text of the novel influences in the construction of identities as tied to historical discourses while also pointing to the political consequences inherent in coming out. Chapter Five analyzes Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings (2003) showing that the creation of a space and a discourse is necessary in order for the Chicana lesbian to live as a lesbian in a community that is unwelcoming of her sexuality. What Night Brings open up literary space for Chicana lesbians as is evidenced by the young 11 year-old protagonist who is dealing with issues of sexuality. The agency bestowed to this young narrator in asserting a Chicana lesbian identity signals a shift in Chicano/a literature. Chapter Six is an Afterword that focuses on the space of Chicana lesbian literature, highlighting more recent literary works that have yet to be studied. All three creative pieces--Faultline, Margins, What Night Brings--focus on the coming-out process of the characters which is markedly different from a coming-of-age narrative because of the political ramifications inherent in voicing and embracing a lesbian identity. By charting the coming-out process in each novel, I argue that essential views of identity formation are not valid, and instead propose that the experience of the Chicana lesbian is heterogeneous, creating identities that are plural, dynamic, and in constant negotiation with the world.
Author: Emma Pérez Publisher: 3rd Woman Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 168
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Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood.
Author: T. Jackie Cuevas Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813594561 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 189
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Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification. Expanding on Gloria Anzaldúa’s classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the “borderlands,” Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a “post-borderlands” subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition.
Author: Carla Trujillo Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810133008 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
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What Night Brings focuses on a Chicano working-class family living in California during the 1960s. Marci—smart, feisty and funny—tells the story with the wisdom of someone twice her age as she determines to defy her family and God in order to find her identity, sexuality and freedom.
Author: Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137343583 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 365
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Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.
Author: Gloria Anzaldua Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822391279 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 377
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Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary, multicultural feminist movement. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, and children’s books. Her work, which has been included in more than 100 anthologies to date, has helped to transform academic fields including American, Chicano/a, composition, ethnic, literary, and women’s studies. This reader—which provides a representative sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career—demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. While the reader contains much of Anzaldúa’s published writing (including several pieces now out of print), more than half the material has never before been published. This newly available work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa’s life and career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences, writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism, pedagogy, and spiritual activism. The pieces are arranged chronologically; each one is preceded by a brief introduction. The collection includes a glossary of Anzaldúa’s key terms and concepts, a timeline of her life, primary and secondary bibliographies, and a detailed index.
Author: Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
Author: Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
Author: Carla Trujillo
Author: Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
Author: Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
Author: Cynthia Azucena Quintero
Author: Emma Pérez
Author: T. Jackie Cuevas
Author: Carla Trujillo
Author: Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez
Author: Gloria Anzaldua