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Contemporary Chicana poetry : a critical approach to an emerging literature /

Discusses 4 Chicana poets' "dilemmas of their dual relationship to American and Mexican societies and of their dual identity as Chicanas and as women writing in a contemporary setting."

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Main Author: Sánchez, Marta Ester.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1985.
Subjects and Genres:
Geschichte 1970-1985.
1900-1999
Geschichte 1970-1985
American poetry > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Mexican American women > Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Spanish poetry > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Spanish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Spanish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
Poésie américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique
Poétesses américaines d'origine mexicaine
American poetry.
American poetry > Mexican American authors.
American poetry > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Chicanos
Frauenlyrik
Lyrik
Gedichten.
Vrouwen.
Spaans.
Amerikaans.
Mexicanen.
United States.
Chicanos.
Poetry in English > Chicano women writers, 1945- - Critical studies
Poetry in Spanish > Chicano women writers, 1945- - Critical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
French equivalent / Équivalent français
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the context: gender, ethnicity, and silence in contemporary Chicana poetry
  • The birthing of the poetic "I" in Alma Villanueva's Mother, may I/? the search for a female identity
  • The Chicana as scribe: Harmonizing gender and culture in Lorna Dee Cervantes' "Beneath the shadow of the Freeway"
  • Prohibition and sexuality in Lucha Corpi's Palabras de mediodía/Noon words
  • The dramatization of a shifting poetic consciousness: Bernice Zamora's Restless serpents
  • Appendixes:
  • Poems from Bloodroot by Alma Villanueva ;
  • Poems from Alma Villanueva's Irvine Collection ;
  • Mother, may I? by Alma Villanueva.

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