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Author:

Sandoval, Anna Marie.

Title:

Toward a Latina feminism of the Americas : repression and resistance in Chicana and Mexicana literature / Anna Marie Sandoval.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 129 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Mexican literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Feminism in literature.
Women in literature.
Literature, Comparative--American and Mexican.
Literature, Comparative--Mexican and American.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-122) and index.

Contents:

"Unir los lazos": braiding Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities -- Crossing borders and blurring boundaries: Sandra Cisneros re-visions the wailing woman -- "No dejen que se escapen": Carmen Boullosa and Laura Esquivel -- Acts of daily resistance in urban and rural settings: the fiction of Helena María Viramontes.

Series:

Chicana matters series

ISBN:

0292718845 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292718845 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008018453

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)