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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sandoval, Anna Marie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Chicana matters series.
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Mexican literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Feminism in literature.
Women in literature.
Comparative literature > American and Mexican.
Comparative literature > Mexican and American.
Table of 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.