Welcome to Oxnard : race, place, and Chicana adolescence in Michele Serros's writings /
Michele Serros is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard. Despite her status as a major figure in Chicanx literature, no scholar has written a book-length examination of her body of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, until now. Cristina H...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Latinx and Latin American profiles.
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| Summary: | Michele Serros is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard. Despite her status as a major figure in Chicanx literature, no scholar has written a book-length examination of her body of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, until now. Cristina Herrera, also from Oxnard, weaves in history, autoethnography and literary analysis to explore Chicana adolescence and young womanhood with a focus on place-making. Factoring in location, region and landscape, Herrera asks what it means to grow up Chicana in settings that carry centuries of colonial violence, segregation and everyday racism against Mexican American communities. She contends that Serros used her hometown to broaden understandings of who and what constitutes Chicanx communities and identities. By reading Serros’s work in tandem with her lived experience in the same setting, Herrera uncovers moments of adolescent subjectivity that could only be vocalized and constructed within this particular locale. Herrera pushes against the tendency to separate the author from the text and argues for a spatial understanding of Chicana adolescence, race, class and young womanhood. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0822948230 9780822948230 |