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Home Girls : Chicana Literary Voices by Alvina Quintana (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Chicana writers in the United States write to inspire social change, to challenge patriarchal and homophobic culture, to redefine traditional gender roles, to influence the future.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTemple University Press

ISBN-101566393736

ISBN-139781566393737

eBay Product ID (ePID)918440

Product Key Features

Number of Pages277 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHome Girls : Chicana Literary Voices

Publication Year1996

SubjectCaribbean & Latin American, Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Subjects & Themes / Women

TypeTextbook

AuthorAlvina Quintana

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN95-039751

Reviews"Home Girls makes an original, bold, and significant contribution to feminist studies, Chicana/o studies, and literature. Quintana accomplishes what few critics in Chicana/o studies have done: she applies different interpretive paradigms to her reading of Chicana texts, blending ethnography with literary criticism, ideological analysis with semiotics. Her reading of literary texts is rich in texture and detail." -Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal810.9/9287/896872

Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Testimonio as Biotheory1. Politics, Representation, and Emergence of Chicana Aesthetics2. Classical Rifts: The Fugue and Chicana Poetics3. The House on Mango Street: An Appropriation of Word, Space, and Sign4. Shades of the Indigenous Ethnographer: Ana Castillo's Mixquiahuala Letters5. Orality, Tradition, and Culture: Denise Chavez's Novena Narrativas and The Last of the Menu Girls6. New Visions: Culture, Sexuality, and AutobiographyNotesIndex

SynopsisExamines how Chicana writers engage literary convention through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography as a means of addressing these motives. Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, this book explores the continuity found among Chicanas' writing across varied genres., Chicana writers in the United States write to inspire social change, to challenge a patriarchal and homophobic culture, to redefine traditional gender roles, to influence the future. Alvina E. Quintana examines how Chicana writers engage literary convention through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography as a means of addressing these motives.Her analysis of the writings of Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, and Cherrie Moraga addresses a multitude of issues: the social and political forces that influenced the Chicana aesthetic; Chicana efforts to open a dialogue about the limitation of both Anglo-American feminism and Chicano nationalism; experimentations with content and form; the relationship between imaginative writing and self-reflexive ethnography; and performance, domesticity, and sexuality.Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, Quintana explores the continuity found among Chicanas writing across varied genres-a drive to write themselves into being. Author note: Alvina E. Quintana is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

LC Classification NumberPS153.M4Q56 1996