Chicana Matters – serie
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21 produkter
Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
Essays on Chicana/Latina Literature and Criticism
Häftad, 2006
286 kr
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Although there have been substantial contributions to Chicana literature and criticism over the past few decades, Chicanas are still underrepresented and underappreciated in the mainstream literary world and virtually nonexistent in the canon. Writers like Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Gloria …
Shakin' Up Race and Gender
Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
Häftad, 2006
318 kr
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The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is it productive to consider only the differences …
With Her Machete in Her Hand
Reading Chicana Lesbians
Häftad, 2006
335 kr
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With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, CherrÍe Moraga and Gloria AnzaldÚa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience …
This Land Was Mexican Once
Histories of Resistance from Northern California
Häftad, 2007
285 kr
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The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Euro Americans. …
Fertile Matters
The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction
Häftad, 2008
277 kr
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While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her reproduction has been targeted as a major social problem for the United States. Due to fear-fueled news reports and public perceptions about the changing composition of the nation's …
Teatro Chicana
A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
Av Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
449 kr
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Winner, Susan Koppelman Award, Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies in Popular and American Culture, 2008The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre …
Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature
Häftad, 2008
283 kr
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2009 - Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesBlood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of …
Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory
A Novel
Av Emma Pérez
Häftad, 2009
318 kr
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Runner-up, Best Historical Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Micaela Campos, the central character, witnesses the violence against …
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature
Häftad, 2009
253 kr
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Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across a diverse range of Latina authors. Within this range, calls for a coalition are clear, but questions …
Performing Mexicanidad
Vendidas Y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
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Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. GutiÉrrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. In particular, she locates the analytical …
Making a Killing
Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
Av Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Georgina Guzmán
Häftad, 2010
362 kr
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Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for. The crimes have been poorly …
Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2009
318 kr
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In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that openly celebrates diverse experiences. Charting this transformation, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture looks to the late 1970s, …
Private Women, Public Lives
Gender and the Missions of the Californias
Häftad, 2009
285 kr
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Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, BÁrbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to the creation of gendered colonial relations in the Californias. She explores the function of missions and missionaries in establishing hierarchies of …
Lourdes Portillo
The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films
Häftad, 2001
362 kr
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Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state repression to AIDS, Portillo's films include: DespuÉs del Terremoto, the Oscar-nominated Las Madres: The …
Our Lady of Controversy
Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition"
Av Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Alma López
Häftad, 2011
340 kr
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Months before Alma LÓpez's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats …
¡Chicana Power!
Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
Häftad, 2011
331 kr
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The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos …
Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration
Engendering Transnational Ties
Häftad, 2010
277 kr
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Weaving narratives with gendered analysis and historiography of Mexicans in the Midwest, Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration examines the unique transnational community created between San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Jalisco, and Detroit, Michigan, in the last three decades of the twentieth …
Wild Tongues
Transnational Mexican Popular Culture
Häftad, 2012
285 kr
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Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, Wild Tongues is an ambitious, extensive examination of social order in Mexican and Chicana/o cultural productions in literature, theater, film, music, …
Wounded Heart
Writing on Cherríe Moraga
Häftad, 2001
315 kr
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In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer CherrÍe Moraga has been extremely influential in current debates on culture and identity as an ongoing, open-ended process. Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga's writing where race, gender, …
Beyond Machismo
Intersectional Latino Masculinities
Häftad, 2016
390 kr
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Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo-a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men’s attitudes and behavior-is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look …
Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me?
A Novel
Häftad, 2009
315 kr
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Runner-up, Best Popular Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010The golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish, the word has evoked a thousand poems and songs dedicated to the migrant's departure and hoped-for return. As such, the migrant becomes like the …
