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Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

Blake, Debra J.

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Series: Latin America Otherwise

Literary CriticismLatino StudiesWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822342944
ISBN13: 9780822342946
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 31 2008
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday Mexican American women would characterize their own lives in relation to the writers' radical reconfigurations of female sexuality and gender roles. To find out, Blake gathered oral histories from working-class and semiprofessional U.S. Mexicanas. In Chicana Sexuality and Gender, she compares the self-representations of these women with fictional and artistic representations by academic-affiliated, professional intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists, including Alma M. López and Yolanda López.

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