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Crossing, Trespassing, and Subverting Borders in Chicana Writing

Crossing, Trespassing, and Subverting Borders in Chicana Writing

Holler, Debora
Von Bardeleben, Renate

Hardcover

Series: Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik, Book 75

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631834462
ISBN13: 9783631834466
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Feb 16 2021
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The border and border-crossing and its significance for the Chicana in a cultural, social, gendered, and spiritual sense are at the core of this book. The three oeuvres selected--Helena Viramontes' The Moths and Other Stories, Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters, and Norma Cantú's Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera--are eloquent examples of feminist Chicana writers who refuse to allow their lives to be restricted by the gender, social, racial, and cultural border and who portray how Chicana women rebel against the unfair treatment they receive from their fathers, husbands and lovers. Crossing and deconstructing the man-made borders means to leave behind the known territory and discover an unknown land, in the hope of finding a new world in which Chicana women have the same rights as white women and in which they can realize their self, develop a new mestiza consciousness and liberate themselves from patriarchal constraints and religious beliefs. The author shows how the newly won self-confidence empowers the Chicana to explore the opportunities this freedom offers.

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