Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the context: gender, ethnicity, and silence in contemporary Chicana poetry
  • The birthing of the poetic "I" in Alma Villanueva's Mother, may I/? the search for a female identity
  • The Chicana as scribe: Harmonizing gender and culture in Lorna Dee Cervantes' "Beneath the shadow of the Freeway"
  • Prohibition and sexuality in Lucha Corpi's Palabras de mediodía/Noon words
  • The dramatization of a shifting poetic consciousness: Bernice Zamora's Restless serpents
  • Appendixes: Poems from Bloodroot by Alma Villanueva ; Poems from Alma Villanueva's Irvine Collection ; Mother, may I? by Alma Villanueva.