Contemporary Chicana poetry : a critical approach to an emerging literature /

Discusses 4 Chicana poets' "dilemmas of their dual relationship to American and Mexican societies and of their dual identity as Chicanas and as women writing in a contemporary setting."

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sánchez, Marta Ester
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1985.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1970-1985.
American poetry > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Mexican American women in literature.
Spanish poetry > Mexican American authors > History and criticism
Spanish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
Spanish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
Poésie américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Poétesses américaines d'origine mexicaine.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry
American poetry > Mexican American authors
American poetry > Women authors
Mexican American women in literature
Chicanos
Frauenlyrik
Lyrik
Gedichten.
Vrouwen.
Spaans.
Amerikaans.
Mexicanen.
Chicanos.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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