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Radical Chicana Poetics

Radical Chicana Poetics

by Kenneth A. Loparo
Radical Chicana Poetics
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ISBN-10:
134946578X
ISBN-13:
9781349465781
Pub. Date:
08/28/2013
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan US
ISBN-10:
134946578X
ISBN-13:
9781349465781
Pub. Date:
08/28/2013
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan US
Radical Chicana Poetics

Radical Chicana Poetics

by Kenneth A. Loparo

Overview

Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349465781
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 08/28/2013
Series: Literatures of the Americas
Edition description: 1st ed. 2013
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latina/o Studies at George Mason University, USA.

Table of Contents

Disclaimer, Captatio Malevolentiae, or Are Nos/otros Ready to Move On? A Note About Language and Terminology Introduction: Fearing the "Dangerous Beasts:" Radical Chicana Poetics PART I: DANGEROUS BODIES / TEXTS Juncture * Polycentricity 1. Gloria Anzaldúa's Poetics: The Process of Writing Borderlands 2. Cherríe Moraga's 'Theory in the Flesh' and the Chicana Subject Juncture ** Collective Creativity PART II: (RE)POSITIONINGS Juncture *** Nepantlism 3. The Nomadic Chicana Writer in Ana Castillo and Emma Pérez Juncture **** Antiacademicism 4. Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Sor Juana as Symbolic Foremother PART III. Global Interventions Juncture ***** 'Compostura' 5. Weaving Texts and Selves in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo Juncture ****** Transdisciplinarity 6. The Juárez Murders, Chicana Poetics and Human Rights Discourse Epilogue: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative and the Critic
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