Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices

"Home Girls makes an original, bold, and significant contribution to feminist studies, Chicana/o studies, and literature. Quintana accomplishes what few critics in Chicana/o studies have done: she applies different interpretive paradigms to her reading of Chicana texts, blending ethnography with literary criticism, ideological analysis with semiotics. Her reading of literary texts is rich in texture and detail."

--Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture

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