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."
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1985.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2711597 |
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.