TY  - GEN
T1  - Home girls : Chicana literary voices
A1  - Quintana, Alvina E., 1947-
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn646816244
AB  - ""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 CultureChicana writers in the United States write to inspire social change, to challenge a patriarchal and homophobic culture, to redefine traditional gender roles, to influence the future. Alvina E. Quintana examines how Chicana writers engage literary convention through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography as a means of addressing these motives. Her analysis of the writings of Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, and Cherrie Moraga addresses a multitude of issues: the social and political forces that influenced the Chicana aesthetic; Chicana efforts to open a dialogue about the limitation of both Anglo-American feminism and Chicano nationalism; experimentations with content and form; the relationship between imaginative writing and self-reflexive ethnography; and performance, domesticity, and sexuality. Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, Quintana explores the continuity found among Chicanas writing across varied genres--a drive to write themselves into being."--Publisher
OP  - 165
CN  - PS153.M4 Q56 1996eb
SN  - 9781439903636
SN  - 1439903638
SN  - 9781566393737
SN  - 1566393736
SN  - 1566393728
SN  - 9781566393720
KW  - American literature : Mexican American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Women and literature : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - American literature : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Mexican American women : Intellectual life.
KW  - Mexican American women in literature.
KW  - Mexican Americans in literature.
KW  - Littérature américaine : Écrivains américains d'origine mexicaine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Littérature américaine : Écrivaines : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Américaines d'origine mexicaine : Vie intellectuelle.
KW  - Américaines d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature.
KW  - Américains d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature américaine : Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Écrits de femmes américains : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - American literature : Mexican American authors
KW  - American literature : Women authors
KW  - Mexican American women in literature
KW  - Mexican American women : Intellectual life
KW  - Mexican Americans in literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Frauenliteratur
KW  - Mexicaanse Amerikanen.
KW  - Vrouwelijke auteurs.
KW  - Chicanos.
KW  - Hispanos.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -