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 ethnograp...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press
1996.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14bswfh |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : testimonio as biotheory
- Politics, representation, and emergence of Chicana aesthetics
- Classical rifts : the fugue and Chicana poetics
- The House on Mango Street : an appropriation of words, space, and sign
- Shades of the indigenous ethnographer : Ana Castillo's Mixquiahuala letters
- Orality, tradition, and culture : Denise Chavez's Novena narrativas and The Last of the menu girls
- New visions : culture, sexuality, and autobiography.