Radical Chicana Poetics

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

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