Chicana Feminisms -

Chicana Feminisms

A Critical Reader
Buch | Softcover
408 Seiten
2003
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-3141-4 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
Presents various essays on Chicana feminist thought by scholars, creative writers, and artists. This title moves the field of Chicana feminist theory forward by examining feminist creative expression, the politics of representation, and the realities of Chicana life.
Chicana Feminisms presents new essays on Chicana feminist thought by scholars, creative writers, and artists. This volume moves the field of Chicana feminist theory forward by examining feminist creative expression, the politics of representation, and the realities of Chicana life. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, history, literature, and psychology, the distinguished contributors combine scholarly analysis, personal observations, interviews, letters, visual art, and poetry. The collection is structured as a series of dynamic dialogues: each of the main pieces is followed by an essay responding to or elaborating on its claims. The broad range of perspectives included here highlights the diversity of Chicana experience, particularly the ways it is made more complex by differences in class, age, sexual orientation, language, and region. Together the essayists enact the contentious, passionate conversations that define Chicana feminisms. The contributors contemplate a number of facets of Chicana experience: life on the Mexico-U.S. border, bilingualism, the problems posed by a culture of repressive sexuality, the ranchera song, and domesticana artistic production. They also look at Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the history of Chicanas in the larger Chicano movement, autobiographical writing, and the interplay between gender and ethnicity in the movie Lone Star. Some of the essays are expansive; others—such as Norma Cantú’s discussion of the writing of her fictionalized memoir Canícula—are intimate. All are committed to the transformative powers of critical inquiry and feminist theory.

Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Gabriela F. Arredondo, Ruth Behar, Maylei Blackwell, Norma E. Cantú, Sergio de la Mora, Ann duCille, Michelle Fine, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Rebecca M. Gámez, Jennifer González, Ellie Hernández, Aída Hurtado, Claire Joysmith, Norma Klahn, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Anna Nieto Gomez, Renato Rosaldo, Elba Rosario Sánchez, Marcia Stephenson, Jose Manuel Valenzuela, Patricia Zavella

Gabriela F. Arredondo is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Aída Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity. Norma Klahn is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coeditor of Las Nuevas Fronteras del Siglo XXI/New Frontiers of the 21st Century. Olga Nájera-Ramírez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coeditor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change. Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coauthor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, published by Duke University Press.

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Chicana Feminisms at the Crossroads: Disruptions in Dialogue 1

1. Cartohistografia: Continente de una voz / Cartohistography: One Voice’s Continent / Elba Rosario Sanchez 19

Response: Translating Herstory: A Reading of and Responses to Elba Rosario Sanchez / Renato Rosaldo 52

2. Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtemoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973 / Maylei Blackwell 59

Response: Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture /Anna NietoGomez 90

3. The Writing of Canicula: Breaking Boundaries, Finding Forms, Norma E. Cantu 97

Response: Sad Moview Make Me Cry / Ruth Behar 109

4. Literary (Re)Mappings: Autobiographical (Dis)Placements by Chicana Writers / Norma Klahn 114

Response: (Re)Mapping mexicanidades: (Re)Locating Chicana Writings and Translation Politics / Claire Joysmith 146

5. Chronotope of Desire: Emma Perez’s Gulf Dreams / Ellie Hernandez 155

Response: The Lessons of Chicana Lesbian Fictions and Theories / Sergio de la Mora 178

6. Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song / Olga Najera-Ramirez 184

Response: . . . Y volver a sufrir: Nuevos acercamientos al melodrama / Jose Manuel Valenzuela Arce 211

Translation of Response: . . . And to Suffer Again: New Approaches to Melodrama / Rebecca M. Gamez 220

7. Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures / Patricia Zavella 228

Response: Questions of Pleasure / Michelle Fine 254

8. Underground Feminisms: Inocencia’s Story / Aida Hurtado 260

Response: Grounding Feminisms through La Vida de Inocencia / Gabriela F. Arredondo 291

9. Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquachismo / Amalia Mesa-Bains 298

Response: Invention as Critique: Neologisms in Chicana Art Theory / Jennifer Gonzalez 316

10. Reproduction and Miscegenation on the Borderlands: Mapping the Maternal Body of Tejanas / Rosa Linda Fregoso 324

Response: The Sterile Cuckoo Racha: Debugging Lone Star / Ann duCille 349

11. Anzaldua’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics / Norma Alarcon 354

Response: Inscribing Gynetics in the Bolivian Andes / Marcia Stephenson 370

Contributors 377

Index 383

Reihe/Serie Post-Contemporary Interventions
Zusatzinfo 16 illus.
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8223-3141-1 / 0822331411
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-3141-4 / 9780822331414
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