Home girls : Chicana literary voices

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Quintana, Alvina E., 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.
Subjects:	1900-1999 American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Mexican American women > Intellectual life. Mexican American women in literature. Mexican Americans in literature. American literature. Women and literature. American literature > Women authors. Mexican American women. American literature > Mexican American authors. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

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 Word, 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.