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Introduction to Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2017
Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue, introduction to Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), 1–22.
Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue
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Fuerza Feminista: Confronting Intersectional Data Violence by Archiving the Movement Against Antifeminicides in the Paso del Norte Region

open access: yesSexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 8, Issue 4, November 2025.
ABSTRACT For over 30 years, the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua bordering Texas and New Mexico has experienced and witnessed multiple forms of violence across its rural and urban regions. Communities are besieged with cartel and gender‐based violence and the saturation of international corporations that pay less than livable wages for workers in ...
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla   +1 more
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LA FIGURA DE ANA CASTILLO COMO REPRESENTANTE DE LA LITERATURA CHICANA FEMENINA

open access: yesRevista Internacional de Culturas y Literaturas, 2018
Los escritores chicanos han logrado abrirse paso en los cánones literarios de los Estados Unidos. Entre ellos destacan autoras como Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros o Ana Castillo, entre muchos otros, quienes testimonian en sus obras la lucha de miles de
Antonio Daniel Juan Rubio
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“Even if My Voice Shakes, I'm Still Going to Say It”: How Elementary Literacy Educators in Texas Enact Criticality Using Children's Literature

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 4, October/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Critical K‐12 educators who teach students to question the status quo have always faced censorship, rebuke, and potential loss of livelihood. This risk is particularly heightened in conservative areas, like Texas, where ideological opposition to equity often results in legislative threats to ban literature and censor curriculum that addresses ...
Saba Khan Vlach
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Positioning and Resistance: a Narrative Inquiry of Undocumented Mexican Domestic Workers in New York City

open access: yesNorteamérica
This study explores the life experiences and empowerment of five emblematic undocumented Mexican domestic workers in New York City (NYC). Employing identity as a conceptual framework, we delve into the intricate aspects of the participants' lives ...
Colette Ilse Despagne Broxner   +2 more
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Dialogical Ecofeminist Perspectives in “The Moths” by Helena María Viramontes and “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros

open access: yesEx-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2019
This article analyzes two well-known short stories by two prominent Chicana writers, namely Helena María Viramontes and Sandra Cisneros, from an ecofeminist perspective.
Imelda Martín-Junquera
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Lesbianismo y literatura chicana: la construcción de una identidad

open access: yesAnuario de Estudios Americanos, 2010
El artículo estudia la construcción de una identidad lésbica específica en la literatura de autoras chicanas, analizando sus raíces feministas, su empleo de diversas formas literarias, el papel de la teoría y la importancia del cuerpo, así como la ...
María Ángeles Toda Iglesia
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Translating Chicana Rap: Snow Tha Product

open access: yesTranscUlturAl, 2017
This project examines rap lyrics, interviews, and music videos by Chicana artist Snow Tha Product to show how rap has been culturally translated, performed, and appropriated by females in order to “flip the script,” or subvert the dichotomous model of ...
Adriana Onita
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Waging War on Nature: Ecospaces, Ethnoecologies and Chicana/o Writings

open access: yesEx-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2018
Since the rise of El Movimiento in the 1960s, Chicanas/os have negotiated space (urban, rural and the wilderness) as central to la raza’s struggles for legitimate citizenship in the U.S. Chicana/o ecowritings reach beyond attempts at self-definition, and
Sofia Emmanouilidou
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“A Detour in Longing”: Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Desire in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings and Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams

open access: yesRevista Estudos Feministas, 2018
Questions of gender and sexuality have oftentimes been portrayed as taboo in traditionalist conservative societies. Gloria Anzaldúa claims in Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) that “she [the lesbian of color] goes against two moral prohibitions: sexuality ...
Nathália Araújo Duarte Gouvêa
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