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A critical narrative review of the experiences of Latinas, Hispanic, or Spanish origin (LHS+) women in medical field using Latina/Chicana feminist perspective [PDF]
Medical Education OnlineWomen who identify as Latinas, Hispanic, or Spanish Origin (LHS+) are members of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the US. When we consider this fact regarding providing quality healthcare, we find that it is important to have a physician ...
Sacha Sharp +4 more
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Freak to queer bodies: affirming the grotesque in contemporary art [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyThis article analyzes artworks that employ the grotesque to challenge hegemonic discourses. It draws a parallel between bodies depicted in 19th-century freak shows and queer bodies represented in artistic productions from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.
Júlia Mello
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Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2023 This article explores the link between hospitality and power in two poems by contemporary Chicana writers Pat Mora and Sandra Cisneros, reflecting on how these two poems denounce the complicity of certain discourses and practices of hospitality with ...
Méliné Kasparian
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Textual Representations of Chicana Identity in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo or Puro Cuento
Odisea, 2017 Resumen: El principal objetivo de este estudio es el de analizar la representación textual de los distintos rasgos distintivos presentes en la producción literaria Chicana en Caramelo or Puro Cuento de Sandra Cisneros, publicada en 2002.
María Alonso Alonso
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«Guadalupe» del Teatro de la Esperanza: espejo de una realidad
Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2011 Resumo: O presente trabalho analisa a obra Guadalupe do grupo teatral chicano El Teatro de la Esperanza; o estudo mostra como esta obra reflete, como um espelho, a realidade social, política e cultural da comunidade chicana na sociedade norteamericana, e
Cristiano Silva de Barros
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Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2011 Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é situar dois romances de escritores chicanas contemporâneas – The Mixquiahuala letters, de Ana Castillo, e Paletitas de guayaba, de Erlinda González-Berry - frente a uma tradição literária espanhola, a picaresca.
Carla de Figueiredo Portilho
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Introduction to Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature
Journal 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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Chicana Memoir and the DREAMer Generation: Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us as Neo-colonial Critique and Feminist Testimonio [PDF]
Gender a Výzkum, 2017 Reyna Grande’s 2012 memoir The Distance Between Us exemplifies the ongoing influence of the Latin American testimonio on contemporary life writing by immigrants to the United States from the Southern hemisphere, in order to effect social change ...
Marion Rohrleitner
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Women’s Poetry that Heals across Borders: A Trans-American Reading of the Body, Sexuality, and Love
Feminismo/s, 2021 Drawing on the idea of literature as healing (Wilentz), this article examines the anti-dualistic restoring defense of the body, sexuality, and love in Angelou (African American), Cisneros (Chicana), and Peri Rossi (Uruguayan Spanish).
Núñez-Puente, Carolina
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The power of words in Denisa Chavez's Face of an Angel
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2000 The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of the Chicana voice, a voice that has struggled to rewrite her story in order to reinterpret the atrophied archetypes manifest in the male stories and Literature.
Ibarrarán Bigalondo, Amaia
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