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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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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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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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Chicano Gangs/Chicana Girls: Surviving the "Wild" Barrio
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2014 The emergence and divulgation of a Chicana female identity is inevitably linked to the Chicana Movement, which favored the liberation and empowerment of the collective, long submitted to male dominance and social discrimination.
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
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Christ in Yaqui Garb: Teresa Urrea’s Christian Theology and Ethic
Religions, 2021 A healer, Mexican folk saint, and revolutionary figurehead, Teresa Urrea exhibited a deeply inculturated Christianity. Yet in academic secondary literature and historical fiction that has arisen around Urrea, she is rarely examined as a Christian ...
Ryan Ramsey
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Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2012 Christine Daigle. Jean-Paul Sartre by Candice Nicolas Anna Marie Sandoval. Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature by Yajaira M. Padilla Ruth Cruickshank.
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Epistemic Disobedience and Decolonial Healing in Norma Elía Cantú’s Canícula
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2015 Using the U.S.-Mexican border as the place of enunciation, Cantú’s autoethnobiographical novel insists on the materiality of the border, especially for those living on its southern side, while simultaneously deconstructing it as artificial - a line ...
Poks Małgorzata
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Homegirls, Hoodrats and Hos: Co-constructing Gang Status through Discourse and Performance
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016 Despite a growing literature regarding female gang membership, little is known about the ways in which gang-affiliated women negotiate the boundaries of gang membership.
Abigail Kolb, Ted Palys
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