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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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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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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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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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Review of recent publications

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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‘Once you get the card you can do anything you want.’ Migrant Identities and Gender Transgression in Chicana Dramatic Literature

Odisea, 2017
: Issues of migration, frontiers and identity are recurrent in Chicano/a literature. In Real Women Have Curves the protagonists are conditioned by la migra as much as by race stereotyping and gender limits, living in a metaphoric frontera between ...
Marta Fernández Morales
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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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Alvina Quintana’s Home Girls:Chicana Literary Voices Alvina Quintana’s Home Girls:Chicana Literary Voices

Ilha do Desterro, 2008
After explaining that “Home Girls” is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to “women of color,” Alvina Quintana introduces herself as “a Chicana who thrives on the writing produced by [her] Chicana ‘Home Girls’”.
Leila Assumpção Harris
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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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