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Lesbianism and Chicana Literature: Constructing an Identity

, 2010
The paper studies the construction of a specific lesbian identity in the literary production of Chicana lesbians, analyzing its feminist roots, its use of diverse literary forms, the role of theory and the importance of the body, as well as the presence of butch/femme roles; it later examines the devices employed by the authors to reject the persistent
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Other-Than-Human Movement

American Studies in Scandinavia
This article focuses on the work of American poet Lorna Dee Cervantes (1954- ), who is concerned with Chicana and Native American experiences in her poetry and is a transnationally oriented poet who is interested in “the treatment of borders and border ...
Elina Siltanen
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Interpreter, interlocutor, intermediary, traitress: An exemplary figure in chicana literature and culture

American and British Studies Annual, 2012
La Malinche, Cortés’ interpreter and both real and symbolic mother of the mestizo race, is a paradigmatic figure in Mexican and Chicano/a cultures, in which she comes to represent an embodiment of national and linguistic betrayal.
Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová
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(Un)safe Space in the Borderlands: Writing Queer Women of Color into History

Ilha do Desterro
This article intends to analyze how Xicana literature navigates (un)safe spaces in the Borderlands. As women, who, more often than not, are also queer, the literature of Xicana authors constantly struggles to find safe spaces in the Borderlands.
Thayse Madella
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How to be a Chicana Role Model, or How to be a 21st century Chicana [PDF]

, 2007
The Chicano Movement founded its origins on the basis of the existence of a clear-cut borderline between what was considered center/periphery. Nonetheless, said Movement, of an extremely inherent patriarchal character, promoted the maintenance of an ...
Ibarraran Bigalondo, Amaia
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NACCS 24th Annual Conference [PDF]

, 1997
Chicana y Chicano Scholarship: Un Compromiso Con Nuestras ComunidadesApril 16-19, 1997Radisson Hotelhttps://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/naccs_programs/1014/thumbnail ...
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
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Searching for Sexual Identity in a Homophobic Society : Hunger of Memory and Pocho [PDF]

, 2001
To begin speaking of sexual identity, whether heterosexual or homosexual,\ud assumes speaker and listener alike share the same definitions. This,\ud however, is not always the case, and because of this, we must formulate a\ud definition that ...
Rodriguez Kessler, Elizabeth
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Ana Castillo’s Appropriation of the Family Saga in So Far From God

American and British Studies Annual, 2016
Ana Castillo’s most critically acclaimed novel So Far From God (1993) can be considered a recent example of the family saga genre, as it reports the life story of Sofi and her four daughters.
Petr Anténe
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The Daily Texan [PDF]

, 2016
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University of Texas at Austin
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Los Angeles Logos. Literární ztvárnění města-hranice v chicanské próze // Los Angeles Logos. Literary representation of the city-frontier in Chicana/o fiction [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2017
In Chicana/o prose, namely the fiction of Helena María Viramontes, the artistic depiction of the city of Los Angeles becomes a synecdochic expression of the frontier space.
Markéta Riebová
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