Zavella / Arredondo / Hurtado Chicana Feminisms

A Critical Reader
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8435-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 406 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

An anthology of original essays from Chicana feminists which explores the complexities of life experiences of the Chicanas, such as class, generation, sexual orientation, age, language use, etc.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zavella, Patricia

Arredondo, Gabriela F.

Hurtado, Aida

Klahn, Norma

Najera-Ramirez, Olga

Fish, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Chicana Feminisms at the Crossroads: Disruptions in Dialogue 1

1. Cartohistografia: Continente de una voz / Cartohistography: One Voice’s Continent / Elba Rosario Sanchez 19

Response: Translating Herstory: A Reading of and Responses to Elba Rosario Sanchez / Renato Rosaldo 52

2. Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtemoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973 / Maylei Blackwell 59

Response: Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture /Anna NietoGomez 90

3. The Writing of Canicula: Breaking Boundaries, Finding Forms, Norma E. Cantu 97

Response: Sad Moview Make Me Cry / Ruth Behar 109

4. Literary (Re)Mappings: Autobiographical (Dis)Placements by Chicana Writers / Norma Klahn 114

Response: (Re)Mapping mexicanidades: (Re)Locating Chicana Writings and Translation Politics / Claire Joysmith 146

5. Chronotope of Desire: Emma Perez’s Gulf Dreams / Ellie Hernandez 155

Response: The Lessons of Chicana Lesbian Fictions and Theories / Sergio de la Mora 178

6. Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song / Olga Najera-Ramirez 184

Response:. Y volver a sufrir: Nuevos acercamientos al melodrama / Jose Manuel Valenzuela Arce 211

Translation of Response:. And to Suffer Again: New Approaches to Melodrama / Rebecca M. Gamez 220

7. Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures / Patricia Zavella 228

Response: Questions of Pleasure / Michelle Fine 254

8. Underground Feminisms: Inocencia’s Story / Aida Hurtado 260

Response: Grounding Feminisms through La Vida de Inocencia / Gabriela F. Arredondo 291

9. Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquachismo / Amalia Mesa-Bains 298

Response: Invention as Critique: Neologisms in Chicana Art Theory / Jennifer Gonzalez 316

10. Reproduction and Miscegenation on the Borderlands: Mapping the Maternal Body of Tejanas / Rosa Linda Fregoso 324

Response: The Sterile Cuckoo Racha: Debugging Lone Star / Ann duCille 349

11. Anzaldua’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics / Norma Alarcon 354

Response: Inscribing Gynetics in the Bolivian Andes / Marcia Stephenson 370

Contributors 377

Index 383

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriela F. Arredondo is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Aída Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity.Norma Klahn is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coeditor of Las Nuevas Fronteras del Siglo XXI/New Frontiers of the 21st Century.Olga Nájera-Ramírez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coeditor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change.Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coauthor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, published by Duke University Press.