Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-representationThe work proposes a critical approach to Chicana identity in literature, supporting the thesis that ethnic identity is constructed through the articulation of the literary characters’ multiple selves. The analysis of the works of Wilbur-Cruce, Cisneros, Ortiz Taylor, Castillo, Limon, and Martinez places identities at the intersections of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class, focusing on the characters’ projects of reconstructing their past. The notion of ‘Articulating Selves’ also promotes a way of assuming the subject’s agency, as the characters give voice to their visions of ‘woman’ as an active, dynamic subject. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 16 |
The Tradition of Autobiography | 29 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-representation Volume 89 of Articulating Selves Volume 89 of Austrian studies in English |
| Author | Astrid M. Fellner |
| Publisher | Purdue University Press, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 3700314175, 9783700314172 |
| Length | 181 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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