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Kenneth A. Loparo
Radical Chicana Poetics

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Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.

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Disclaimer, Captatio Malevolentiae, or Are Nos/otros Ready to Move On? A Note About Language and Terminology Introduction: Fearing the ‘Dangerous Beasts:’ Radical Chicana Poetics PART I: DANGEROUS BODIES / TEXTS Juncture * Polycentricity 1. Gloria Anzaldúa’s Poetics: The Process of Writing Borderlands 2. Cherríe Moraga’s ‘Theory in the Flesh’ and the Chicana Subject Juncture ** Collective Creativity PART II: (RE)POSITIONINGS Juncture *** Nepantlism 3. The Nomadic Chicana Writer in Ana Castillo and Emma Pérez Juncture **** Antiacademicism 4. Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Sor Juana as Symbolic Foremother PART III. Global Interventions Juncture ***** ‘Compostura’ 5. Weaving Texts and Selves in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo Juncture ****** Transdisciplinarity 6. The Juárez Murders, Chicana Poetics and Human Rights Discourse Epilogue: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative and the Critic

About the author

Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latina/o Studies at George Mason University, USA.

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9781137343581 ● File size 1.6 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3091452 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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