Can I read Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature (Chicana Matters) on EtoBox?

Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature (Chicana Matters) by Anna Marie Sandoval is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature (Chicana Matters) about?

Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, "Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas" explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across a diverse range of Latina authors. Within this range, calls for a coalition are clear, but questions surrounding the process of these revolutionary dialogues provide important lines of inquiry. Examining the works of authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Carmen Boullosa, and Helena Maria Viramontes, Anna Sandoval considers resistance to traditional cultural symbols and contemporary efforts to counteract negative representations of womanhood in literature and society.Offering a new perspective on the oppositional nature of Latina writers, Sandoval emphasizes the ways in which national literatures have privileged male authors, whose viewpoint is generally distinct from that of women - a point of departure rarely acknowledged in postcolonial theory. Applying her observations to the disciplinary, historical, and spatial facets of literary production, Sandoval interrogates the boundaries of the Latina experience. Building on the dialogues begun with such works as Sonia Saldivar-

Who reads Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature (Chicana Matters)?

Author

Anna Marie Sandoval

Publisher

University of Texas Press ; Combined Academic [distributor

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292793835

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History