With Her Machete In Her Hand
Reading Chicana Lesbians
Catriona Rueda Esquibel
I am wildly ecstatic about this project and thoroughly grateful for Esquibel’s interventions in the cause of Chicana lesbian authors …now extending into this cutting-edge and highly readable critical text.’–Alicia Gaspar de Alba, UCLA, author of Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House: Cultural Politics and the CARA ExhibitionWith the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherre Moraga and Gloria Anzalda ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole community–lesbian and straight, male as well as female–who write about the Chicana lesbian experience. To create a first full map of that community, this book explores a wide range of plays, novels, and short stories by Chicana/o authors that depict lesbian characters or lesbian desire.Catrina Rueda Esquibel starts from the premise that Chicana/o communities, theories, and feminisms cannot be fully understood without taking account of the perspectives and experiences of Chicana lesbians. To open up these perspectives, she engages in close readings of works centered around the following themes: La Llorona, the Aztec Princess, Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, girlhood friendships, rural communities and history, and Chicana activism. Her investigation broadens the community of Chicana lesbian writers well beyond Moraga and Anzalda, while it also demonstrates that the histories of Chicana lesbians have had to be written in works of fiction because these women have been marginalized and excluded in canonical writings on Chicano life and experience.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780292709713 |
| Genre | Chicana/Latinx Interest; Literary Criticism |
| Publication Date | 02-Jan-06 |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 272 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | American literature; American Literature/ Mexican American Authors/ History And Criticism; American Literature/ Women Authors/ History And Criticism; Lesbians’ Writings, American; Lesbians’ Writings, American/ History And Criticism |
| BookID | 14722 |
