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Title

Postmodern vernaculars : Chicana literature and postmodern rhetoric / Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak.

Author

Mermann-Jozwiak, Elisabeth.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2005.

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Description

viii, 147 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Postmodern Vernaculars examines the work of Chicana authors such as Gaspar de Alba, Anzaldua, Cantu, Castillo, Cisneros, Mora, Perez, and Viramontes in relation to theories of postmodernism. Working with a fluid concept of postmodernism, one that traces the term's evolution from the 1960s to the present, this book argues that Chicana literature is one vernacular, a regional variation of postmodernism. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarship that postmodernism itself has enabled - specifically recent developments in the fields of geography, ethnography, photography, history, and linguistics - Postmodern Vernaculars shows that Chicana literature participates in the ongoing reconstruction of postmodernism."--Jacket.

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism
• English language > United States > Rhetoric
• Mexican American women > Intellectual life
• Mexican American women in literature
• Postmodernism (Literature) > United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-141) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : toward a Chicana postmodernism -- Ch. 1. Narratives of the border : postmodern hybridity, barbed wire fences, and Mestizaje -- Ch. 2. Performing identities : spatial metaphors and subjectivity in Anzaldua, Mora, and Viramontes -- Ch. 3. "True fictions" : Norma Elia Cantu's strategic realism -- Ch. 4. Little women meets The Flintstones : mixing genres and blending cultures in Ana Castillo's So far from God and Sandra Cisneros's "Little miracles, kept promises" -- Ch. 5. Desert women, Brujas, and Curanderas : Pat Mora's linguistic Mestizaje -- Conclusion : decolonizing the postmodern.

ISBN

082047634X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004027487

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library