Research Catalog

Title

Phenomenology of Chicana experience and identity : communication and transformation in praxis / Jacqueline M. Martinez.

Author

Martinez, Jacqueline M., 1961-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xvii, 145 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Using narrative descriptions of the author's own lived experience of her ethnic heritage, this book offers a systematic interrogation of the social and cultural norms by which certain aspects of her Mexican-American cultural heritage are both retained and lost over generations of assimilation.

Series Statement

New critical theory

Uniform Title

New critical theory

Subject

• American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• American literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Mexican American women > Intellectual life
• Feminism and literature > United States
• Women and literature > United States
• Mexican Americans > Communication
• Mexican Americans in literature
• Feminist theory
• Feminism and literature
• Women and literature
• Identität
• Feminismus
• Literatur
• Erfahrung
• Chicana
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-141) and index.

Contents

The Generative Nexus: A Chicana Feminist Crossing -- Speaking as a Chicana: Tracing Cultural Heritage through Silence and Betrayal -- Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands -- La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Intra- and Intersubjective Transformations of Racist and Homophobic Culture -- Chicana Feminism and Struggle in the Flesh: Racist Assimilation and Cultural Recovery -- Chicana y Chicana: A Dialogue on Race, Class, and Chicana Identity.

ISBN

• 0742507009
• 9780742507005
• 0742507017
• 9780742507012

LCCN

00024819

OCLC

• ocm43434640
• 43434640
• SCSB-1136490

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library