Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices (Women in the Political Economy (Paperback)) - Softcover

Quintana, Alvina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566393736 ISBN 13: 9781566393737

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Examines how Chicana writers engage literary convention through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography as a means of addressing these motives. Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, this book explores the continuity found among Chicanas' writing across varied genres.

About this title

About the Author

Alvina E. Quintana is associate professor of English at the University of Delaware.

From the Back Cover

Chicana writers in the United States write to inspire social change, to challenge patriarchal and homophobic culture, to redefine traditional gender roles, to influence the future. Alvina E. Quintana examines how Chicana writers engage literary convention, through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography, as a means of addressing these motives. Her analysis of the writings of Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, and Cherrie Moraga addresses a multitude of issues: the social and political forces that influenced the Chicana aesthetic; Chicana efforts to open a dialogue about the limitations of both Anglo-American feminism and Chicano nationalism; experimentations with content and form; the relationship between imaginary writing and self-reflexive ethnography; and performance, domesticity, and sexuality. Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, Quintana explores the continuity found among Chicanas writing across varied genres - a drive to write themselves into discourse.

From the Inside Flap

"Home Girls makes an original, bold, and significant contribution to feminist studies, Chicana/o studies, and literature. Quintana accomplishes what few critics in Chicana/o studies have done: she applies different interpretive paradigms to her reading of Chicana texts, blending ethnography with literary criticism, ideological analysis with semiotics. Her reading of literary texts is rich in texture and detail."
—Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566393736
• ISBN 13: 9781566393737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165