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Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature
Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900â1950
Sam Lopez
- 144 pages
- English
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Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature
Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900â1950
Sam Lopez
About This Book
This book examines how Chicana literature in three genresâmemoir, folklore, and fictionâarose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years as well as their contributions to the genres in which they wrote. The women -- Leonor Villegas de MagnĂłn, Jovita Idar, and Josefina Niggliârepresent three powerful voices from which to gain a clearer understanding of women's lives and struggles during and after the Mexican Revolution and also, offer surprising insights into women's active roles in border life and the revolution itself. Readers are encouraged to rethink Chicana lives, and expand their ideas of "Chicana" from a subset of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s to a vibrant and vigorous reality stretching back into the past.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Politics of Place: Laredo as Case Study
- Chapter Two âDo they not remember the brave women?â: Rethinking/Rewriting Border Women in Leonor Villegas de MagnĂłnâs the Rebel
- Chapter Three The Moon and the Unfortunate Lover: Folklore and Feminism in Jovita GonzĂĄlezâ Dew on the Thorn
- Chapter Four The People Beyond the Mountains: Crossing Boundaries with Josephina Niggliâs Mexican Village
- Conclusion A Tolerance for Ambiguity
- Appendix La CrĂłnica
- Notes
- Bibliography