Feminism on the Border - Chicana Gender Politics & Literature

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-520-20733-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

In this bold contribution to contemporary feminist theory, Sonia Saldívar-Hull argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. Grounding her work in an analysis of the novels and short stories of three Chicana writers--Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros, and Helena María Viramontes--Saldívar-Hull examines a range of Chicana feminist writing from several disciplines, which she collects under the term "feminism on the border." By comparing and defining literary and national borders, she presents the voices of these and other Chicana writers in order to show their connection to feminist literature and to women of color in the United States. This book provides one of the most comprehensive accounts of Chicana feminist writing available.

Saldívar-Hull draws on contemporary literary and post-colonial theory, as well as her own autobiography, or testimonio, to help her define "feminism on the border." Successfully uniting theory with lived social experience, she delineates many of the internal processes that must be acknowledged in order to access larger transnational and geopolitical literary movements. This book thus joins a body of scholarship within feminist theory, working at the intersection of identity politics and political praxis. Saldívar-Hull's close readings of Chicana literary texts are informed by a comparative and cross-cultural perspective that enables her to forge links to a geopolitical feminist literary movement that unites ethnic identity to global solidarity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saldivar-Hull, Sonia

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I
Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana

2
Chicana Feminisms: From Ethnic Identity to
Global Solidarity

3
Mestiza Consciousness and Politics: Gloria Anzaldua's
Borderlands I La Frontera

4
Mujeres en Lucha I Mujeres de Fuerza: Women in
Struggle I Women of Strength in Sandra Cisneros's
Border Narratives

5
"I Hear the Women's Wails and I Know Them to
Be My Own": From Mujer to Collective Identities
in Helena Maria Viramontes's U.S. Third World

Epilogue: "Refugees of a World on Fire":

Geopolitical Feminisms
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Sonia Saldívar-Hull is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.