With Her Machete in Her Hand Reading Chicana Lesbians

Name: With Her Machete in Her Hand Reading Chicana Lesbians
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ISBN: 9780292712751

ISBN-10: 0292712758

ISBN-13: 9780292712751

Edition: 2006

Authors: Catriï¿½na Rueda Esquibel, Catriï¿½na Rueda Esquibel

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"I am wildly ecstatic about this project and thoroughly grateful for Esquibel's interventions in the cause of Chicana lesbian authors ...now extending into this cutting-edge and highly readable critical text."-- Alicia Gaspar de Alba, UCLA, author of Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherri e Moraga and Gloria Anzaldu a ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 263
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Catriï¿½na Rueda Esquibel is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: A Chicana Lesbian Scholar's Tale


Introduction: History



Chicana Lesbian Fictions



The Mystery of the Weeping Woman



Black Velvet Fantasies: "The" Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination



Sor Juana and the Search for (Queer) Cultural Heroes



Memories of Girlhood: Chicana Lesbian Fictions



Shameless Histories: Talking Race/Talking Sex



Queer for the Revolution: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation



Conclusion: With Her Machete in Her Hand



Toward a Chronological Bibliography of Chicana Lesbian Fictions, 1971-2000


Notes


Bibliography


Index