1st Edition
Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950
By Sam Lopez
Copyright 1998
152 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose 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... Read more
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I Politics of Place: Laredo as Case Study
Chapter II "Do they not remember the brave women?": Rethinking/ Rewriting Border Women in Leonor Villegas de Magnón’s The Rebel
Chapter III The Moon and the Unfortunate Lover: Folklore and Feminism in Jovita González’ Dew on the Thorn
Chapter IV The People Beyond the Mountains: Crossing Boundaries with Josephina Niggli’s Mexican Village
Conclusion: A Tolerance for Ambiguity
Appendix La Crónica
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Sam Lopez
