Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an Emerging Literature

by Marta E. Sanchez

Book Overview

In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term 'Chicana' refers here to women of Mexican heritage who live and write in the United States. The works of four contemporary Chicana poets---Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520058887
• ISBN13: 9780520058880
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"