Encarnacion: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature

by Suzanne Bost

Book Overview

Encarnaci n takes a new look at identity. Following the contemporary movement away from the fixed categories of identity politics toward a more fluid conception of the intersections between identities and communities, this book analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity.The works of Gloria Anzald a, Cherr e Moraga, and Ana Castillo, in particular, enable us to examine how identities shift and intersect with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823230848
• ISBN13: 9780823230846
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"