Postmodern Vernaculars: Chicana Literature and Postmodern Rhetoric

by Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak

Postmodern Vernaculars examines the work of Chicana authors such as Gaspar de Alba, Anzaldúa, Cantú, Castillo, Cisneros, Mora, Pérez, and Viramontes in relation to theories of postmodernism. Working with a fluid concept of postmodernism, one that traces the term's evolution from the 1960s to the present, this book argues that Chicana literature is one vernacular, a regional variation of postmodernism. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarship that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082047634X
• ISBN13: 9780820476346
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 147 Pages