With Her Machete in Her Hand : : Reading Chicana Lesbians / / Catrióna Rueda Esquibel.

With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience ha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Chicana Matters
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: A Chicana Lesbian Scholar’s Tale
  • Introduction: History
  • CHAPTER 1 Chicana Lesbian Fictions
  • CHAPTER 2 The Mystery of the Weeping Woman
  • CHAPTER 3 Black Velvet Fantasies: “The” Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination
  • CHAPTER 4 Sor Juana and the Search for (Queer) Cultural Heroes
  • CHAPTER 5 Memories of Girlhood: Chicana Lesbian Fictions
  • CHAPTER 6 Shameless Histories: Talking Race/Talking Sex
  • CHAPTER 7 Queer for the Revolution: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation
  • CHAPTER 8 Conclusion: With Her Machete in Her Hand
  • APPENDIX Toward a Chronological Bibliography of Chicana Lesbian Fictions, 1971–2000
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index