Visions of the Female Subject in the Borderlands

• Authors: Maria-Cristina Ghiban Mocanu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Drawing on distinctions among concepts regarding the female experience, as well as on postcolonial theory, the proposed paper aims at identifying a series of specific features of the Chicano/a vision of the female subject. It also focuses on apparently irreconcilable differences between Chicano and Chicana literary strategies in dealing with feminine imagery, as well as on a taxonomy of female instances that could be configured in both literary and social spaces.

Keywords

EN

female subject; Chicano/a literature; feminism; méstizaje; indigenous imagery

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 286-303

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Maria-Cristina Ghiban Mocanu

• “Al. I. Cuza” University, 11, Carol I Blvd., Iași, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0046-1