Main Battlegrounds and Crossroads: Social and Imaginary Space in Writings by Chicanas

Battlegrounds and Crossroads: Social and Imaginary Space in Writings by Chicanas

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Of interest to informed readers responsive to combined textual and cultural approaches to Chicano/a literature and literature in general, Battlegrounds and Crossroads weaves in various critical and theoretical threads to inquire into the relationship between intimate and public spaces in Chicana literature. Without claiming the borderlands as exclusive of the Chicana/o imagination, this book acknowledges the importance of this metaphor for bringing to view a more intercultural United States, allowing it to become inflected with the particularity of each text. The analyses of Chicana fiction, drama, and autobiography explore the construction of identity through the representation of social space and the transformation of literary space. For discussion of a diacritical territory this volume draws on a interdisciplinary practice that facilitates the journey from the most intimate spaces to the most public spaces of modernity, so that the aesthetic text yields its knowledge of the contingent historical circumstances of its production in material and existential terms. The apparent regionalism and localism of this literature is nothing but a reflection of the relationship between the local and the global, the private and the public, the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the ideological, the subversive and the mainstream. Each text stands by itself while it also reaches out to the sociopolitical imaginary for interpretation through an interdisciplinary methodology that is indispensable to do justice to a politicized aesthetics.
Request Code : ZLIBIO392234
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Year:
2003
Publisher:
Rodopi
Language:
English
Pages:
408
ISBN 10:
9042011963
ISBN 13:
9781417566747
ISBN:
9042011963,9789042011960,9781417566747
Series:
Portada Hispnica 15

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