Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformati [Paperback]

Using narrative descriptions of the author's own lived-experience of her ethnic heritage, Martinez offers a systematic interrogation of the social and cultural norms by which certain aspects of her Mexican-American cultural heritage are both retained and lost over generations of assimilation. Combining semiotic and existential phenomenology with Chicana feminism, the author charts new terrain where anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic work may be pursued.Jacqueline M. Martinez is assistant professor of communication at Arizona State University at Tempe.Jacqueline Martinez's book deepens our understanding of how transformation and liberation are (and, can be) achieved at the level of individual consciousness. An important contribution to the field of communication-a privileging of Chicana feminist scholarship and what it has to offer to communication scholars' theoretical and methodological endeavors. Review of Communication

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 The Generative Nexus: A Chicana Feminist Crossing
Chapter 3 Speaking as a Chicana: Tracing Cultural Heritage through Silence and Betrayal
Chapter 4 Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands
Chapter 5La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Intra- and Intersubjective Transformations of Racist and Homophobic Culture
Chapter 6 Chicana Feminism and Struggle in the Flesh: Racist Assimilation and Cultural Recovery
Chapter 7 Chicana y Chicana: A Dialogue on Race, Class, and Chicana Identity
Chapter 8 Bibliography