Radical Chicana Poetics [Paperback]

Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzald?a, Cherr?e Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma P?rez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.Disclaimer, Captatio Malevolentiae, or Are Nos/otros Ready to Move On? A Note About Language and Terminology Introduction: Fearing the Dangerous Beasts: Radical Chicana Poetics PART I: DANGEROUS BODIES / TEXTS Juncture * Polycentricity 1. Gloria Anzald?a's Poetics: The Process of Writing Borderlands 2. Cherr?e Moraga's 'Theory in the Flesh' and the Chicana Subject Juncture ** Collective Creativity PART II: (RE)POSITIONINGS Juncture *** Nepantlism 3. The Nomadic Chicana Writer in Ana Castillo and Emma P?rez Juncture **** Antiacademicism 4. Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Sor Juana as Symbolic Foremother PART III. Global Interventions Juncture ***** 'Compostura' 5. Weaving Texts and Selves in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo Juncture ****** Transdisciplinarity 6. The Ju?rez Murders, Chicana Poetics and Human Rights Discourse Epilogue: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative and the Critic

Vivancos P?rez's book, Radical Chicana Poetics, is a superb theoretical analysis of the works of several Mexican American women authors including such luminaries as G. Anzald?a, C. Moraga, A. Castillo, E. P?rez, A. Gaspar de Alba, and S. Cisneros. Vivancos P?rez brilliantly explores how these writers posit through their splendidly written creative work new subjectivities and sexualities as well as challenge, subvert, and deconstruct older conceptualizations of Chicanas written in the early years of the Chicano Movement. Vivancos P?rez offers new and exciting perspectives on these writers and the reader will be greatly rewarded from the splendid insights articulated in the book. - Mar?a Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy, University of Cal3‡