Rebellion and Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and Sylvia Lopez-Medina's Cantora.(Critical Essay)
From: MELUS
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Date: 6/22/2000
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Author: McGarry, Richard; Sirias, Silvio
The Chicana "voice" in literature, according to Ramon Saldivar, comprises a discourse that creates "an instructive alternative to the exclusively phallocentric subject of contemporary Chicano narrative" (175). As Cordelia Chavez Candelaria reports, Chicana/ Latina and other women writers have struggled for centuries to attain the right "to express and assert the validity of woman-space and the textured zone of women's experience" (26). Over the last two decades, the body of work that ...
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