Authors:
- Draws on archival work undertaken at the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive in Austin, Texas
- First book to explore critically these contemporary Chicana authors alongside each other in a sustained way
- By engaging with a variety of disciplines, this project recognises the complex influences that affect the negotiations of intergenerational women in the Mexican American family
Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Negotiating Feminisms examines intergenerational feminism in Chicanx family life. It analyses literary representations of the ways that Chicanas negotiate feminisms in the family across generations, through the maintenance, contestation, and adaptation of traditional gender roles. Using an original theoretical lens of negotiation to read the works of Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros, this book unpacks intergenerational resistance to patriarchal oppression. This book shows how the works of Cisneros and Castillo articulate a politics of negotiation that critiques the gendered ideologies and roles of the family. In doing so, the book’s discussion not only engages with literary representations but also connects these representations to the contextual experience of Chicanx family life. This book calls for a rethinking of women characters beyond limited, and limiting, familial roles and uses the framework of feminist negotiation as a means to explore the empowering possibilities ofintergenerational female relationships.
Reviews
- Dr Larissa M. Mercado-López, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Fresno, USA
Authors and Affiliations
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Edinburgh, UK
Eilidh AB Hall
About the author
Dr Eilidh AB Hall is a Fulbright scholar and earned a PhD in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. A scholar of Latinx literatures and cultures, she is interested in exploring how feminist praxes are understood in fiction and non-fiction. She is co-jefa of The SALSA Collective, a multi-disciplinary research community for scholars interested in latinidades across the Americas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Negotiating Feminisms
Book Subtitle: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo’s Intergenerational Women
Authors: Eilidh AB Hall
Series Title: Literatures of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50637-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50636-0Published: 05 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50639-1Published: 06 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50637-7Published: 04 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-601X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 225
Topics: Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Comparative Literature, Culture and Gender