Encarnación : illness and body politics in Chicana feminist literature / Suzanne Bost

Author:: Bost, Suzanne
Published:: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:: 1st ed.
Physical Description:: x, 234 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Feeling pre-Columbian: Chicana feminists' imaginative historiography -- Pain: Gloria Anzaldúa's challenge to "women's health" -- Medicine: Cherríe Moraga's boundary violations -- Movement: Ana Castillo's shape-shifting identities -- Conclusion. Rethinking body politics: Maya González and Diane Gamboa.

Subject(s):

American literature—Mexican American authors—History and criticism
American literature—Women authors—History and criticism
Diseases in literature
Human body in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Mexican American women in literature
Mexican Americans—Race identity
Feminism in literature
Feminism and literature—United States—History—20th century

ISBN:

9780823230846 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823230848 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823230853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0823230856 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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